Diane Werts

Happy anniversary to #NewCoke, the how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-iest possible cola-wars move (and prompt for some truly hilarious conspiracy theories) www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

Same thing happened in the old hometown. Guy who'd been here decades and owned a popular restaurant serving the north 'burb moneyed was sent "back home" for essentially no reason.

As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.

Fine with me. She's got guts.

The Disappearance of Miss Scott - Watch the Hazel Scott documentary now | American Masters | PBS Jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott was the first Black American to have their own television show.

Amazing eye-opener! Stream the "American Masters" doc "The Disappearance of Miss Scott" (thru March 22), about the jazz piano/singing star and '50s TV pioneer. Until her activism and the Blacklist killed her career. (Name-checks from Billie Holiday to Mickey Guyton.)
www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Opinion | Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind. (Gift Article) It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

"There is no evidence that Trump is a figure of deep thought or serious insight. There is no evidence that Trump is anything other than..an ego-driven creature of boundless envy and vicious overlapping resentments..on a grand tour of retribution against the public."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

I have lots of these Dukes stereo extravaganzas. There was quite the Dixieland revival in the '50s-60s, which mostly boosted Pete Fountain and Al Hirt.

19. Will Friedwald, The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums. No book I read this year brought me more joy or cost me more money in vinyl and CDs. It’s hard to hit the sweet spot between scholarship, enthusiasm and excellent taste but WF does it repeatedly here. A glorious swan song. CURTAIN.

Silly me, I thought they were in that pizza parlor.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

What, no Gritty?

Opinion | A Day of American Infamy (Gift Article) A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

"If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky ... "
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

Despicable.

So Tump is presented a letter from King Charles during a press conference. He doesn't read it aloud. He doesn't respond to what it says. (UK PM has to explain it invites him for a state visit.) I'm starting to think he's illiterate.

The WHCA responds: "This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States. It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps."

You said POOP

Show needs more Eddie

Not dead yet

lol

Not big stars then. BIG stars after.

Funny that the play-by-play guy ID'd Pete but not Kev.

Someone explain to Elon Musk that this is why 'regulations' exist.

Maybe he wants to count 3/5 of them

So, making us dumber is now a priority. Pretty soon we'll be as ignorant as . . . you know . . .

Here I am! Up to no good!
Machine took my quarter!