Late to the Party: The Raucously Funny Party of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

Lisa O'Hare pouts in front of Bryce Pinkham

Yesterday Eddie and I ventured forth into the bitter cold to see A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.  It was exceptionally fun.  Based ever so mildly on the old Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, it follows the story of one Montgomery (D’Ysquith) Navarro, as he sets out to reclaim his name (and possibly fortune) from the family that disowned his mother, who committed the sin of marrying a (gasp of indignation) Castilian.

Bryce Pinkham – so charming in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and so evil in Ghost (the Musical – don’t ask) plays the charming Monty Navarro.  Stymied at the chance to claim his family name and make even a modest income, he sets about to claim the family fortune and Lordship via a murderous route.

In his way stay 8 heirs to the family fortune – all played (for their rather short stage presence) by Jefferson Mays.  Mr. Mays manages to change costumes and personas in the blink of an eye.  And Monty Navarro manages to extinguish them just as quickly.  Serial carnage has rarely been so enjoyable to watch.

It is set charmingly within a secondary stage upon the stage, so that the story and the songs can go on, while the scene is set for the next “accident”.   And yet, the dispatch of the denizens of D”Ysquith Manor is not the only plot.  That might make it a tedious, if humerous adventure.

No, there is a love interest.  In fact two love interests. Monty begins his quest in order to claim the affections of Sibella Hallward – Lisa O’Hare.  Sibella has given her hand in marriage to another, but the rest of her she serves up to Monty regularly.  

Joanna Glushak, Lauren Worsham, Bryce Pinkham, LIsa O'Hare and Jefferson Mays

As he works his way through the D’Ysquith, Monty is entranced by the young and beautiful Phoebe D’Ysquith (Lauren Worsham - charming).  Luckily for Phoebe, she sits even lower on the inheritance totem pole, he can pursue her romantically rather than plotting her demise.

The music of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is catchy and fun, if a bit Music Hall.  It captures the spirit of fun, the setting of the piece without being typical.

The reviews for this are correct, it is a hoot.

A Wonderful Thanksgiving

Eddie made a great bird last night and we had a few guests for a great Thanksgiving.  I should have taken pictures, but it was too yummy.  He brined it for a day or so and it was the juiciest bird I've ever had.  It was great.
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So... since I have no pictures of it, I will put up some pictures of the General Tucumseh Sherman Statue right on Central Park South and Fifth Ave.
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Most of you have seen it before, but it was always covered in bird crap.  Well, they cleaned it up, replated it (and set little golden spikes so pigeons don't land on it).  It looks great.
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For those of you not familiar with General Sherman, he is often painted as a horrible man, particularly in the lands that precipitated the American Civil War and most particularly in Georgia.  General Sherman decided, as a matter of war, to divide the rebelling Southern Slave States in two by marching from Union territory through Georgia.  Along the way he leveled most of the items in his path.  It was General Sherman who took and burned Atlanta (as portrayed in Gone With The Wind).
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He ended his first March in Savannah, but didn't burn the city as it was uniquely beautiful, and he had already accomplished his goal (of dividing the slave states).
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General Sherman ultimately accepted the surrender of Jefferson Davis - President (by acclamation) of the slave states that rebelled and called "champion of a slave society and embodied the values of the planter class," and during the rebels' convention.

If I loved Pope Francis any more... well, I would have to convert

Pope Francis has release his first Evangelii Gaudium.  I'll let the Reuters explain (can't find the Reuters article, but here is the LINK to a New York Times article on the subject...).  Here is the LINK to the official Vatican Translation of Evangelii Gaudium document (means Joy of the Gospel)
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(Reuters) - Pope Francis called for renewal of the Roman Catholic Church and attacked unfettered capitalism as "a new tyranny", urging global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality in the first major work he has authored alone as pontiff.

The 84-page document, known as an apostolic exhortation, amounted to an official platform for his papacy, building on views he has aired in sermons and remarks since he became the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years in March.

In it, Francis went further than previous comments criticizing the global economic system, attacking the "idolatry of money" and beseeching politicians to guarantee all citizens "dignified work, education and healthcare".

He also called on rich people to share their wealth. "Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills," Francis wrote in the document issued on Tuesday.

"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses 2 points?"

Some Good Ecological News

Bad news flows downhill at great speed, gathering force and overcoming most everything in its path.  So for a moment, let's celebrate come good news.
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For those of you that don't know where the Channel Islands are, they lie just West North West of Los Angeles - just off the coast just off Ventura and Santa Barbara.  There are 3 main ones - and a small one - that are a national park.  Despite the islands' proximity to people and their value if they were developed, the are in a near "natural" state.  I say near natural because there once was grazing and farming on the largest of them many years ago.
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In fact, the agricultural development is what lead to the original decline of the Channel Island Fox.  But with conversation efforts, it has bounced back.

The Channel Island Fox presents no threat to dogs or cats or chickens, since it is stuck way out on the Channel islands (unlike wild wolf reintroductions).  They are part of the natural ecosystem, hunting rats, rabbits and other small animals - some native and some that were introduced with farming.
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To visit theChannel Islands, there is a great daily ferry to the closest island (Anacapa) from Ventura.  It allows for a nice day hike on Anacapa Island (the smallest).
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Technically (i.e. in a geographic / geological sense) Santa Catalina and San Clemente islands are also part of the Channel Islands, but aren't referred to as such.  Catalina has a small city (Avalon) and an extra port (Twin Harbors).  It is far from natural.  There are a few herds of buffalo / bison on the island.  Brought there for filming movies and now, generations later, still prospering.  The city also has dogs and cats, which screw with island ecology.
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San Clemente Island was a Navy bombing range for years and year.  There is a semi-indigenous goat species (San Clemente Goats) that have a heritage blood line - since they were brought from Spain hundreds of years ago.  They are now being raised in a few places (including Nebraska, and New York) to provide disease resistant blood lines into domesticated goat breeds.  If I was ever going to raise an animal - it would be the San Clemente Goats - they are so cute!)

They Might As Well Have Spelled It as ... Detali

If Ed saw the image below in the New York Times, and the detail section was spelled (or spelt) DETALI, it would catch his eye like a searchlight.
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And yet for me, the spelling is superfluous (as most readers can attest).  However the lower map, with the section marked detail burns into my mind.  I can't ignore it!
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You see the section marked "detail" is NOT the detail.  Well, some of it is, but the box is larger than it should.
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The actual detailed map is taller than wide, the opposite of the proposed "detail".  And the proposed detail has more of the Sea of Japan and nation of Japan than is in the actual detail.
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Come on, how hard it is to fix the little friggin' box!

Iran Deal is a Big Deal

The deal with Iran is a great big deal, and is therefore causing a great deal of hand wringing.  In essence (details here in simple terms, and more detailed here, same details but with negative spin here), it is  that Iran (1) limits the strength of enrichment to peaceful levels, (2) removes the capabilities to enrich above 5% , (3) neutralizes stocks that are enriched to 20% and (4) allows inspections.
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It does with the carrot of reduced sanctions for 6 months while a more robust agreement is negotiated.
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It has Israel and the Saudi Arabia / Gulf nations in a tizzy because we aren't sending Americans to die for them.  (Yeah, I know, that is harsh, but kind of the truth...)  Israel doesn't believe Iran, will never believe Iran and thinks the only answer is to blow up all their nuclear capabilities and possible capabilities and anything they have buried or might have buried anywhere.  So Israel is kind of the Dick Cheney of the Middle-East.  Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states don't want us around, but even more don't want us to get along with Iran.  They are kind of the Al Sharpton of the Middle East, the man is always against them... until he leaves.
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But for America, it's a good deal.  You can tell that because even the Republicans - who want Obama to fail more than almost anything else, are tentatively resigned to it*.  Tentatively resigned to it!  Kids, this is a group that shut down the government over giving health care to poor people and paying the bills they racked up.  Tentatively resigned to it is a huge ass endorsement!!
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The best thing the Iranians could possible do here is make this work.  And so they probably won't.  This is, diplomatically, the gang that can't shoot straight.  But if this works, it would set America on track to make American policy based on American Interests (not Israeli Interests).  With a desire to pivot to Asia, sufficiency in energy and an Israeli government is that racist and an Israeli Prime Minister who goes out of his way to show his personal disgust with President Obama - a little give here and a little help in Afghanistan (where we both hate the Taliban) would hurry America out of the region.

**Fox News quote

An Ashford Christmas Story

Once Upon a Time...
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There was a dog who had his very own spot in his very own house.  It was a spot where he laid whenever he was in a good mood.  It was his favorite spot.  From there he could relax, look over the front room and past that out the window over the city.  The people, the other dogs.. it was all in his domain.
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The problem was, every year, once a year, his lying down spot was corrupted.  They took the chair away from his spot, and he would have to lay on the floor.
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But he could only lay on the floor for a few stolen minutes before a tree was put up.  Not a real tree mind you, but a Christmas tree.  Technically, it was real-ish.  But the tree had already been cut, and they slowly died.  They weren't even worth marking.  The smell of tree faded over time.  For a dog, the fading of the smell was the same as the limbs drying out for people.
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And, for some reason, it's branches laid out lower and lower so he couldn't lie there.  And then the space filled out with presents.  The presents were someone exciting to the people, but they didn't usually smell and they were boring for him.
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And then, one Christmas, a fat man named Santa Claus came by and asked what he wanted for Christmas.  For that one time a year when they took away his spot.
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And he asked for his spot.  Some way for his spot and Christmas to co-exist.
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Well the Santa thought and thought and finally said, "Okay, next Christmas we will have the tree AND your spot in the same place."  And Ashford thought, "Right.  We'll see."
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But Santa was true to his word christmas 2005.
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Ashford and the Tree sharing his spot.  (Trevor at 6 months is walking by...)

Bishop Paprocki - Meet Pope Francis...

Pope Francis July 2013: "If someone is gay, and searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to Judge?"
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Pope Francis September 2013: "We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.  It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time." ... "The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has save you, and the ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all."
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Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Illinois November 20th, 2013: Let's Have a Holy HoeDown and Exorcism, cuz we all know God hates the Fags!  ( He held an exorcism as the Governor signed the Same Sex Marriage Law - you know, because the Pope was wrong(?), misquoted(?), not in Springfield Illinois to smack him upside his head (?).)
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I suppose to his credit, he was only trying to lead an "exorcism in reparation for the sin of same-sex marriage”".  He wasn't actually burning us.  That's progress.

PRROF That You Are An Idiot, Dearest Senator Grassley

Senator Grassley of Iowa is in a huff about the change of filibuster rules.  Getting his knickers in a thorough twist he said,
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"The silver lining is that there will come a day when roles are reversed. When that happens, our side will likely nominate and confirm lower court and Supreme Court nominees with 51 votes," Grassley said, "regardless of whether the Democrats actually buy into this fanciful notion that they can demolish the filibuster on lower court nominees and still preserve it for Supreme Court."
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Approved 52 - 48

Wow.  That would be scary. EXCEPT DEMOCRATS HAVEN'T BEEN DICKS TO REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS ABOUT THIS.  The other day Young Senator Grassley said they have plenty more Scalias and Thomases to nominate.
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Not Filibustered

But you see, Senator Whines-A-Lot, neither one were filibustered.  And yes, it could have stopped them.  Judge Clarence Thomas was approved 52 to 48.  See that isn't 60.  And you didn't need 60 votes because the Democrats haven't been petty, bitchy, whiny children in the past about Presidential Appointments.
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Idiot.

Like It Makes Any Difference

So, can I say I like this?  Sure, Republicans will bitch and whine and say "we'll do the same thing later."  But they would have done this anyway (let's all remember that Bush's Tax Cuts passed with Dick Cheney the deciding vote after they refused to allow a fillibuster).  You can still talk as long as you want.  That's in the Constitution.
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And Republicans have been extra dickish since they put a Black Man in the White House - (I ain't saying it's racist - but it's racist).  Hell they filibustered the Secretary of Defense an ex-REPUBLICAN Senator.
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It's nice to see the Democrats get a spine for a moment.
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 (I was going to say find their balls or sac up - but the Ladies of California moved on this, so the expression would have been incorrect - we need a new phrase.  Let's say Dianne Feinstein finally decided Americans were as important as the Chinese Businessmen her husbands services.  No that's a bit rude.)

Two In A Row

So I had an interview and didn't get the job.  Now, this shouldn't be a big deal.  An old employer wants to hire me in January, so it's not like I am hard up.
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But an interview were I didn't get the job I wanted.  That never happened.
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Before this year.
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Now it has happened twice in a row.
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And the interview went great.  They kept me for 1.75 hours for a 30 minute interview.
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I'm old and unemployable.....
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sigh

Police Nincompoopery in Nassau Long Island

Well, this is absolute stupidity.
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Nassau police sent in underage informants to buy cigarettes (you have to be 21 in New York, this guy was 17).
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So the owner of the store kicked out the 18 year old, and made the 17 year old stay in the store after he called the cops.  No physical force, but wouldn't let him leave.
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Nassau police charged the owner with impeding an investigation.  Fro doing the right thing and calling the police.
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Nin comp poopery.

Great Picture of Jane

I was going through pictures today (long and boring story), and I found this picture of Jane from October.
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Isn't it nice.  This was when we went to Winston Churchill's home.
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Trey Radel: Hypocritical D*ckwd

So Tray Radle, a Republican (what else) congressman from Florida (surprise! not Texas) was arrested for Cocaine possession.  He tried to buy 3.5 grams (an eightball).
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Now, normally I say live and let snort.  But Trey, you see, is a hypocritical dickwad.
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Why?  Well, Congressman Radle JUST VOTED to test all Food Stamp recipients (LINK).  Apparently if you fail a drug test, you shouldn't be entitled to EAT, but you should be entitled keep your cushy-ass Congressional job!
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I hate liars and hypocrites.

Really: Don't kids babysit or have little brothers or sisters anymore?

So The Huffington Post has a remarkably interesting post about being a new mom.  Most of the information is sweet / useful / touchy feely.  You know, "depend on friends", "don't worry that your body looks like hell", "yes, it does hurt, but that's okay" and the ever helpful advice to "learn to ignore advice".
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But my favorite gem is this...
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5. Speaking of bullshit, oh mylanta, the poop. They warn you. They tell you. And despite every warning, it is still baffling and alarming and downright awe-inspiring how much of your next year is going to be spent dealing with, assessing, smelling for, washing off, evaluating, discussing, logging and transporting poop. Get good and comfy with poop, friends. The poop cometh. For whom the poop tolls. The hunt for poop-tober -- you get the idea.
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Okay, is she actually surprised about this?  How?
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Did she never babysit an infant?  Did she have no little brothers or sisters?  Was she just an unhelpful spoiled brat, now ready to impart her advice to us from on high?
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You think it's bad now, missy, you should have seen when we had to wash all those poopie diapers out in the toilet and bleach them to high heaven!  Thank your pampers you live in a world where throwing away the icky poop is the worst of your worries.

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From my Alma Mater
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Dear Mr. Mitchell, I am writing to introduce myself to you as the new Chair of the UCLA Department of Geography and to begin what I hope will be a regular conversation with our loyal alumni.  UCLA is approaching its one hundredth year and is stronger than ever.  The recent US News and World Report ranking placed us second only to Berkeley among public universities--and the Geography Department is a big part of that success, currently ranked #2 among Geography Departments in the United States.  Long recognized internationally as a leader in education and research, the Department offers undergraduate, master's and Ph.D. degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies with classes and student projects ranging from satellite imaging to climate change to globalization. I come to the role of Department Chair after 17 years with the department. As such, I have learned a tremendous amount about our students, and I remain committed to continuing to improve their experiences here. For example, I developed a wildly popular small field course in the Sierra Nevadas in which I backpack with undergraduate students into the Hall Wilderness area to teach them first-hand about mountain environments. Over the past three years, I have mentored many UCLA undergraduate and graduate students in independent research projects studying the Greenland ice sheet (for some spectacular footage of this work, click here).  Also, I wrote THE WORLD IN 2050, a successful lay-audience book incorporating many examples of undergraduate and graduate research within its pages. In addition to attracting the very best geography and environmental studies undergraduate and graduate students in the world, the Department has grown a truly world class faculty including Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bookGUNS GERMS AND STEEL. These talented teachers and scholars are a key component of our education mission and an important reason for our Department's top ranking by national and world rating agencies.  Over the past five years, many of our long-standing professors have achieved new heights, and we have recruited some truly excellent new professors to join the department.  You may learn more about us by visiting our newly designed website at www.geog.ucla.edu. Creating new opportunities for undergraduates to work more closely with faculty is a personal priority of mine.  To aid this, as I begin my new role as Chair, I am excited about communicating with our many alumni around the country and world.  I am always happy to hear from you to hear more about your experiences at UCLA and beyond, and to discuss ways you can support and engage with the department. Best regards,  Laurence C. Smith Professor and Chair UCLA Department of Geography Ralph Bunch - UCLA Under -Secretary General of the UN First African American Nobel Peace Laureate Managed the UN Transition from Colonies to Nations in the Pacific and Africa. Bunch Hall Yes, you have seen it in a million movies. The pop out windows were added after it turned out to be about a zillion degrees inside. Bunch hall with Bottle Brush plants The Bunch Hall Palm Court Yes - my school's department was in a Palm Court. How LA am I?

Prince of Darkness is Annoyed

Holy Moly...
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This is like Satan condemning Hell as too hot. Or Liz Cheney condemning her sister... oh wait.. nevermind.
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“America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security,” he told The Daily Beast. “Whether it’s allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should. I don’t know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible ‘cause that country would look more like North Korea than America.”

Everyone starts somewhere

It can't be easy being an Icelandic Ryan Gosling, but that seems the fate nature has handed out to one Darri Ingolfsson (son of Ingolf).  Seen above is his ad for Joe Boxer shorts for the Mysterious Mart of K.
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In the ad, which you can see in full below, he has an non-speaking part as a Christmas bell ringer, playing his balls.
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Then, you get a break.  In Darri's path it was this last season of Dexter, where the ball-ringing Icelander played a psychopath to perfection.
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Which just shows to go you... you never know.
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NY Times Misses the mark.. By a Lot

Occasionally (rarely, albeit more and more frequently) the New York Times misses the mark by such a wide margin I question their reasoning.
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"Can they be," I wonder, "this wrong?  Or, do they expect readers not to have the sense God gave a goose and see past this?"  (Yes, somethings I wonder with Chandler Bing inflection.)

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In this case the entire problem is helpfully captured in the secondary headline of their editorial, ie; People in the United States pay more and get less that citizens in other advanced countries.
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Which is both true and meaningless - at least on an individual level.
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Aggregating spending and results on a national level doesn't really make all the much sense in a nation where health is paid for by the individual (either privately or through insurance).
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So, those people that can afford good health care get amazing health care.
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Those people that can't afford health care, don't get any or get very very expensive emergency room health care when it is too late for it to be helpful.
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Take pre-natal care.  Many people with no insurance or people with lousy insurance don't get prenatal care.  (Low cost).  But when they have the baby, if there is a problem that cheap pre-natal care might have caught or avoided altogether - we will do everything possible to save the child.  Six months in neo-natal isolation at the cost of millions?!  Okay.  Require insurance to cover pre-birth check-ups?  Socialism.
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Where Republicans are correct on our national health care problem, they are very right.   A TON (way too much) of our "health care spending" isn't on "health care" at all.  It is spent in the health care areana only to avoid law suits.  We have a zillion Caesarian births to avoid lawsuits on the off chance one was necessary.   We will keep terminally ill people alive at a massive cost, much longer than we should (or they want), because to NOT do that would invite lawsuits.
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Our health care has a lot of problems. reducing them to this black and white - We Spend To much and Get Too Little argument is not helpful.  Not because it is wrong, per say, but because people don't see that at an individual level. And health care is very very individual.

Before This.. This

Well, it has been 20 years since Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera joined the (new) Mickey Mouse Club.
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So Before they were this...

They were this..

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Watch them sing and dance in what looks like their grandfathers pjs.

Today at New York City Hall

I spoke today at the new York City Hall.  I had never been in before.
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It was odd because you had to have business inside (there are plenty of external guard posts), and most city business is conducted elsewhere in various city buildings.  Even most committee meetings are in a building close by.
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However, my Finance Committee meeting was in the main building.  Also weird, you could take pictures.  So much of New York City is no longer photographable (terrorism) that I was shocked no one stopped me.
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Anyway, it is the oldest City Hall in Am erica that is still used for governmental functions... at least according to wWikipedia.  It is about 200+ years old now (built from 1810 - 1812).
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Here are my pics (and yes, we received the thumbs up on the proposal).
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The City Council Office.  I had to sign up to speak on the far right.

the entrance rotunda

the stairs in the rotunda

a portrait of Grover Cleveland - I liked it

George

This was cool, right in front of the building

Nathaniel Hale's statue across from of the building

New York's City Hall

Argh! City Council of Nincompoops

New York City's population is 8.3 million.  That puts our population just below Austria, and just above Switzerland.  Countries like Finland, Denmark, Israel, Slovakia, Ireland, Jordan and Libya have fewer people.  So you'd think, I say think, that for our City Council we would get a bright eyed - smart set of council people right?  Big pool to choose from?
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Well, not so much.  Some maybe, but not the ones I watched today.
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In talking about how Business Improvement Districts (BID) should work, this one Council woman (from the Upper Side)  described the great BID in her district.  Her BID are working with kids and Columbia University and blah blah.
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Well someone pointed out they this group which was requesting formation, that they had talked to residents and had some new ideas...
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She interrupted, apparently uncontent to let people address her points or agree with her.  Instead, she wanted to go on record that new Business Improvement Districts should be mandated to think outside the box.
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Yes, you read that right.  She wants to mandate that unconventional thinking be required.  Which, of course, makes it conventional and therefore not "out of the box" at all.
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I think she is unclear on the concept.

While You've Been Busy...

While most level headed people avoid the news like the plague, I - you're intrepid mister of nincompoopery - have kept an eye out. For you!
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Here is what you might have missed.
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Leo, The worst drug sniffing dog in the world.
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Leo and police in New Mexico have lately been given deep cavity searches for drugs to people who have no drug history, no arrests and ultimately no drugs.
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In one case, New Mexico police (Albuquerque, I think) stopped a man in a parking lot and thought he "clenched his buttocks". Rather than being
a reflexive response to an overexcited police investigation, the police thought this meant he had drugs up his ass.  In the Home Depot parking lot.
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So Leo went in and thought he smelled drugs in the car seat.  Which could only mean drugs in his ass.
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2 probes, 3 enemas, multiple x-rays and one 1AM colonoscopy later - the man was proven drug free  (hell at this point LA police know to plant the freaking drugs!).
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Leo also sniffed out a mother (again - no drug arrests, no history) crossing the border. So customs did x-rays - a visual search of her vagina and anus, had her cough while squatting nude - then just decided to go ahead and rattled around her front door and back.  Without, you know, a warrant.
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Moving on.
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Scotland Yard has decided, after a year of investigating, that a spy killed himself and then put himself into a gym bag.
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By locking himself in a gym bag at home.
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With a padlock.
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With a padlock that didn't have his fingerprints on it.  In a gym bag with none of his DNA on the outside of the bag.
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Crafty!
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Finally - No one plays until Senator Graham finds Satisfaction!
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And finally Senator Lindsey Graham expressed outrage over the Benghazi report on 60 Minutes and has put a hold on the Head of the Federal Reserve Board.  Which, has nothing to do with Benghazi.
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And, the 60 Minutes story was based on a lie - which they have acknowledged and apologized for.
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Senator Graham doesn't let little things like facts stop him though.
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He insists on more talks until he is satisfied. 
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Can someone please buy him a hooker!

The Wedding

Well, the foremost reason we went to Mexico was to attend Alana and Max' wedding.  Alana is my cousin (my Mom's Brother's daughter).  Last year we went to Albuquerque to her sister Elise's wedding.
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It was a great service and we really enjoyed it.  The party went quite late - although those of us over 40 left long before the 2AM official close of festivities.
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The Wedding took place out on this pier

You may now... you know.

Alana looking great.

Me and coco (the Mother of the Bride)

Nile, Me and Elise (last years Wedding participants)

Alana and Max (Birdie, Max' daughter, stands up for him)