The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    For aficionados of dark humor

    By artappraiser on Thu, 05/23/2019 - 11:48pm |

    Check out some of the tweeted replies to the U.S. Army's new twitter campaign:

    How has serving impacted you?

    — U.S. Army (@USArmy) May 23, 2019

    I found it because this one reply was retweeted by the great veteran NYTimes reporter C.J. Chivers.

    Comments

    Ouch. Yes, dark. (this one was an easy grab - a lot more)

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    Didn’t serve but 1 buddy wakes up in the middle of the night screaming. Another has to run a fundraiser every year cause he lost his legs.

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    how does he do that if he lost his legs?


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/24/2019 - 9:18am

    PP, they obviously got more than one marketing plan up their brassed sleeves:

    West Point is about to graduate its largest class of black women @ CNN.com

    similar video @ ABC.com, on You Tube and many other places. Check out the second shot of the ladies, it's *just like* being on the hip college drill team?:

     

     


    by artappraiser on Sat, 06/08/2019 - 4:01pm

    I Love a (wo)Man in a Uniform.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/08/2019 - 5:15pm

    This somehow seems appropriately posted under this title

    NEWS: DNC announces the roster for the first Democratic debate

    Bennet
    Biden
    Booker
    Buttigieg
    Castro
    de Blasio
    Delaney
    Gabbard
    Gillibrand
    Harris
    Hickenlooper
    Inslee
    Klobuchar
    O’Rourke
    Ryan
    Sanders
    Swalwell
    Warren
    Williamson
    Yang

    EXCLUDED

    Bullock
    Messam
    Moulton

    — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 13, 2019

    by artappraiser on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 6:21pm

    It's 2019 - shouldn't we be running this as "Democrats Got Talent"/"Democratic Idol" rather than a stodgy overcrowded version of 1960 Nixon v JFK?

    Dem voters can select the winners of each round & matchup (oh sorry, we have to give preference to Independents cuz they rule our world)

    They can even perform special skills - skateboarding, stop-and-frisk, fence-sitting on issues, support of 3rd world authoritarians, waffling (can get Martha & Snoop to host this episode), et al


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 3:03am

    Seriously! As one cannot have a "debate" between 20 people, why even pretend? Just give them each a few minutes on stage to present their "act", like with the talent shows. (Need it be said: no swimsuit competition.)


    by artappraiser on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 11:25am

    A random drawing, which was closed to the press but attended by campaign officials, took place at NBC's 30 Rock offices in New York and looked to randomly divide the lineup for both debate nights between the candidates polling above and below 2%.

    • June 26: Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, Tim Ryan, and Elizabeth Warren
    • June 27: Michael Bennet, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Hickenlooper, Bernie Sanders, Eric Swalwell, Marianne Williamson, and Andrew Yang

    by ocean-kat on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 12:55pm