Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Obama Admin hid information to create Trump-Russia conspiracy, Democrats "should be scared." 

- In response to those wonderful people who gave us "Chatbots." He's not wrong - they call it people skills for a reason.

- Why would media report on public broadcasting funding and ignore their financial records? I think I know why.

- Australia is going Japanese. I really think so - think so think so.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Science won't save itself - we have to make it personal. Stand up for science. (HT Cultural Offering)

- Glenn Reynolds: How Democrats used NGO's to end-run voters.

- Former Patriots TE Don Hasselbeck dies of cardiac arrest at 70. RIP to a good man.

- This includes an estimated $1.1 billion in funding for NPR and PBS. 

Kill Big Bird

Have a new post up on Substack.

The snit NPR and PBS find themselves in over being labeled as "State affiliated" or "Government-funded" on Twitter just brings back the debate of why taxpayers are supporting these outlets that nobody watches or listens to anymore.

Would be funny if an era of small government started with a Twitter protest.

Can't Be Unseen

Via

Sesame Street and PBS

HBO has announced that new episodes of Sesame Street will now only be available on HBO Max and that the streaming of old episodes will also only be available via their service. And with that announcement goes the Democrats biggest defense against PBS losing public taxpayer funding. Remember when Mitt Romney brought up cutting funding to PBS - the cries were "He wants to kill Big Bird!"

Now Big Bird has moved his nest to a gold-plated gated community.

Don't get me wrong - I do not see defunding PBS (and NPR for that matter) as a big deal because of the relatively low amount of tax funds we're really talking about. And I do see the value of the children's programming on PBS for kids whose parent can't afford to give them iPads as playthings.

But if President Trump ever wanted to defund PBS and NPR - now that Big Bird has flown the coop - it would be the perfect time to announce to cuts.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

David Ortiz of the Red Sox now has more stolen bases on the season (4) than Carl Crawford has for the Dodgers (3)... 8 brilliant scientific screw-ups... I saw that Geraldo selfie and all I could think was that the next thing he did was dance around with his junk tucked between his legs like Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs... The voice of God as a young man... I wonder if you added up all the time a PBS station takes for pledge breaks and pledge drives - how it would compare to the time an average station plays commercials?... Being stubborn means continuing to drink coffee even when you have diarrhea...  This photo of Jim Boeheim sleeping akimbo is just awesome... Who is the bigger disappointment at 3rd base in 2013 - Brett Lawrie for the Blue Jays or Will Middlebrooks for the Red Sox?... What actually happens at the end of Trading Places... It would be cool if Michael Keaton made an cameo on Justified as Ray Nicolette... Some comedian should do a person in the street interview asking average people if they are upset that Piers Morgan was acquitted of shooting Trayvon Martin...