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There's a brief video of her appearance buried in this piece about her hitherto unrevealed six-year separation from her husband, mostly focused on her changing hairstyles over the years. When I first read this, I said to myself, "I would've thought Meryl Streep and her husband were sensible en...

At least one poll has RFK Jr. taking more votes away from Trump than from Biden.

"Biden beats Trump, RFK Jr. in three-way race: poll:"

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... race-poll/

. . . and Jim Jordan fails to win the Speakership on the first ballot. More balloting is postponed until tomorrow. Like I said, the Republicans say they don't believe in government; and, by golly, they're keeping their word.

Scalise just dropped his bid for Speaker, leading the Republicans back to square whatever.

Fair Play (Chloe Domont, 2023) 8/10 This riveting film has a very strong whiff of all those psychosexual thrillers of the 1980s - "Fatal Attraction", Disclosure" - but instead it treads through a different path manoeuvring its way through corporate corridors. Oozing sex are a couple ...

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 to Claudia Goldin,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 'for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.'”

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all." This makes the second year in a row that the Nobel Peace Prize has gone, ...

"The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, 'for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'”.

"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov 'for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.'”

I wonder if this scenario is actually possible. The Republicans bring up a vote for Trump as Speaker. Most, if not all, of the Biden 18 vote against him. Enough of the Republican Caucus is sufficiently angered to strip the nay voters of their committee and subcommittee positions. This leads the stri...

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier 'for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.'”

Just one other point, and maybe this is a stretch but I hope not. If you've been following the House Speaker drama going on right now, it's clear that the elected Democrats are very much united and the Republicans are in utter disarray. Too bad Will Rogers didn't live a century longer to see this.

The Nobel Prizes are being awarded this week. Today is Physiology And Medicine. "The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base mod...

"Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers while building real estate empire:"

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump ... ba5da74249

"The Writers Strike Is Over: WGA Votes to Lift Strike Order After 148 Days:"

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/writer ... 235735512/

The details in the article include quite substantial AI restrictions.