In film and television production, B-roll, B roll, B-reel or B reel is supplemental or alternative footage intercut with the main shot. Sam Bee: Fashion Consultant No Debate? Good! My accent isn’t a party trick American Standard here. I sound like a newscaster from Ohio except when I’m exposed long enough to my liguistic roots. …
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Mar 06 2019
Missing The Point
You know, I sort of resent being lumped by Millennials into this category of “Boomers” because I’m way, way older than that. Held Orville’s coat at Kitty Hawk I did. I would sort this slight in the bucket of all Blacks and Asians and Lesbians (and especially Black Asian Lesbians) look alike and must therefore …
Mar 06 2019
Cartnoon
I was around for the great New York to Paris race and it is supremely easy to forget that most places didn’t have roads worthy of the name, including the United States. Highways didn’t really become popular until the 30s and now they’re everywhere. Frequently, to shock people, I’ll refer them to pictures of roads …
Mar 05 2019
There Is No End To The Win.
Well, if you consider keeping the margin under a Veto Proof Majority a win. White House works to limit GOP defections, criticism ahead of vote to nullify Trump’s emergency declaration By Erica Werner, Jacqueline Alemany, and John Wagner, Washington Post March 4, 2019 The White House told Senate Republicans on Monday to “keep their powder …
Mar 05 2019
Why You Should Never, Ever Vote For Andrew Cuomo. Ever.
Did I mention ever? Look, I vote Working Family Party every time I can, strategically. Connecticut can’t hardly get more Blue (Statewide, there are local pockets and we are heavily gerrymandered and white, white, white) and while Greens are not particularly strong or organized WFP is and my consistent advice to Democratic candidates is to …
Mar 04 2019
Fox News All-In For Trump. And?
OMG!!! the media and the internet is all agog over The New Yorker‘s investigative reporter Jane Mayer’s article on how Fox News was all in for Donald Trump in 2016. Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel knew about Donald Trump’s illegal hush money payment to a pornographic film actor ahead of the 2016 election but killed …
Mar 04 2019
Wacky Crazy MMT!
To me what’s significant about this presentation is how mainstream and reasonable it is. Remember MMT is about what, not how. What is about Money and not only can we just print what we need, we already do. How? Well, we spend tons of it on useless things like F 35s and it’s certainly arguable …
Mar 04 2019
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I frequently remark, at least privately, on how different my life could be had I chosen this or that path instead of drifting along my current one (which suits me just fine) and I find I am now what I ever wanted to be, a writer who writes for people rather than machines (pretty equally …
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