On the Fact that Fred Astaire Was 23 Years Older than Judy Garland, 24 Years Older than Ann Miller, and Not Particularly Handsome and Yet We Are Led to Think that He Was Capable of Snaring Both of These Young Ladies (as He Apparently Did In "Easter Parade")

   This of course isn't a new thing. Older actors from the studio era frequently got matched up with younger women (Gene Kelly with Debbie Reynolds, Bob Hope with Hedy Lamarr, Louie Nye with Jill St. John, Cary Grant with Eva Marie Saint, Van Heflin with Arlene Dahl, Gary Cooper with Grace Kelly, etc.). I just got a bit of a chuckle with ole Freddy getting a double shot of cradle-robbing that's all.

    Right before sending this missive to press I remembered an even radder example of this type of casting. In 1957 a 58 year-old James Cagney got to star with Jane Greer AND Dorothy Malone (both of whom were radiant and just 33) in the film, "Man of a Thousand Faces", a motion-picture that I've yet to indulge in but will in the not too distant future. I guarantee.

On the Democrats Pushing Mass Migration Strictly for Self-Interest and Bald Political Power

Just a delicate reminder, that's all.

On the Left's Propensity to Debase Reality

   This is where Trump really pisses me off. You have the Democrats morphing into what is easily the most radical major party in U.S. history but because Trump always has to act like a fool and pick fights with fellow madcaps like LeBron James, Jimmy Kimmel, and Robert De Niro, large chunks of the populace seem to be sleepwalking through this disturbing reboot.  Yeah, a lot of U.S. citizens are simply too stupid to follow through and understand the ramifications of crap like the Green New Deal or Medicare for all but a lot of them aren't dolts and are simply too busy to do a deep dive with these issues. If I was Trump I'd have someone make a list of a few dozen crazy ideas that the left has shat out over the last five years with a brief explanation as to why they're crazy. He could probably get it done in a half hour or so and at the end just ask the viewers to think about it. If he could even get 5% of the undecideds to get off the fence it'd be worth it and maybe even assist with the mid-term, who knows.

On a Large Chunk of the Modern Democratic Party Having Ideas and Positions that as Recently as 1990 Would Have Shocked 99.9% of Mainstream Democrats and Maybe Even Gotten Them Institutionalized

   You know the litany of foolishness; defunding the police, court packing, more tech censorship, reparations, open borders, wealth taxation, ending the electoral college, abolishing the Senate, gender affirming care, deep-sixing  the filibuster, abolishing prisons, allowing the government a monopoly on force, preferred pronouns, eight and a half month abortions, not prosecuting people who steal less than a thousand dollars, "space to destroy", the "Green New Deal", etc., etc..

   And, get this, it's gotten so bonkers that some of the more prominent Democrats are threatening to leave the party if they continue with their (essentially) communist agenda, people like John Fetterman, James Carville, Van Jones, and Julian Epstein (this after Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Sinema, and Joe Manchin have already bolted). Yeah apparently having Hassan Piker as the titular head of any organization comes not without it's downside.

On Genocides Being Hard to Carry Out When the People Doing the Killing Warn the People Allegedly Getting Vaporized Whenever an Air-Strike Is Headed Their Way

The kill ratio (noncombatants to combatants) is another monstrous impediment in that numerous urban warfare experts have argued that Israel's stats on this issue are amongst the best in modern history. Of course if you're contending with obsessed and delusional shits like Jon Stewart, Ana Kasparian, and the rest of these haters who blame Israel anytime some damned fool slips on a grape, impediments be damned as they always seem to find a detour.

On the Gorgeous 1930s and '40s Norwegian-American Actress, Sigrid Gurie

  I discovered her a few years back when I was watching "Algiers" starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr. I knew ahead of time about those two being in it and was totally amped to see Hedy (OBVIOUSLY). But as the movie pressed forward I noticed that they were featuring another smokin' hot babe named Sigrid Gurie who was at least in the area code of Hedy Lamarr level allure. Needless to say I reveled in my viewership (though, yes, the distractions made it a wee-bit harder to follow the storyline).

On a New Study Showing that Over 70% of Gen-Zers Believe that Prior to Europeans Arriving In the New-World, Native-American Tribes Lived In Peace and Harmony

  If you still don't think that our education system is monumentally failing after learning about this, you're probably a by-product of the system yourself and thus well prepared to rationalize it (torturously, of course) to make it make sense. Round peg, square hole, not an issue.