On This Day in History

1901: 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She survived. But didn’t become rich and famous as she hoped. So, no point in trying this, kids. Also, it’s illegal on both sides of the border.

1945: The United Nations Charter is now effective and ready to be enforced. And look how THAT turned out!

1969: Richard Burton purchased a $1.5 million diamond for Liz Taylor. Moral: don’t waste your money on bullshit expensive gifts; she’ll divorce you anyway.

 

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This is an amazing story.

This makes as much sense as any other wall.

This annoys me. Get the US out of the Middle East.

This just doesn’t matter. She doesn’t stand a chance.

This guy. (Who?)

 

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Have a great rest of your day, or you can do whatever the hell you want.


SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch

Tim Ryan is out, leaving us only a mere 17 remaining Democratic primary candidates.

Row 1: Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar
Row 2: Beto O’Rourke, Tulsi Gabbard, John Delaney, Eric Swalwell, Tim Ryan
Row 3: Pete Buttigieg, John Hickenlooper, Jay Inslee, Andrew Yang, Marianne Williamson
Row 4: Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, Mike Gravel, Julian Castro, Joe Biden
Row 5: Seth Moulton, Wayne Messam, Tom Steyer, Steve Bullock, Bill de Blasio

Delaney, Williamson, Bennett, Messam and Bullock didn’t qualify for the last debate and are probably just going to hold out until after the off-year elections. Or these crazy kids might be waiting to roll the dice in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Sanders should have dropped out by now, but his ego is still fighting against all reason.

Booker, Harris, Klobucher, Gabbard, O’Rourke and Castro are effectively waiting for some sort of Hail Mary, Warren blowing an underage mule or Biden stroking-out. Or they skulking as VP fodder.

At this point, outsiders Yang and Williamson are probably just duking it out to be the Green Party candidate, but they should learn the lesson of Jill Stein: Don’t offer yourself as a scapegoat for the DNC’s failures.

And, waiting in the wings and popping pills, is Hillary, ready to make a meal of what remains after the debates. Will she announce before Iowa? Or wait until it settles down to just Warren and Biden? There have been at least three trial balloons in the press this week. And the kooky Gabbard-is-a-Russian-asset wasn’t an accident. She’s appealing directly to the TDS shocktroops to sway them to her cause. Hillary as the firebrand… OK. At least it will be funny to watch…