Bits and Pieces, Mostly Broken Pieces...

The Schloss-Blog is watching everything. It looks like this:

You want to get action from Congress on gun control, significant action?

Release the damn photos of the Uvalde victims.

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Things are so compelling, so dramatic in the presentations by the Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection that for the first time, Donald Trump posted on his own Truth Social network.

Even though that sparked a rise in enrollment on practically dormant social medium, it was his first post since its establishment in February (think he misses his Twitter account?) and shows the depth to which the committee's findings, and evidence, indict him.

It took five months for him to post on it.

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Speaking of five, a fifth. Which is probably what Trump consumed watching John Eastman take the 5th more than 100 times.

Eastman asked to be on Trump's presidential pardon list on 45's way out the door, but it didn't happen. The ask, and if it had been granted, would've been an admission of guilt by Eastman and Trump. The Supreme Court has held that taking the 5th "...carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it."

'Nuf said.

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 A lot of noted anniversaries this week.

Remember Internet Explorer? It was officially retired this week.

Remember Watergate? This week is the 50th anniversary of the break-in that sparked it all.

In fact, it was Forest Gump, staying at the Watergate Hotel that night, who called it in.

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Georgia Congressman Barry Loudermilk escorted would-be insurrectionists on a tour of the Capitol the day before the attack.

A few things here:

He denied it at first.

Then said he does it all the time.

The Capitol was closed to the public at the time due to the pandemic.

His "guests" were taking pictures of security stairwells.

He's a lying schmuck and a prospective conspirator.

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Lauren Boebert, the biased, gun-toting representative from Colorado, has added to her colorful list of quotes with this gem:

"Jesus didn't have enough AR-15s to keep his government from overthrowing him."

She also felt that Jewish visitors to the Capitol were doing recon.

For what, asshole?

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This is the 50th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Napalm Girl" photo from Vietnam.

Devastating.

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Speaking of anniversaries, The series "The Jetsons" was supposedly set in 2062, or 40 years from now.

Which mean George Jetson, who is supposedly 40 in the cartoon series from the '60s, would be born sometime this year.

Right?

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Every Sunday, I read the Chicago Tribune Business section - uh, Success section - and it is filled with bylines from Inc. and other sources that are not Chicago Tribune.

Welcome to the era of reporting in the 21st century, Maybe the Chicago Tribune should just be called the Tribune.

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Good night Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you Kim Phuc Phan Tai.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show. Congrats to John Kirk DeRitis being named RFP's midday jock, all week long.                    .