Mothers, Morons, Murders ...

Before we do anything... HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY Erin and Jocelyn.

The Schloss-Blog is on a new roll. Sourdough. It's as good as gluten free, which I need. Meanwhile though...

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...did you notice that Republicans, for the most part, want lyin' George Santos to go away, to just sunset himself.

But not lyin' Donald Trump, $5 million liability verdict not withstanding Hmm...

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Not even struggling @CNN wants Trump to go away.

To try to bolster sagging ratings, they gave him an hour to rant, spread lies and conspiracy theories, threaten to pardon the insurrectionists who have been hunted down and convicted and excused himself on the E. Jean Carroll jury's $5 million finding against him (which will stand up on appeal).

Poor Kaitlan Collins, the CNN anchor: Trump trampled on her, insulted her and basically removed her from the stage in front of the MAGA audience CNN assembled at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire.

She never had a chance. For this event, CNN needed to have a more-assertive, more-dominant and more-persistent moderator from its stable of reporters (Chris Wallace? Harry Enten? John Avlon? Alisyn Camerota?). Where's Don Lemon when you need him, huh, CNN?

An event that never should've happened, happened. I'd bet that an embarrassed and insulted Kaitlan Collins has her agent reaching out to MSNBC already after CNN's new boss, Chris Licht, by way of heaping praise on her, more likely threw her under a bus, by saying her disaster of a performance was actually success.  

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According to a study from Stanford and MIT, generative AI makes you 14% more productive than you would be otherwise. The study was conducted at a major corporation's customer-service operations in the Philippines. The company is a Fortune 500 enterprise software firm.

AI is coming to your workplace too, one way or another. Lean into it before it pushes you out the door. At least 14% of you.

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A seventh-grader walked into his school in Belgrade, Serbia, and killed 7 classmates and an adult. Just like that. On May 3.

A seventh-grader!

Greg Abbott wants to give him a medal. And a pardon. And a scholarship.

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Greg Abbott thinks that if there were more guns in schools, in malls, at households across rural Texas, then Uvalde, Cleveland and Allen, Texas, respectively, would not have happened nor been so bad.

That's right, Greg, because they would've been worse.

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Can't watch @CNN anymore. Just can't.

Not after Anderson Cooper berated everyone for not getting out of their silos and welcoming Donald Trump into their living rooms, like @CNN did.

In that case, Anderson, when is the town hall for Asa Hutchinson? For Nikki Haley? For Tim Scott? Dare we say, for Ron DeSantis?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Used to respect you, Anderson. Now I can't stand the sight of you. Who wrote that copy for you, Chris Licht?

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Kouri Richins wrote a children's book about her late husband so her kids would always remember him.

Then she allegedly killed him with a lethal dose of fentanyl.

They allegedly had argued over the possibility of her having had an affair and allegedly argued even more over prospectively buying a $2 million home.

Sorry, but I'm going to take the liberty here of calling her a bitch.

Sex. Money. Death.

And you thought it was just death and taxes.

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E. Jean Carroll's wardrobe was apparently just as contributory toward the $5 million she was awarded from Donald Trump as was her testimony and Trump's "wack job" statements about her.

She presented herself as anything but that person in her apparel at the trial and it paid off, according to a NY Times story in which attorneys not associated with the case were interviewed.

Yes, it paid off for her to dress as professionally and properly as she did during the trial. As that person who would never be Trump's first choice.

Unfortunately or fortunately.

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Robert Sarver lost the Phoenix Suns over the "toxic workplace" he allegedly created there.

Now the guy who bought the team from him, Matt Ishbia, in a transaction hastened to close the Kevin Durant deal expeditiously, is having his company, Detroit-based United Wholesale Mortgage, investigated for the same thing.

Racial disparities, bullying by management and sexual harassment are among the charges being looked into.

Ishbia reportedly paid $4 billion for the team, which got blown away by the Denver Nuggets.

Looks like Daniel Snyder is not in a class by himself, is he?

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Tucker Carlson will do his racist, white-nationalist thing on Twitter.

Good thing Elon Musk believes in "unvarnished" free speech, huh?

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, E. Jean Carroll.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.