Biden Is Dead, Long Live Biden

The Schloss-Blog has noticed that the Trump administration says Joe Biden is dead and we say, "Long Live Biden!" What movie is "The king is dead, long live the king" from, anyway?

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It's not just from a fantasy, although this book would have you think otherwise.

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Meanwhile, have you seen this video? It's about the current administration and it's pretty ... taxing. Check it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ4Z-F1xaP0

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Recently realized that I'm willing to fly seven-plus hours to France, but drive into downtown Chicago. on the construction-laden Kennedy Expressway, for two-and-a-half hours, not for me.

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Congrats to Columbia grad Kacy Hintz, now reporting sports for WPLG in Miami (just in time for the Florida Panthers-Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup Finals matchup) after all those successful years at WRAL in North Carolina.

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The Knicks fired Head Coach Tom Thibodeau, who had five successful years there and took the team further in the playoffs than any of the nine coaches who preceded him.

NINE!!!

He was fired for one reason only though: losing game one of the conference finals to Indiana, blowing a 17-point, fourth-quarter lead in the process and a 7-point lead with less than a minute, less than 30 seconds, in fact, to go.

Now, there's a standard for the next coach.

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Apparently, the phrase "The King is dead, Long live the king," goes back to 15th century France.

OK, but I didn't see any evidence of that while in France in April, although Colbert says Biden was there then.

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The states of Maryland and Rhode Island had automatic gun bans upheld by virtue of the Supreme Court declining to hear challenges to their respective laws thereon.

Take that, MAGA.

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Sen, Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told a townhall assembly in her home state that the Republican proposal to cut Medicaid drastically and eliminate millions from coverage under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) would ostensibly be replaced, for all intents and purposes, because, "We are all going to die." 

The next day, from what appeared to be a cemetery, she  apologized and then doubled down, saying, "I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth."

Or, as the senator is now known around parts of Iowa, Joni Hearse.

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The Trump Administration has opened up the largest area of open, public land in the United States, in Alaska, to oil company drilling. It's believed to be a vast area of annual wildlife migration.

Next, he's going to open up The Loop here is Chicago, another vast areas of annual wildlife migration, into which he already drills for immigrants with legal standing.

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Have you seen "MountainHead" on HBO, where four tech titans gather for a weekend on one of their mansions atop a snowpacked peak? It's supposed to be a weekend of poker, fast-food gorging and joking around.

It quickly degenerates (spoiler alert) into a near-comedic drama about life values, money, U.S. direction, money, stock valuations, money, life and death, money and WTF do tech titans really think about?

Not you and me, apparently.

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Alas, "The King is dead, Long live the king," did appear in a movie. 

Oh Robin Hood, you sneaky devil.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Claire's Boutiques.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show. While you're listening, remember to buy a T-shirt, a coffee mug, a poster, because we're commercial free and receive no public financing.

Whatsoever.

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Joe Biden is still alive, btw.