TCM was showing a Disney movie, a nature film about a cute squirrel named Perri. It had been quite a few years since I’d watched anything Disney-related, so I tuned in.
After we are introduced to furry little Perri and her adorable squirrel family, the movie proceeds to document one vicious Mother Nature-orchestrated slaughter after another. A marmot catches and tears Papa Squirrel to shreds. A hawk spots a flying squirrel and snags it for dinner. And so on. A man narrates the carnage in the blasé tone of someone describing how to butter toast.
It was, to say the least, a disturbing experience.
I’m not sure why kids who watched these Disney movies, including yours truly, didn’t just crawl under their beds and stay there for life.
Merry Christmas.
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The FBI is warning that ISIS would like to attack your church this holiday weekend. Trump and Putin have decided that this is a good time to remind everyone that nuclear warfare could obliterate us all.
Merry Christmas.
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Shepard Smith on Monday informed viewers that President Obama pardoned a number of people during his “pregnancy.”
I’ve tried to locate video but, alas, the Internet fails me.
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Speaking of pregnancy, this was in the news:
No comment.
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How to conduct a news interview: Rachel Maddow, arguably liberal media’s best interrogator, sparred with the unflappable Kellyanne Conway on Thursday. Great television.
How not to conduct a news interview: Tucker Carlson, Fox News’s latest attack dog, was called a “son of a bitch” by flustered journalist Lauren Duca on Friday. Garbage television.
Carlson: “You should stick to the thigh-high boots. You’re better at that.”
Duca: “You’re a (bleeped).”
I suppose she might have said “sexist pig.” Hard to say, since I don’t read lips.
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A piece of advice for sports fans (and everyone else) living in cities with professional teams begging for new stadiums: In Minnesota, taxpayers were warned that the Vikings and Twins “could not compete” without brand-new, taxpayer-funded playpens. After the billionaire owners and millionaire players got their new stadiums, the citizens were rewarded with … noncompetitive teams.
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