January 4, 2022

"The Office" - Todd Packer actor arrested (David Koechner)

David Koechner, known for his roles in the Anchorman movies and the U.S. version of The Office, was arrested on New Year’s Eve, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

According to TMZ, Koechner was arrested for suspected DUI and hit-and-run on Friday in Simi Valley. He was taken into custody and booked into Ventura County jail. He was released the following morning and has a court date set for March, TMZ reported.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/anchorman-actor-david-koechner-arrested-on-new-year-s-eve/ar-AASoxM7

January 4, 2022

why is this bag empty?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pup-steals-sandwich-from-porch/vi-AASnXJ2

January 4, 2022

racist law professor Amy Wax asks about Asians "Does the spirit of liberty beat in their breast?"

A controversial law professor at the University of Pennsylvania is taking heat—yet again—for her racist comments.

This time, Amy Wax was called out for being xenophobic in a recent interview with Glenn Loury, a social sciences professor at Brown University, and was quick to clap back at her critics. But her “defense” only made things worse, when she directly stated that because “most” Asian Americans support Democrats, “the United States is better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.”

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It all started with the Dec. 20 episode of The Glenn Show, during which Wax discussed U.S. immigration, insisting that it’s difficult to welcome people into Western societies if they do not share the same values—an idea she also shared in a recent speech.

“It’s just harder to assimilate those people or to have confidence that our way of life will continue if we bring a lot of people in who are not familiar with it. These are not original ideas on the [political] right,” Wax told Loury. “This might result in a shift in the racial profile of people who come in. Obviously, we’ll have fewer people from Africa. We’ll have fewer people of some parts of Asia, and it’ll be more white—not that many white people want to come to the United States.”

Specifically, Wax referred to South Asian elites migrating to the U.S., whom she differentiated from migrants traveling from Latin America.

“[We] have to distinguish mass-immigration, which we’re getting from the Hispanics, south of the border, which I think poses different questions and challenges from the Asian elites that we’re getting,” she said. “It doesn’t mean that the influx of Asian elites is unproblematic. I actually think it’s problematic. …I think it’s because there’s this…danger of the dominance of an Asian elite in this country, and what does that mean? What is that going to mean to change the culture?

“Does the spirit of liberty beat in their breast?” she continued.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/racist-penn-law-prof-amy-wax-makes-disturbing-claim-us-is-better-off-with-fewer-asians

January 3, 2022

TV star twins loved plastic surgery but were not vaccinated. both died of COVID this week.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-deaths/tv-star-igor-bogdanoff-dies-from-covid-days-after-brother-grichka/news-story/8c926b9b52fce4e386fccdffcec251e6


French TV star Igor Bogdanoff has died from Covid just days after his twin brother Grichka passed away.

The 72-year-old presenter reportedly succumbed to the illness on Monday in a Parisian hospital just six days after his late sibling suffered the same fate.

The cause of Igor’s death has not yet been confirmed, but relatives claimed the entertainer had been hospitalised since mid-December.

In a family statement released by his agent, they said: “In peace and love, surrounded by his children and his family, Igor Bogdanoff left for the light on Monday January 3, 2022”.

Close pal of the pair and former French Minister of Education Luc Ferry earlier said that Igor was in intensive care after contracting the virus during December.

His brother Grichka died on December 28 after he was reportedly hospitalised in Paris on December 15 due to severe illness after contracting Covid.

A source close to the family told Le Monde that neither Grichka nor Igor was vaccinated against the virus.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-deaths/tv-star-igor-bogdanoff-dies-from-covid-days-after-brother-grichka/news-story/8c926b9b52fce4e386fccdffcec251e6

January 3, 2022

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro hospitalized with abdominal blockage

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-59833267



Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has been rushed to hospital with an intestinal blockage after feeling unwell while on vacation.

The president posted a photo from his hospital bed on Twitter, saying doctors had inserted a nasogastric tube and were evaluating potential surgery.

Doctors said his condition was stable.

Mr Bolsonaro, 66, has been admitted to hospital several times since being stabbed in the abdomen during his 2018 presidential campaign.

In his tweet, the president said he had started feeling unwell on Sunday afternoon after lunch. He was flown from the southern state of Santa Catarina, where he was vacationing, to the Vila Nova Star hospital in São Paulo.

Television images showed the president walking down the stairs of the presidential plane after landing in the early hours of Monday.

January 3, 2022

What's the Best Book of the Past 125 Years? We Asked Readers to Decide. (NYT)

In October, as we marked the Book Review’s 125th anniversary, we invited readers to nominate the best book published during that time. This was a nod to our history: In its first few decades, the Book Review often asked readers to anoint the best books, the best short stories, the best poems. We wanted this project, like those early ones, to reflect readers’ tastes and preferences.

Responses began pouring in from all 50 states and 67 countries. In November, we presented a list of the 25 most-nominated books (one per author) for a vote. After tallying more than 200,000 ballots, the winner, by a narrow margin, is …



THE WINNER
To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee



https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/28/books/best-book-winners.html

THE RUNNERS-UP
2. The Fellowship of the Ring
3. 1984
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. Beloved

The story of the nominations we received is not consensus, but diversity — not just in the sheer number of books that readers nominated, but in the ways that they interpreted what “best book” meant. Of the more than 1,300 books nominated, 65 percent were nominated by only one person. And only 31 percent nominated a book that made it to our list of 25 finalists. Here are some titles that speak to the breadth of readers’ choices.

January 3, 2022

"It's now official. California is a universal vote by mail state."

https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1477390301199093763

January 3, 2022

TFG's plan to hold news conference on Capitol riot anniversary shows he's getting 'terrible advice'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-plan-to-hold-a-news-conference-on-the-capitol-riot-anniversary-shows-he-is-getting-terrible-advice-ex-aide-says/ar-AASlQlG


Former President Donald Trump, who plans to hold a press conference on the anniversary of the Capitol riot, is getting "terrible advice" from his inner circle, said a former aide.

Trump would be better off remaining silent on January 6, said Alyssa Farah, who worked for the former president as the White House's director of strategic communications.

"The former president has also announced he'll be hosting a press conference that day which, I think if anything proves he's still getting terrible advice from folks around him," said Farah, during an interview with CNN's Kaitlin Collins, per a report by the Independent.

"This would be a wise day for him to stay silent, to let those who were victims on Capitol Hill talk about that very important and solemn day," Farah continued.

January 2, 2022

Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account.

The Guardian: Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-twitter-permanently-suspends-account

January 2, 2022

drivers get out of vehicles and fight in the middle of the road - Colorado

actually big bald guy probably didn't expect an all out fight.. just have a few words and intimidate... but red hat guy retaliated with full on fight.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/other/drivers-fight-in-the-middle-of-the-street/vi-AASi0yS