Squashing the past.

Today's Tids Issue 3,858

For Softening the Anger

Is there nothing that is sacred any more…starting with the martini.

And the new standard for national acceptance of anything is, “It’s all over twitter.”

What is with this dangerous path for trying to get anything you want by lowering standards, And, I’m not talking about “A’s” for showing up in schools. I’m talking about Congress potentially easing the 60 Senator vote on budget expenditures. The problem is that “Party” has become so much more than American people, that there is this sense that nothing which requires a bi-partisan vote will ever get passed again. Keep American standards for excellence high. Become adults again. Feel the hearts of others.

There’s hope for sanity. Well at least for the better illusion of sanity. Facebook is hiring right now 3,000 workers just to fight streaming of live violence.

The Question:

The all-time great Late Night Talk Show Host/Comedians have been ranked. See how many of the Top Ten you can guess.

The Headlines:

--Trump Putin Agree To Work Together On NK, Syria; Trump Tells Putin It’s Time To Stop Humanitarian Disasters In Syria And Ukraine.

--Markets Lower Near Noon Dragged Down By Apple Results; Private Sector Adds More Jobs In April Than Economists Forecasted Average.

--Trump To meet With Palestinian Leader Abbas In White House Today.

--NATO Convoy Targeted By Suicide Bomber In Kabul; At Least 8 Dead.

--Two Police Officers Targeted In Detroit Shooting.

--Comey Is Testifying At Congress Hearing

I was surprised that Stephanie Rice was axed from The Voice last night. But not that she was beaten in the instant runoff by the leading “Cute young boy” contestant, (Who is getting better.) Rice was a pretty talented singer, unique, creative. But she did look angry, Maybe voters got tired of her often repeated back story, or didn’t understand the creativity of her music. But, the competition is tough, and good people will be leaving from now on.. In a review I have used over the years 9 of the 11 received “A’s” for Monday night’s performance. I’ve never seen that before. Rice wasn’t one of them. I think it will be tough going forward. Every one of these singers can be super special on any given night. Lauren Duski was the big ITunes winner, and to Me Jesse Larson is the fast closing dark horse. It’s a real good season with right now Duski and Chris Blue considered the favorites at this point.

I saw Hillary being interviewed at a conference called “Women for Women, International. How un-inclusive is that. If there was Men for Men, there’d be marching in the streets and a congressional investigation. The world is loony.

OMB Director Mulvaney agrees with Jimmy Kimmel, who has made a heartfelt plea not to take people with existing conditions off of health care.

No Republican, or indie and Dems with a civilized, caring heart agrees with the unfunny, enduring bitterness of Kimmel rival, Colbert. A vigorous twitter assault is mounting against the CBS late night “comic”, with a call for advertiser boycotts gaining momentum. Many tell his bosses that Colbert acrimony is not like CBS, a high minded, sensitive company. “Dump him” critics and rational people say. But then, Colbert is only doing what the smug Pelley does every night five hours earlier. But Pelley just isn’t so crass and childish.

The apocalypse may just be Twitter users governing the direction of society.

Do you think that Trump is in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize?

People typically overpay for anything that is attached to news events – the juicier, the better. But, the Aaron Hernandez SUV auction price may be declining after he was found innocent in the double murder allegedly with that SUV being an accessory. Nobody wants to pay big bucks for an Innocent man’s memorabilia.

Actually, I can’t remember the last time when Colbert was funny. But this hatred getting out of hand, especially with his latest rant against the President of the United States. And what is saddest, he is loved most by people who hate.

Microsoft introduced the new Surface Laptop yesterday, and you guessed it, it is a…laptop, plain and simple. It borrowed the “Surface” name but that didn’t come along with the innovative surface adventures. Oh, the new Laptop is very, very thin and good looking. It uses the latest Intel Kaby Processor, But, that costs $1,299 to $2,199, depending on the Ram you need. If you want to pay only the touted $999, you lose big on processing, getting only the “measly” Core i5. So basically, if you like Microsoft, this is your chance to get a machine that makes you look cool and sophisticated, like Mac owners. But don’t except what “Surface” used to represent.

Seriously, it’s not just the changing of the meaning of the word Martini (Or Surface) that bothers me. It seems that every day I hear or see a revised view of something of the past that were very important to what is positive for today, and all of those years that got us to today (No, I’m not talking about historical events made up by DT). Great people and events can be slandered so fast, and thoroughly; disastrously when abetted by social media combined with not fully knowledgeable, minds. No, a martini is gin, vermouth and olives. Period. What is unethical is unethical regardless of whether a law has been passed to enable such felonies of the mind.

The iPhone 7’s design is 3 years old. Doesn’t Apple seem to be losing it’s grip on leadership?

I’m thinking that what Kim wants most is for the US to leave South Korea and take all of their weapons with them.

The NY Times has announced it broke all records by adding 300,000 new digital subscriptions for Q1 2017. I happen to know that during this period a promotion promised that for every “discounted” newspaper subscription (Weekly or Sunday only) that included a  digital subscription, the subscriber was also given two additional free digital subscriptions to pass onto family and friends. That mounts up fast.

Is using the name “surface” to describe a mere laptop Fraud?

The Answer:

Ok, you probably all guessed number one as Johnny Carson. #2 is Letterman followed by Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel. #5 is Craig Ferguson, followed by Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and strangely all the way down at #10 – Jay Leno. I would have him up at least in the top five. Somehow Ed Sullivan slipped in at 11. At 12 we have Steve Allen who pretty much started it all. Next is Graham Norton, and at #14 another molded the profession – Jack Paar. Paar was as big as any of them, maybe more so in his day. The rest through #20 are James Cordon, Bill Maher, Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, Seth Meyer and Arsenio Hall. One of my faves, Dennis Miller, is 21.

For all who say everything is better now, I say you just don’t understand what was.

But I don’t like olives. So use onions and call it a Gibson.