Every year about this time he gets all over the TV.

It being the 20th Anniversary of the Columbine massacre, it is hard to find joy today, but this helped.

Bernie is on now.  The first question was how he would phase out private healthcare, and he evaded the question.  Whiff as far as I am concerned.

And, I do hold it against him that he trashed Hillary, and his supporters like Nina Turner refused to endorse her--after the Primary was over.

No equivocating no multiple choice.  You gotta pick one.

This is not about who you would VOTE for.  If this series of unfortunate events happens many of us will have already voted for someone else.

What Im curious about is who do you think, of the two, would be a better candidate.  The most likely to win.

It's not a simple question.  I realized this after thinking about it in the shower.

On policy personally I would vote for Bernie.  But Biden really might be a better candidate.  OTOH if it comes down to the two of them and Bernie loses I think there is a real possibility many Bernie supporters would not vote for Biden and worse would vote for Trump.

So my brain and eyeballs are feeling a bit singed and blasted.

I'm not sure why we put up with slow moving plots? Every series seems to be the same.... the first episode or two is interesting.. then things slow down for 5 or 6 episodes... then they pick up a bit at the end.  

When it comes time for a second season, it's usually too similar to the first.  Stranger Things and Ozark are examples of good first season shows that more or less repeat things in the second season.  A few exceptions to this rule are True Detective and American Horror Story.

Now Apocalypse on HBO

Gentleman Jack starting next week on HBO

"All in the Family" and its spinoff series "The Jeffersons" were two of the boldest and most beloved sitcoms of the 1970s and early '80s. In fact, both shows were so groundbreaking that many pop culture spectators and industry insiders have long claimed they'd never even make it on network TV these days.

But Norman Lear, the writer and producer behind both hits, is ready to prove the naysayers wrong with a one-night-only live special featuring new stars in the same old roles.

At first glance you'll think many in the cast are too young but they're actually older than the original cast when it first aired.

Not sure how much this will affect me; maybe higher gas prices.

But the bigger news for me is DOS is also changing access to Cuba (number of reasons to go drastically cut to family members of Cuban citizens only, no more veiled tourism) and remittances limited to $US1,000 a month on 2 May unless Cuba removes it's military from Venezuela.  Back in the day you could sail to Cuba and the custom's man would put a small sheet of paper in your passport and ask if you wanted the sheet or your passport stamped.  That changed when Obama ended the wetfooot/dryfoot policy.

The 2 May date also is when the date when suspension of Title III ends which has multiple implications.  Long story short US interests (US Sugar and King Ranch, largest land owner in Cuba pre revolution) can sue companies that are doing business in Cuba.  EU is claiming if their companies are sued they will sue the US companies in the World Court.  Not to mention that nasty response from Cuba mostly because of the worry that foreign investment will start to dry up.  Cruise ships and airlines would also see a big drop in potential passengers from the US.  With the number of airlines serving Cuba already dropping flights this is a concern.

So far Holzhauer has racked up $942,000 in just 13 episodes, breaking the record for the best one-day earnings on the show (his performances have been so strong he also has the second-best, third-best and fourth-best one-day earnings).

In terms of overall winnings, he's now second in the show's history, behind Ken Jennings who won $2.5m over 74 episodes in 2004 - but Holzhauer is on track to beat the record in half the time.

In tonight's episode, Holzhauer could break the $1.3m (£1m) mark. His run will be costly for showrunners, who must be experiencing a little jeopardy themselves, as they normally budget for far smaller prizes: a Jeopardy! winner takes home an average prize of $19,980 an episode; in Holzhauer's best performance he took home $131,127.

Today we witnessed the peaceful and dignified execution of John King for the savage, brutal and inhumane murder of James (James Byrd Jr.) on June 7, 1998 -- really a modern-day lynching. King, who was the ringleader of the three, had a deeply ingrained hatred of blacks as evidenced by his actions, tattoos and hate-filled rhetoric. He wanted to make a name for himself and his organization by killing a black man. James was chosen as his target. James was shown no mercy as they dragged him while alive behind a pickup truck using a 25-foot logging chain. His body was slung from side to side like a sack of potatoes until he was decapitated. King showed no remorse then as well as tonight. His execution tonight was just punishment for his actions.

Remember Brans vision of a giant dragon shadow over KL?  I'm betting that was Viserion.  And Dani's vision of a burned and gutted Red Keep will be.

Astronomers continue to track the object as it gets closer. They learn it could be somewhere between 100 and 300 meters wide--the size of a skyscraper. After a month of tracking, the probability of collision with Earth is now 1 percent--the threshold at which international organizations have agreed they must take action.

Astronomers are able to create a "risk corridor," measuring where the asteroid might hit. Its potential paths intersect the United States, some of western Africa, and the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.

NASA and FEMA Will Simulate an Impending Asteroid Strike Next Week

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Some hilites

* Arya and Jon were supposed to fall in love, with their "passion" for each other tormenting them, "until the secret of Jon's true parentage is finally revealed in the last book". 


• Catelyn, Bran and Arya were going to head beyond the Wall and meet up with Mance Rayder, and Catelyn was intended to die at the hands of the White Walkers.

• Dany was going to kill Drogo in an act of vengeance for the murder of her brother. Rather than being gifted the dragon eggs, she was going to find them in the wilderness.
* Tyrion would have dethroned Joffrey, with Jaime taking the throne after him (it sounds like much of his plot went to Cersei instead). Tyrion would then side with the Starks against Jaime, and ALSO fall in love with Arya, leading to a "deadly rivalry" between him and Jon.