Groundhog Day

Somebody had some fun with an iconic sign — and got arrested:

RIP Hal Holbrook, consummate actor whose career spanned 1955–2017. There are 136 titles under his name at IMDb. He was comfortable on the big and small screen and the stage. He was nominated for an Emmy ten times and won five: Best Lead Actor in a Drama — Pueblo (1973), Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series — The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970), Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role — That Certain Summer (1972), Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series — Lincoln (1974), Outstanding Performance in Informational Programming — Portrait of America (1983) for episode Alaska. In 2007 he was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in Into the Wild. He played Abraham Lincoln in two mini-series, both parts of North and South, and adapted his one-man show into a guest appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. After service in WWII he attended Dension College, where he developed Mark Twain Tonight! He won a Tony for the 1966 Broadway production of it. He played “Deep Throat” in All the President’s Men (1976) and John Adams in the 1984 George Washington mini-series. He was in 93 episodes of the Burt Reynolds series Evening Shade. Awesome, air. Thank you. Here’s the cover of his memoir:

Just when it seems leftist twaddle couldn’t get any more absurd, here’s a headline from nypost.com that puts the notion to rest: “San Francisco teacher writes in op-ed: Bernie Sanders’ mittens a ‘lesson in white privilege.’” She wrote: “I don’t know many poor, or working class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie.” Toss up as to which of the two is the bigger doofus.

From an editorial at NYP: “Team Biden wants to hike the nation’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, yet that, warns Steven Greenhut at The Orange County Register, would echo the base rate in the Golden State, which has the highest poverty rate in America.” Do I hear $20? $25? $50?

Headline from newsmax.com: “US Pandemic Milestone: More Vaccinated Than Cases.” Is this the long hoped for turning point? May it be so.

From an article at NM: “Attorney Alan Dershowitz has nominated Jared Kushner for the Nobel Peace Prize for the former White House senior adviser’s work on negotiating normalization deals between Israel and four Arab nations.” His father in law, Donald Trump, received three nominations.

Also from NM, a down note: “Homicides in US Cities Sharply Increased in 2020… the rate in the 34 cities studied was 11.4 per 100,000 residents, still well below the rate of 19.4 those same cities had in 1995.” Hopefully, it isn’t the beginning of a trend.

Here’s an unsurprising headline from foxnews.com: “Americans buying guns at ‘blistering’ pace, says expert, as FBI background checks in January were highest month in history.”

I didn’t see my shadow — book shop a long shot tomorrow. Thursday is probably more like it.

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