https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-liaison-arizona-audit-says-he-resigning-won-t-be-n1275285 The Republican serving as liaison between the Arizona state Senate and the private company conducting a partisan ballot review said Wednesday he intends to resign, citing his inability to back the final product. Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state, said he made the decision after it became clear he would not regain access to the Phoenix fairgrounds where the private company, Cyber Ninjas, continues its examination of millions of ballots cast last November in Maricopa County. "Right now I’m the liaison in name only," he told conservative radio host James Harris Wednesday. "I don’t know if that makes me a LINO or what." ... Earlier report characterized him as the "director," this report says he's the "liaison", and will soon not be. :man-shrugging:

From Wikipedia: "Popeil initially operated as a distributor of his father's kitchen products " I met his father (Sam, iirc) when I was a medical student on the neurology service.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bob-odenkirk-better-call-saul-heart-attack-1234989892/ Bob Odenkirk is in stable condition at a New Mexico hospital Wednesday, a day after suffering a heart attack while in production on the sixth and final season of AMC’s Better Call Saul. “We can confirm Bob is in stable condition after experiencing a heart-related incident,” reps for the actor said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. “He and his family would like to express gratitude for the incredible doctors and nurses looking after him, as well as his cast, crew and producers who have stayed by his side. The Odenkirks would also like to thank everyone for the outpouring of well wishes and ask for their privacy at this time as Bob works on his recovery.” Sources say production was a little more than halfway done on the final season at the time of Odenkirk’s heart attack. Production remained halted Wednesday as everyone involved with the series remains focused on Odenkirk’s health. It’s unclear how long production will remain down. Reps for both AMC and producers Sony Pictures Television have yet to comment. “He’s going to be okay,” tweeted Bob’s son, Nate Odenkirk, on Wednesday afternoon.

I'll watch just about anything, I will probably never watch a Space Jam

@doctor-phibes said in Off The Press: @jolly said in Off The Press: From the former editor of Drudge... I wonder which has declined more over the last 5 years, olympic viewing figures or Drudge's readership. Probably Drudge. Ever since he sold out and the site went lamestream, parroting the legacy media, it wasn't worth fooling with.

@loki said in Some good info on Breakthrough Cases: @jolly said in Some good info on Breakthrough Cases: They're behind the curve. Talking to SIL this morning...They called the family in this morning on an 80 year-old man. Surprisingly healthy, almost no meds, fully vaccinated. (They have a set of protocols where they are letting some individuals see patients before sending them to ICU.) Was doing great, still running a horse ranch. Came down with COVID, had the classic lung presentation on xray in the ED, admitted with normal treatment regimen. He was being transferred to ICU this morning, where he will be intubated. Prognosis is grim. Granted, that's an elderly man, but he was in good health. We are seeing more cases in that 25-45 range, and some of those guys are pretty sick. And some of these guys, especially the forty-somethings have been vaccinated. Is the source vaccinated or unvaccinated people? Don't have a clue. My sources are what I see in the LIS and hospital gossip.

I never eat popcorn while watching TV because I've never been a big fan of popcorn. I do like watching TV, however.

@89th said in This is why.: I'm happy for her/she/they/them/it. (Seriously, awesome moment for her [and the chick from Bermuda], what great moments). Also, as a guy who doesn't lift weights, I have no desire to infiltrate the female weightlifting competition and still lose by a long shot. As a young lad, I hit the iron a bit. My daughter was a state champion powerlifter. Her coach's daughter once held the world record for the bench press in her weight class. My nephew was in the top five of his class, training for a shot at the Olympics when he badly injured his back ( he never lifted competitively again). I t takes a huge amount of work, diet and denial to get that strong and I appreciate a great performance. The young lady from the Phillipines deserves that gold medal. God Bless her.

And another thing! Watching Arians swanning around in his fancy cart with the sunshade because he's too fat to walk, kvetching at the players for not being enough conditioned, really chaps my you-know-what. It's a good thing they have Brady, who walks the walk, to look up to. What is it with fat coaches, anyway? Him and Belichick. Should be Belly-chick. Hey, Belichick, check your belly! Har de har. Grump. Okay, I'll stop talking to myself now. Unless I think of some other deathless thing.

Get a job. I suspect that is what his relatives said. Nonetheless those are pretty great.

@copper said in Olympic Trivia: In 1912, Native American Olympian Jim Thorpe had his running shoes stolen the morning of the event. When somebody stole his shoes right before he was set to compete in the Olympics, it was probably no big deal to Jim. He simply put on two other shoes that someone had tossed in a trash can. They were different sizes, though, so he had to wear extra socks on one foot to even them out.  He won the gold in the pentathlon. Then you might remember that his medal was taken away when it became known that he had taken money to play minor league baseball. And this year’s men’s basketball team has a total NBA salary of 3.6 Billion, more than the GDP of most Caribbean countries…

Sorry to hear this George.