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The other morning Carlos was part of a Zoom meeting so he took his computer back to the office for an hour or so. After he finished., I was getting ready to leave for work when he said he’d figured out some more steps to use Zoom to make it easier for him.

“I can use Alt A to mute myself and when I want to speak, I press and hold the space bar and I can talk. When I’m done I release the spacebar and it goes back to mute.”

“I wish I had a spacebar to mute a conversation because I’d start with this one.”

Again, the man loves me, and I don’t know why!

Sidenote: I love how he’s learning to adapt to his new situation.

This Tuxedo Memory if from November 2018 and is entitled:

“For Deedles”

“Here’s another shot of Tuxedo with his bat wings; he doesn’t lay like that all the time, but I think he does it to protect his paws.

And there he is looking gorgeous, followed by him laying atop a sofa, with his legs dangling. Having no claws in his front paws, he often lets his legs just hang down.”

I often called him BatCat for laying down like that!

Last Saturday French athlete Anthony Ammirati didn't move past the qualification round in the Olympic men's pole vault competition due to the interference of a second pole.

As you can see Ammirati is seen trying to clear a 5.70m bar but as he’s falling back to the ground the very noticeable bulge in his spandex suit catches the bar and knocks it all the way down.

The best X comment was something about Drag Queens teaching pole vaulters to tuck but the good news is that Ammirati’s profile has skyrocketed, his Instagram followers have ballooned to over 170,000 and already gotten a quarter million dollar offer from a porn site. 

Plus, he has an enormous dick.

PS Here’s the new logo for the Paris Olympics.

Jennifer Lopez is still wearing her engagement ring from Ben Affleck amid divorce rumors … but on her right hand where it couldn’t be missed when she held her red pocketbook just so.

Sigh. JLo gave up her tour that was bombing so she could stay home and work on her family, but then she went to Italy alone and posed in bikinis on yachts, and then jetted to the Hamptons where she threw herself a costume birthday party.

But Ben was busy, too ... purchasing a new bachelor pad.

One fact that I love about Tim Walz, Kamala’s Harris’ Veep pick is that during his career as a high school teacher, in the same year he coached the football team to a state title he also served as the faculty advisor to the school’s first Gay Straight Alliance Club.

Top that sofafucker.

You know, when you think about it, one of the reasons the weird thing is sticking is: if literally ANY of us met a nearly 80-yerar-old man who dyed his hair bright yellow and wore really bad orange pancake makeup we’d whisper to our friends”

“That guys’ fucking weird.”

Just sayin’.

NFL star Marlon Humphrey—I never heard of him either—blasted Olympic champions Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles for bowing down to Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade after she clinched the gold medal in the floor exercise final, saying:

“This is literally disgusting.”

Humphrey faced blowback instantly, whining, again, on X:

“I’m lowkey getting cooked right now. I think I’m getting cussed out in Brazilian [sic] on Instagram lol.”

Two things, asshat:

1] two world class gymnasts celebrated the Gold medal winner during the medal ceremony and you think it’s disgusting.

And B] It’s Portuguese they speak in Brazil, not Brazilian … and for goddess’s sake, learn to spell or stay off social media.

PS It was the first all-Black gymnastics podium.

Do you ever wonder if a camel looks at his toes and says, Damn, I have vagina foot?

Giancarlo Commare is a thirty-two-year-old  Italian actor but the real issue is: Would You Hit It?

It Is Good News ....

Okay … was it all we hoped for? Was it better than we expected? No, but that’s okay because, first off, we took the House, putting an end to those in Congress who will do whatever the Racist-In-Chief wants to do.

Beto lost to Ted Cruz in Texas, but in the long run it might be for the best because whatever Beto O’Rourke does next, and in the future, he will always best Cruz.

Florida once again proved they put the ‘Duh’ in Flori-duh by electing racist _____ist Ron DeSantis over Andrew Gillum, and, as of now, making it a tie between Rick Scott and Bill Nelson.

But enough about that …. Let’s talk some good stuff.

Kim Davis, the Kentucky Kounty Klerk who famously refused to sign marriage licenses for gay couples, lost her reelection bid to Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill Jr.

Karma is good.

Up in Minnesota they have elected Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, as the country’s first Somali-American elected to Congress. In Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, who also won her election. Tlaib and Omar will be the first Muslim women in Congress.

In Colorado, Jared Polis won the governor’s race and is the first openly gay person to be elected governor in America.

Funny side note: the Colorado cake baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple now has a gay governor.

Angie Craig, a lesbian candidate, won her race to take the U.S. House seat for Minnesota, unseating Republican Jason Lewis, a vicious anti-LGBT lawmaker.

Allis not good everywhere, because Iowa has reelected Nazi-sympathizer, racist and white supremacist Steve King to a ninth term. Really, Iowa?

In my own state, while our Democrat lost his bid to become governor—Foghorn Leghorn won reelection—for the first time in 40 years, a Democrat, Joe Cunningham, is the winner of South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, defeating _____-endorsed Republican Katie Arrington.

Democrat Anthony Brindisi is the winner of the race for New York’s 22nd Congressional District, besting _____ supporter and asshat, Claudia Tenney.

Gay former Marine Neil Rafferty won his race for the State House in Alabama. The seat was vacated by Patricia Todd, Alabama’s first openly gay legislator. 

Chris Pappas is now New Hampshire’s first openly gay member of Congress.

Kris Koback, a _____ lapdog, wanted to be governor of Kansas; Kansans said, ‘No.’

Dana Rohrabacher, one of Putin’s favorite lawmakers, appears to have lost his bid for reelection to represent California's 48th congressional district in Congress.

GOP Governor Scott Walker lost in Wisconsin.

Massachusetts voters have handed a resounding victory for transgender people, voting Yes On 3 and defeating a first-of-its-kind effort to repeal the state’s landmark transgender rights law.

J.D. Ford, another openly gay man, bested Republican Mike Delph, who is best known for his staunch opposition to gay marriage equality.

Sharice Davids made history as the first openly gay Native American elected to Congress in Kansas.

Jennifer Webb, another LGBTQ candidate, and Democrat won a narrow victory to take a seat in Florida’s state Legislature. Webb is the first openly LGBTQ woman elected to that position.

Ayanna Presley has become the first Black congresswoman in Massachusetts.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest person ever in the House of Representatives.

Lauren Underwood wins her House race, becoming the first Black Woman to win her Illinois district.

91% of all the House candidates _____ endorsed lost last night.

Democrats flipped—as of posting time last night—some 28 House seats.

Democrats have flipped 5 governor seats.

Democrats have flipped 4 state legislative chambers.

Democrats took control of the NY State Senate.

Democrats flipped 21 state legislative seats.

Democrats flipped 3 state Supreme Court seats.

Democrats broke the North Carolina GOP supermajority.

Democrats rebuilt the "Blue Wall" in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and that’s a big deal for 2020.

Winning the House means that Adam Schiff, not _____ lapdog Devin Nunes, will chair the House Intel Committee.

Democrats can investigate and check the Trump Administration.

Your votes mattered.

But, no matter what happens, remember this: we are done with Paul Ryan.

And don’t feel bad about the lack of a Blue Tsunami. With wins at local and state levels we are setting the stage for 2020 and beyond; with wins for women and people of color and LGBTQ Americans, we are setting the stage to take the power from old rich white men.

The game is on!

Emmy Fall-Out: Think Before You Tweet, Nancy Lee Grahn ... #WhoIsNancyLeeGrahn

This past Sunday night Viola Davis won an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for How To Get Away With Murder making her the first African-American to ever win that particular award, and this is what she said:

“‘In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me, over that line. But I can’t seem to get there no how. I can’t seem to get over that line.’ That was Harriet Tubman in the 1800s.

And let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there. So here’s to all the writers, the awesome people that are Ben Sherwood, Paul Lee, Peter Nowalk, Shonda Rhimes, people who have redefined what it means to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be a leading woman, to be black.

And to the Taraji P. Hensons, the Kerry Washingtons, the Halle Berrys, the Nicole Beharies, the Meagan Goods, to Gabrielle Union: Thank you for taking us over that line.

Thank you to the Television Academy. Thank you.”

What a moment for Viola Davis, for women of color, to be able to get that award; for young black actresses to see that they can be the lead in a television show and be recognized for their work. And for Viola to call out the industry, to ask that they create roles for women of color everywhere was an amazing thing to do.

Except … not everyone was happy with Viola Davis. Nancy Lee Grahn has been a soap opera actress, most notably appearing on General Hospital for some twenty years, and she had a lot to say, er, Tweet:

“I wish I loved #ViolaDavis Speech, but I thought she should have let @shondarhimes write it. #Emmys”

Oh, sorry Nancy. Sorry that Viola’s speech didn’t move you; sorry the words and the experiences of her nearly thirty year career, and the struggles she’s faced being a woman of color in Hollywood, weren’t up to your standards … soap opera standards. But she did go on:

“Im a fucking actress for 40 yrs. None of us get respect or opportunity we deserve. Emmys not venue 4 racial opportunity. ALL women belittled.”

And here’s the issue. It’s akin to the kerfuffle over the Black Lives Matter movement. Viola Davis wasn’t saying, at all, that it’s only women of color, who are discriminated against, who get no respect in Hollywood, she’s speaking her truth, her experience, what she’s seen, what she knows, and Nancy Lee Grahn cannot fathom that.

And then she went on to suggest that perhaps Viola Davis has not been discriminated against as a black woman in Hollywood:

“I think she's the bees knees but she's elite of TV performers. Brilliant as she is. She has never been discriminated against.”

Yes, Nancy Lee Grahn, a white woman, says she knows that Viola Davis has never felt the sting of discrimination because she’s a brilliant actress — well, she got that part right. But if Viola Davis is the “bee’s knees” as Grahn suggests, then why aren’t there all kinds of Viola, Davis projects out there? Why has it taken thirty years to recognize her talent?

Perhaps it’s because Viola is a dark-skinned woman of color, a subset of women of color, and she’s seen articles in print, and people quoted, saying that she isn’t beautiful or sexy or lead actress enough because her brown skin is a dark brown skin and not a light brown, more palatable to audiences, skin.

Nancy Lee Grahn has no idea what she’s talking about; she completely misheard what Davis said, and turned it into #AllActressesMatter.

“I never mean to diminish her accomplishment. I wish I could get her roles. She is a goddess. I want equality 4 ALL women, not just actors. … I apologize 2 anyone who I offended. I'm women advocate since I became one. After reading responses, I hear u and my tweet was badly phrased.”

Maybe then, Nancy Lee, until you learn to fully form sentences, or until you ask the writers at General Hospital to Tweet for you, you should think before you Tweet, and then, after thinking, and after it becomes clear that you have no idea what you’re talking about, maybe you should just keep quiet.

And the, again, she non-apologized:

“I apologize for my earlier tweets and now realize I need to check my own privilege. My intention was not to take this historic and important moment from Viola Davis or other women of color but I realize that my intention doesn’t matter here because that is what I ended up doing. I learned a lot tonight and I admit that there are still some things I don’t understand but I am trying to and will let this be a learning experience for me.”

Again, Nancy, think before you speak, or Tweet.

I understand that women have it tough in Hollywood, all women, but Viola Davis wasn't onstage speaking for all women; she was speaking of her own stories, her own struggles. And for you to denigrate that because she spoke her truth is just ridiculous.

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