Alex Baldwin has some ‘splainin to do. Rules on Set No clowning around! Anyone pointing firearms at anyone (other than rehearsing) will be wrapped. Do not point at anyone directly within 10 feet. Putting a gun with blanks to your head will blow a piece of your skull into your brain if the trigger is pulled. When the Director, Stunt Coordinator, or weapons specialist, etc. yells “cut”: (1) take your finger out of the trigger guard, and (2) point gun at the ground.
Mail in the Middle East is routinely not delivered. Is this a cultural issue (mail in Riyadh was once dumped in the town square on the chance the crowd might know the addressee) an institutional issue (declining revenues from decreasing first class mailings) or something else? Discuss. Picture is of the main post office in Ho Chi Minh City, often erroneously attributed to Gustav Eiffel. In fact, the building was designed by French architect Alfred Foulhoux.
Identify your Enemy This is probably the most important. Even if you join the large in-house legal department of a mega-corporation like Exxon, there will be an enemy. While the enemy might be individual, it might also be a group. You are in competition with anyone who enters at the same time you do. Contracting departments often are at war with the legal department and if they are successful in getting you fired, it’s one for their team.
They did it again. In the Liberty City 7 case, an FBI freelance troublemaker tried to convince a group of poor black men in Miami to blow up the Willis Tower in Chicago. The building was never at risk. The FBI and the troublemaker provided money, logistics and fake bombs. In another useless sting, Ikaika Kange, a U.S. Army soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was charged with assisting Da’esh, the Islamic State.
Pennsylvania’s senator Fetterman just spent nine days in the hospital. “Sheriff” Herschel Walker is out chasing criminals. Anna Luna (née Meyerhof) is an ethnic impostor. And then there’s George Santos.
Anna Paulina Luna George Santos Rachel Dolezal Sherry Stanley Jimenez William Montgomery McGovern Nelson Scott Simpson Vijay Chokal Ingam Chico Colon Meridan George Herriman Gregory Markopoulos John Roland Redd Archibald Belaney Sacheen Littlefeather Sen. Elizabeth Warren Jessica Krug Jeannine Cummins
Anna Paulina Luna George Santos Rachel Dolezal Sherry Stanley Jimenez William Montgomery McGovern Nelson Scott Simpson Vijay Chokal Ingam Chico Colon Meridan George Herriman Gregory Markopoulos John Roland Redd Archibald Belaney Sacheen Littlefeather Sen. Elizabeth Warren Jessica Krug Jeannine Cummins
After four days of using polypropylene currency: I don’t like it. It doesn’t fold. It only bends. It’s slippery like a register receipt. It slides out of your pocket onto the floor. I don’t want to be a Luddite. I thought I would like the new money. It doesn’t tear, and if you forget and leave bills in a pocket while doing the wash, they will be cleaned but not destroyed.