Just Dance? Longshot libertarian-leaning Maine GOP Senate candidate Eric Brakey is going head-first into damage control mode to respond to a bizarre video of him dancing in a speedo in what appears to be a hotel room. How? By releasing his own video, totally owning it. Brakey, aligned with both Rand and Ron Paul, stands little chance of joining the upper body in his race against incumbent Angus King. Despite his long ties to Pine Tree State, Brakey, like me, is a native of Shaker Heights, Ohio. At 29, were he to somehow win, he’d join the rare group of Senators (Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Russell Long, Robert La Follette, etc.) who won before or at the constitutional age of 30. He probably won’t, though.
Why can’t you let the kids just sell water? A lot of things went viral in the last week, and it’s hard to keep up. Joining BBQ Becky (who called cops on black folks cooking some BBQ in a public park) is now Permit Patty, who phoned cops when a young black girl was selling water on the street. McSweeney’s has a satirical take on the best wireless plans for racist white women.
My inner libertarian cringes when people don’t want to let people be when they’re harming nobody, but my moral self gets outraged when people are doing it in a way that appears, on its face, to be racist. The kicker here? Permit Patty’s contributions to society is basically selling weed to pets. Seriously.
Read Adam White! If you’re a daily reader of Prufrock, and I know you are, you definitely saw Micah Mattix’s write-up of frequent contributor Adam J. White’s #longread at The New Atlantis. Take some time and make sure you soak up all of Adam’s wisdom about why we should be worried about Google.
You Woke? If you’re not, Tracey Ullman will have you rolling.
When you so woke, you asleep. ? pic.twitter.com/USEgKWPExM
— BBC Comedy (@bbccomedy) June 22, 2018
JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! Didn’t you hear? The disgraced former mayor of the Queen City is without a show. Was Jerry Springer just not controversial enough for 2018?
Will Long Island elect a felon? Take this guy’s advice and don’t vote for the felon. He’s the rare staffer who worked for both people in the race.
An extended member of the Swift Family does good! This story out of Alaska was my favorite read over the weekend. A southerner went to Alaska on her own Chris McCandless journey, and got in serious trouble. And who helped save her? A dog! Dogs are awesome.
Where Mitt stands on the Trump agenda. Mitt Romney is on the ballot in Utah tomorrow, where he’s probably going to win. How does he tap dance with Trump? Read his statement on the matter. I think it’s generally a good view, but when Romney says:
… you open yourself up to being asked about what a president who says and Tweets all sorts of those things on a daily basis. You may not intend to make it a daily commentary, but by pledging to speak out when the president does so, you open yourself up to having to comment on it ad infinitum. Because let’s be honest, between now and November, there are going to be 300+ instances where members of the press will ask you to “speak out.” A tactical mistake from a campaign standpoint, but not a fatal one.
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