IT'S A ROSSOVER INTO THE MANDYVERSE! As Ross and I are both broadcasting live from the Mighty Millions Raffle House in Winter Park he's joining me for the first half hour of the show! Why? Because we can.
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HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY TO MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS! I've got Father Mike on at 1pm to talk about how important this day is in the Christian religion. It's kind of a big deal. You can watch Father Mike's Easter Sunday mass by clicking here.
WILL RANKED CHOICE VOTING BE BACK? It lost this last time but I had a long conversation with Kent Thiry and he's not going to try to fix a system that incentivizes extremism in the primaries. He joins me at 1:30 to chat about what's coming next. Find out more about Kent by clicking here.
THE MEDICAID GRIFT NEEDS TO END I'm talking to Niklas Kleinworth from the Paragon Institute about how federal Medicaid dollars are being abused by state badly after the Medicaid expansion of Obamacare. Read the story here and we will do a deeper dive today at 2.
IT'S AN ASK ME ANYTHING SORT OF FRIDAY Because why not.
TENNIS IS SO MEAN GIRL I am putting this here because it made me laugh so hard. A British tennis player has apologized to a French player for asking the umpire to tell her to wear deodorant. I feel for this British tennis player.
I DON'T WANT THIS FROM RFK JRS LEADERSHIP I want full transparency and frankly, that's what I voted for. To end the obfuscation and hiding of data that isn't convenient to whatever the agenda is but here we are. A scientist who has been studying the addictiveness of ultra processed food has now resigned because he says his results didn't confirm the addictiveness of those foods. RFK Jr is all about ending ultra processed foods because we eat too many of them, but this research doesn't fit that agenda. Read it here but I am already feeling that the old boss is the same as the new boss when it comes to government hiding inconvenient truths.
THE GOVERNOR VETOES ONE BILL LIMITING TRANSPARENCY After signing several others over the last few years. I want to make sure you know about the multiple ways he has supported Democrat efforts to limit transparency lest you think he's some sort of transparency advocate. Here's your reminder:
Polis has signed other measures that critics said weakened the state's open records and open meetings laws, including legislation carving out an exception to the open records law for college athletes who stand to be paid millions of dollars for their names, images and likenesses from colleges or universities. Last year, he signed SB 24-157, which gave the General Assembly an exemption from the open meetings law for certain activities.
You can read about how he vetoed the bill that would have chosen winners and losers when it comes to who gets public records when.
LET'S END FORMALIZED "TRUSTED ADULT" PROGRAMS Because Jimmy Sengenberger is right when he writes about it here.
DEMOCRAT DROPS INVESTIGATION OF FELLOW DEMOCRAT And I'm talking about Attorney General Phil Weiser dropping an investigation into fellow Democrat Jena Griswold even though her campaign admitted to the violation. But as we know from Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden not being prosecuted for their misdeeds because they didn't MEAN to do it, the same thing is happening here.
BRITISH GUYS TRY MIDWESTERN FOOD And this is funny.
DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO PUT GUN STORES OUT OF BUSINESS And we already know that SB25-003 is going to be a disaster for gun sales in Colorado as people will just likely give up as they realize all the hurdles they have to jump over to buy one. But that's not enough for gun grabbing Democrats, they are now adding more power to a new bureaucracy they already created specifically to create MORE paperwork for gun dealers who are already highly regulated by the Federal government. You can read it here, but if Emily Sirota sponsored it you know it's horrible.
WILL WE WALK AWAY FROM A PEACE DEAL IN UKRAINE? It certainly seems that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is making threats about whether or not we will walk away from peace talks if there is no movement. Read it here, but this seems a bit like reverse psychology to me.
SUPERMAN IS THE BEST OF US PERSONIFIED This is such an interesting story about the impact of Superman throughout his history and his influence on young men who emulate his message of the value of life and hope. It's made me look differently at the Man of Steel.
NOW THE WAY YOU SLEEP IS GOING TO KILL YOU I'm kind of exhausted from all the things that are going to kill me. Now I have to worry about a quicker death because I sleep on my side. It's been a good ride. Find out why your sleep position will kill you, but do you think any of us can change the way we sleep? I doubt it but maybe you have some tips so I don't die so soon.
WE NEED TO ADOPT ANCIENT PERSIAN DECISION MAKING Ancient Persians had a great way of running their society when it came to making big decisions. Check this part out:
“It is their custom to deliberate about the gravest matters when they are drunk,” Herodotus wrote in his texts on Greco-Persian conflicts. “If, being sober, they still approve it, they act on it, but if not, they drop it. And if they have deliberated about a matter when sober, they decide upon it when they are drunk.”
Is it going to be worse than what we have now?
THE BLUE ORIGIN STUNT SHOWS ISN'T BEING WELL RECIEVED Of course celebrity worship will continue, but the response to the self congratulations the women who shot up to space for a full 11 minutes has been less than kind. This column made me burst out laughing on this one:
For the first time in the history of flight, barf bags were needed for spectators on the ground.
Indeed.
TGIF EREBODY It's time for your weekly dose of snark from Nellie Bowles (and Beri Weiss's assistant) at the Free Press. Read it here.
MARIJUANA HAS A PLACE IN CANCER TREATMENT I love that this story says "medical marijuana" but they could just say "marijuana" but whatever. A new study of studies has shown that an overwhelming majority of those studies show positive impacts in several areas, including actually killing and stopping the spread of cancers. Read it here, but I bet you Snoop Dogg isn't gonna get cancer anytime soon.
THERE MAY BE A NEW GLP-1 PILL SOON Though it doesn't seem to have the same effect on A1C it does seem to work for weight loss. We'll see if this is cheaper than the shots. Read more here.
EMPLOYEES ARE PASSIVE AGGRESSIVELY COMING BACK TO THE OFFICE Here is a new word I learned called "coffee badging". What is it? From the story:
Many are “coffee badging,” or swiping their ID badges at the office to record their arrival, staying 30 minutes or so ‒ long enough to greet colleagues and grab a cup of coffee – and then heading back home.
For workers who don’t have to swipe a badge, simply establishing their presence or saying “hi” to some colleagues, dropping by a co-worker’s cubicle, or talking loudly in the hallway before “quietly disappearing” serves a similar purpose, said Christopher Nickson, vice president of Segal Group, a human resources consulting firm.
I betcha those people aren't going to be promoted.
THIS GUY MAKES MONEY BY DOING NOTHING I now have goals although this is really depressing when you think about it.
WHY DO THEIR FEELINGS MATTER LESS? That's the question I have for school boards who won't protect girls sports.
IT'S ALSO PASSOVER RIGHT NOW And if you don't know what Passover it is, the story is really cool.
THE MOST STREAMED SONGS FROM 1960 ON This is so cool.