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 Once again, the Academy Awards are under fire for cutting their memorial segment short on Sunday, leaving out a number of stars who passed away, including Tom Sizemore, who passed away earlier this month. The Academy is trying to tune into today's technology, offering a QR scan code so that viewers could see the complete list on the Academy website.

As usual, they don't realize that not everyone owns a computer or a smartphone. On the plus side, the segment began with John Travolta honoring Olivia Newton-John.

Also on Sunday, host Jimmy Kimmel, without mentioning his name, put Tabloid Carlson on blast for attempting to gaslight his audience last week by cherry-picking portions of the 40,000+ hours of video supplied to Carlson by Kevin "The Body Snatcher" McCarthy. Carlson certainly deserves it, and so should McCarthy, who is giving fellow GOPers like Empty G everything they asked for, diluting his power as speaker of the house.

Then, the other day, McCarthy claimed he would slow release the footage for the rest of the media outlets. That's not going to work. I honestly believe it's way past time the Federal Communications Commission sanctioned Carlson for his nightly gaslighting under the heading of "opinions".

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When are right wingers going to learn not to mess with Alex From The Block?

I refer, of course, to NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who now is possibly facing a suit from conservative jackass Alex Stein, just because AOC used her rights to block Stein on Twitter. Some commenters online believe Stein has become obsessed with AOC.

Hate to break it to you guys, but she's spoken for.

Late last year, AOC got engaged to her boyfriend in NYC, so Stein is SOL. His suit is a desperate cry for attention. Professionally, he's a comedian, but the only place he'd be welcome would be on Greg Gutfeld's Fox No News show. Wouldn't be surprised if Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, et al roasted Stein on their shows.

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Amidst the torrent of books being kept off school and public library shelves in Florida, per Governor Ron DeStupid and his thought police, are some books by best selling author Jodi Picoult, and she isn't having it.

According to Picoult, a lone, anonymous parent cited one of her books as containing adult romance, which Picoult denies. Sounds to me like this parent heard about the book second or third hand from a friend, and decided to take up the cause without bothering to check the facts, that is, actually reading the book.

This is what DeStupid has wrought. He has empowered his ill informed base to be glorified library nannies. I wonder what these idiots would think if they knew Picoult had dabbled as a comic book writer a number of years back, chronicling the exploits of a certain iconic Amazon. Yep. Wonder Woman. If DeStupid decides to censor graphic novels, count on Marvel (a unit of Disney) and DC (Warner Bros. Discovery), among others, to fight back. It's a battle that would expose DeStupid as the fraud he is, because a lot of his legislation is actually illegal, but, blinded by political ambition, he doesn't care. He'll care when he loses next year, if not sooner.