Men's Lifestyle February 27, 2026 0 Comments

Why Is the GOP Still Hung Up on Hillary? The Strange Obsession You Didn’t See Coming!

Here we go again — another round in the never-ending saga of the GOP taking a swing at Hillary Rodham Clinton, only to end up flat on their behinds. You’d think after Trey Gowdy’s 11-hour Benghazi marathon, which turned into a spectacular display of political pyrotechnics gone wrong, someone in the Republican ranks would have learned to pick their battles a bit better. But no, the show must go on. This week, the spotlight shifted to Representative James Comer’s Oversight Committee grilling HRC on Jeffrey Epstein — only to find out it was more flash than substance. Hillary, ever the seasoned fighter, came prepared with a verbal nuclear device in her opening statement that punched well above the committee’s weight. So, the question looms: When will the political hunters realize that trying to corner this particular lion only ends up feeding it? Buckle up — this ride is just getting started. LEARN MORE

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(Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian)

Will they never learn?

Three generations of Republican congresscritters have tried on Hillary Rodham Clinton and every last damn one of them has come out on the short end. Whatever became of Trey Gowdy anyway? He and his committee went at her for 11 hours on Benghazi and she left them as a pile of smoking meat by the side of the road. Before that, there were the billing records, and the cattle futures, and Filegate, and Travelgate, and whatever else the ratfcker escadrille could come up with when her husband was president. And lest we forget, everything she said about the current president in their debates has come true in spades since 2016.

So on Thursday she was called before Representative James Comer’s Oversight Committee and Live Bait Shoppe to answer questions for six hours about Jeffrey Epstein. But it was over before it started. HRC was savvy enough to release her opening statement before the closed committee session began. And in the arsenal of opening statements, this was a neutron bomb. A selection:

Instead, you have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump’s actions and to cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers. This institutional failure is designed to protect one political party and one public official, rather than to seek truth and justice for the victims and survivors, as well as the public who also want to get to the bottom of this matter. My heart breaks for the survivors. And I am furious on their behalf.

If this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his involvement; it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files. If the majority was serious, it would not waste time on fishing expeditions. There is too much that needs to be done. What is being held back? Who is being protected? And why the cover-up?

Reportedly, the Republicans eventually resorted to asking HRC about the old Pizzagate bullshit and about UFOs. She breaks their brains. Always did.

The materials are F.B.I. memos summarizing interviews the bureau did in connection to claims made in 2019 by a woman who came forward after Mr. Epstein’s arrest to say she had been sexually assaulted by both Mr. Trump and the financier decades earlier, when she was a minor. The existence of the memos was revealed in an index listing the investigative materials related to her account, which was publicly released. According to that index, the F.B.I. conducted four interviews in connection with her claims and wrote summaries about each one. But only one of the summaries, which describes her accusations against Mr. Epstein, was released by the Justice Department. The other three are missing. The public files also do not include the underlying interview notes, which the index also indicates are part of the file. The Justice Department released similar interview notes in connection to F.B.I. interviews with other potential witnesses and victims.

Anybody who has been following the Epstein news has been familiar with this story for two or three weeks now. It has set social media alight, and it has been the private preserve of the Substack account of Roger Sollenberger

The important thing about the above passage, however, is not what’s in it but where it appeared. In The New York Times. This story is not going away.

Weekly WWOZ Pick to Click: “Gin House Blues” (Nina Simone): Yeah, I still pretty much love New Orleans.

Weekly Visit to the Pathé Archives: Here, from 1961, we see a relocation by sea of a town on an island in eastern Canada. And you thought getting stuck behind a house on the highway was a pain. Special kudos to the little kid who’s chasing the rabbit. History is so cool.

There were a number of my former colleagues in the sportswriting biz who expressed alarm and disapproval when the president and the FBI director horned in on the USA men’s hockey team’s locker-room celebration. They warned the players that they were being used by a narcissistic president for the purposes of stolen glory. Many of these colleagues found themselves shouted down by the manly macho men of Xwitter and elsewhere. On Thursday, all of those people who shouted the warnings were proved to be correct. From The Guardian:

US ice hockey star Brady Tkachuk has said he does not appreciate an AI video released by the White House that shows him insulting Canadians. Tkachuk played in the Americans’ victory over Canada at the Winter Olympics on Sunday, which secured the US men their first gold medal since 1980. In the wake of that win, the White House’s TikTok account published video of Tkachuk saying: “They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup eating fuckers a lesson.”

Tkachuk never said those words, and the video, which has had more than 10 million views, is labeled as AI generated.

“Well, it’s clearly fake, because it’s not my voice, not my lips moving,” Tkachuk said on Thursday. “I’m not in control of any of those accounts. I know that those words would never come out of my mouth. So, I can’t do anything about it.”

Welcome to the Trump Train, Brady. Or, more accurately, under it.

Discovery Corner: Hey, look what we found! From Smithsonian:

Most galaxies shine brightly with the light of the billions of stars inside them. But some galaxies contain few stars and are so dominated by dark matter—the mysterious stuff that makes up most of our universe—that they’re almost invisible. Detecting these dim galaxies is hard work. Dark matter doesn’t emit or reflect any light, but it does interact with gravity. The researchers looked through archival images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to find groupings of globular clusters, small concentrations of stars that orbit normal galaxies and that can indicate the presence of a hidden population of faint stars. The team found ten previously confirmed low-surface-brightness galaxies and two dark galaxy candidates. Then, to confirm one of the candidates, they turned to Hubble, the European Space Agency’s Euclid, and Japan’s Subaru Telescope. Hubble found a tight group of four globular clusters in the Perseus galaxy cluster, 300 million lightyears from Earth. Further studies using all three observatories revealed a faint glow surrounding the globular clusters. This, according to the researchers, is evidence of a hidden galaxy.

Hidden galaxies! And a big scoop for my favorite machine.

Hey, NBC News, is it a good day for dinosaur news? It’s always a good day for dinosaur news!

Researchers have found a well-preserved and nearly complete skeleton of one of the world’s smallest-known dinosaurs, named Alnashetri cerropoliciensis. It was about the size of a crow and probably hunted small animals like lizards, snakes, mammals and invertebrates. The fossil, preserved with the bones positioned as they would have been in life, offers insight into alvarezsaurs, an unusual family of dinosaurs within the group called theropods that spans all the meat-eating dinosaurs.

Tiny carnivore. Probably not a good house pet.

“Alnashetri is truly tiny. Weighing in around 1.5 pounds, it is smaller than a chicken,” said University of Minnesota paleontologist Peter Makovicky, lead author of the research published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. “It wouldn’t even reach knee height on an average adult person.”

But it would nibble on your shins. Instead, it lived then to make us happy now.

I’ll be back on Monday for whatever fresh hell awaits. Be well and play nice, ya bastids. Stay above the snake-line and wear the damn masks, and take the damn shots, especially the boosters and any New One. In your spare time, spare a thought for the victims and their families in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada, and for the brilliant journalists of The Washington Post, and for the citizens of the occupied city of Minneapolis, and for all the people suffering from the severe cold brought by the current polar vortex, and for all of us in the path of Snowpocalypse I of 2026, and Bomb Cycle No. 1, and the people in the flooded areas of southern Africa, and in the flooded areas in Ireland, and in the flooded areas of Brazil, and for people suffering from the outbreaks of measles, a particularly brutal flu, and Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in Harlem, and for our LGBTQ+ citizens, who deserve so much more from this country than they’re getting.