Joe Biden today became the first sitting president to join a union picket line.  Biden specifically said that the UAW should get a  40% raise .  40%?  Yikes.   See his presence  on You Tube.   Donald Trump  visiting Michigan tomorrow to meet with UAW workers. There is the second Republican presidential debate tomorrow.  FOX Business channel from 9-11 PM EDT. No Trump, of course. Seven Republicans.  Anyone know who  Douglas Burgum  is?  Oh, he is a former governor of North Dakota, and  a billionaire . Fox News announced that it will host a November 2023 debate between two governors, Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom. One more political item.  Cassidy Hutchison today released her first book,  Enough .  I saw her on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show yesterday.  She looked better looking than that cover photo.  She'll repeat on CNN's Jake Tapper show today at 4PM EDT. She writes  in more detai...

 Know who this is?  Well, what about this person. That is Don Knotts as both himself and tilefish from  The Incredible Mr. Limpet . This was his first starring role in 1964, and as would be expected, got 40/64 ratings from Rotten Tomatoes.  After all, he was the ultimate wimp. But was he, really, in actual life?  How much do you know about Knotts? He was born Jesse Donald Knotts in Morgantown, Virginia just about a century ago and passed away in 2006.  His mother was 40 at his birth. His father, who had schizophrenia and suffered from alcoholism, terrified the family, and passed away when Don was 13.  Had a terrible childhood, but built up an imagination.  Grew up thin and pale, and never really changed. Turned to ventriloquism while still in high school.  Thus that first photo above with Danny. Became class president. Joined the Army when he first could and toured the western Pacific Islands in a GI variety show called Stars and Gripes, and ...

Nine years ago when I moved from Heaven to Purgatory--yes, I'm the first to be so demoted--I posted: COULD 15 CRAIGSIDE BE PURGATORY? That photo is of both where I came from, on the right, and where I now live.  To quote from that article about why I thought I was in purgatory: The people here are all nice, but, perhaps not perfectly purified, especially me. We're located next door to 2101 Craigside, where   my apartment is close to Heaven . Except for my ocean view side, we are surrounded by graveyards (by the way, that tennis court and pool belongs to 2101 Craigside, where my penthouse apartment will soon be back on sale): Since then I've written about Purgatory on numerous occasions, always on Sundays.  To again quote from  one of these postings in 2016 : You ask, how do I know so much about the laws of Purgatory.  Simple, I just made them up.  However, if anyone out there in the ether can send me verifiable proof of any house rules associated with Purga...