Entertainment Overnight -- Excellent Reminder Edition

Remember everyone, especially now, even in the middle of a pandemic...


Good night, y'all.

Sleep well. Be and stay safe and well.

Entertainment Overnight -- "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist"

Everyone needs to see and know and be aware of this. As it says it's from the Broadway play "Avenue Q." Great, great, even fun play. Important subject and subjects.

Song for a Pandemic

It's only for now.

Entertainment Overnight -- Flashback

John Edwards' song, for the foreseeable future

John Edwards indicted over affair cover-up

One great week for the President--and the country

President Obama began the week late Sunday evening, announcing that our Navy Seals had gone in, found Osama bin Laden and killed him.

He--and we--end the week with fantastic good news about employment:

Jobless Rate Rises To 9.0 Percent; April Jobs Up 244,000

The report suggests businesses are confident in the economy despite weak growth earlier this year.

America's employers in April added more than 200,000 jobs for the third straight month, the biggest hiring spree in five years.

The Labor Department reported Friday that the economy added 244,000 jobs last month. Private employers shrugged off high gas prices and created 268,000 jobs — the most since February 2006.

The job gains were widespread. Retailers, factories, financial companies, education and health care and even construction companies all added jobs. Federal, state and local governments cut jobs.

And sure, nothing lasts, this is only "for now" as the song in "Avenue Q" would attest, but it's good news, even if it is just for right now.  And in both cases, the good news for him is good news for the country.  It's good news for us.  All of us.  All Americans, regardless of political affiliation.

Add to that that it's a brilliant and beautiful day with not a cloud in the sky, lots of sunshine, mild, wonderful temperatures and it adds up to a great day, a terrific one for a "First Friday" downtown and an outstanding weekend.

Enjoy, y'all.  Think happy, positive thoughts.

No ethics in Kansas government?

You know you have problems as a state if you don't even have rules regarding conflicts of interest and ethics regarding your representatives.

Such is the case in Kansas right now.

According to KMBC: "House rules don't spell out what constitutes misconduct worthy of a reprimand, censure or expulsion."

And yet House Speaker Mike O'Neal is "representing businesses, trade groups and insurance funds in a lawsuit against the state."

Check that out--the House Speaker, whose job is to represent the State and the people in it, is also representing business groups AGAINST the State of Kansas, in a lawsuit.

And there's no rules against this seemingly crystal clear conflict of interest.

If you're a business that wants to file or has filed a lawsuit against your own state, can you imagine having any more preferred attorney representing you than the Speaker of the House of Representatives?

That is, if you can make that fly.

And/or there are no ethics rules against it in your state.

Notes to the citizens of Kansas:

1) You need conflict of interest rules for your legislators;

2) Your legislators should have written them a long time ago (again, quoting KMBC: "The House last appointed a committee to review a member's conduct in 1951.";

3) You need them quickly. Now would be a good time;

4) In words from the Broadway play "Avenue Q": "It sucks to be you".