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Despite having resigned my contract I had some hope of sending my client a driver that actually _worked_.

I at least have identified the immediate reason as to why I've been unable to accomplished that but I do not yet understand the root cause.

In other news, I just now had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a banana and a cup of black coffee. That's A Winning Combination!

Actors and fans defend 'Cosby Show' actor after articles job-shame him for working at Trader Joe's

An honest man doing an honest day's work used to be something to be celebrated in America. But it didn't seem like it -- over the Labor Day weekend, of all times -- after actor Geoffrey Owens was spotted at a Trader Joe's in New Jersey, bagging groceries.

It all started with an article in the Daily Mail late last week. A customer at the store in Clifton, New Jersey, spotted Owens -- best known for his role as son-in-law Elvin Tibideaux on "The Cosby Show" -- working as a cashier and snapped a picture.

The image became the basis for the Daily Mail's story under the job-shaming headline, "From learning lines to serving the long line!" The details in the story were just as insulting: "Wearing an ID badge bearing his name, the former star wore a Trader Joe's T-shirt with stain marks on the front as he weighed a bag of potatoes."

The story exploded on social media over the holiday weekend after Fox News picked it up and tweeted out its own version. But the articles seemed to produce a flood of support for Owens, as well as a conversation about job-shaming and classism. Other actors, as well as fans, defended him.

Geoffrey Owens' message to job-shamers: Honor the 'dignity of work'

Leave him alone, he's not a rapist.

It's OK to job shame anyone working at the Daily Mail.

Black Strap Molasses (song)

The song's lyrics discuss popular health foods of the time. The verses make "absurd" claims about the supposed benefits of these foods, and the chorus runs:

Black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread
Makes you live so long you wish you were dead
You add a little yogurt and you'll be well fed
On the black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread.

One contemporary review interpreted the lyrics as referring specifically to the "Live Longer" diet advocated by nutritionist Gayelord Hauser. Hauser, labeled a "quack" by the American Medical Association, gained widespread popularity in the mid-twentieth century promoting "wonder foods" including blackstrap molasses, wheat germ, and yogurt, as well as brewer's yeast and powdered milk. He was known as a nutrition guru to many Hollywood celebrities.

Molasses.

Folks, I've been watching Brett's hearing. And Senator Cornyn from Texas -- great Republican of Texas -- said something so interesting about our Senate. Something I hear from a lot of people. He said the Mob rules it. Mafia guys, if you're listening, we need Brett in that seat!!! oann.com/sen-cornyn-slams-democrats-for-mob-rule-during-kavanaugh-hearing

Folks, I don't know why my Journal looks so STRANGE. There must be something VERY SPECIAL happening with the cyber. And my cyber guys have the day off -- very special day for them and for America. Which we call Labor Day.

Big thanks to General Austin Miller & Gen. John Nicholson from my Army. For working very hard with NATO to Keep Afghanistan Educated!!! NATO says, "oh, let's not fight, let's teach." And they're doing a beautiful job. Believe me, I love the well educated!!! pic.twitter.com/ffvgDKj92A stripes.com/miller-replaces-nicholson-as-us-allied-commander-in-afghanistan-1.545575

Thoughts & prayers for our great, and very brave solider who was wounded in Afghanistan on Monday. And for the family of our amazing soldier that was killed that day!!! foxnews.com/us/2018/09/03/us-service-member-in-afghanistan-dead-in-apparent-insider-attack-on-monday.html

My beautiful military -- not NATO, that's so important -- is fighting very hard to beat ISIS in Afghanistan. And, everywhere. Big victory, my guys whacked one of their top leaders, he was called Abu Sayeed Orakzai. Good riddance!!!! foxnews.com/world/2018/08/26/leader-isis-affiliate-in-afghanistan-killed-in-us-drone-strike-officials-say.html

Previously: NYT: #MeToo Leader/Victim Settled With Her Own Accuser

Just some further developments.

Italian Filmmaker Wears "Weinstein is Innocent" Shirt on 'Suspiria' Red Carpet

Her father directed the original film. The article discusses Italian attitudes towards #MeToo.

Asia Argento's Episodes on Parts Unknown No Longer Streaming After She's Accused of Sexual Assault

CNN has stopped streaming episodes of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown that include Asia Argento after a sexual assault allegation was made against her.

“In light of the recent news reports about Asia Argento, CNN will discontinue airing past episodes of Parts Unknown that included her, until further notice,” a CNN spokesperson tells PEOPLE.

Argento, 42, appeared in the Rome and Southern Italy episodes of the show and directed a Hong Kong episode, during which Bourdain said, “To fall in love with Asia is one thing. To fall in love in Asia is another. Both have happened to me.”

A Buenos Aires episode, which did not feature Argento, was also removed from CNN Go for unspecified reasons, according to BuzzFeed News which was first to report.

Leah McSweeney and Asia Argento’s war of words could escalate

When Penthouse columnist Leah McSweeney lambasted Asia Argento last month in a column called “Can We Talk About Toxic Femininity?,” she was hit with an angry legal letter from Argento’s team, she said.

McSweeney posted the letter on Instagram after she wrote in the opinion column that Argento, who has accused Harvey Weinstein of rape, instead “had a sexual relationship with Weinstein, which resulted in a transactional, consensual union, because — let’s be honest — that’s how Hollywood works.”

Rose McGowan Says Asia Argento Admitted to Sleeping With Young Actor

Rose McGowan, one of the leading voices of the #MeToo movement, said Monday that her partner had exchanged text messages with the actress and director Asia Argento in which Ms. Argento said that she had indeed slept with the actor Jimmy Bennett — an act that Ms. Argento recently denied.

In a lengthy statement, Ms. McGowan also said that her partner — the model Rain Dove — told her that in text messages, Ms. Argento had said that she had been receiving unsolicited nude photos of Mr. Bennett since the time he was 12 years old and had not informed the authorities or told him to stop sending the photos.

So she did the deed, but little Jimmy may have been thirstier than he remembers.

Rain Dove speaks out about Asia Argento allegations

Argento complained, Dove told CNN, that she was being extorted for money by Bennett and initially denied having sex with him. Argento later contradicted herself in an alleged text exchange with Dove, which Dove shared with CNN.

"The Public knows nothing, only what the NYT wrote. Which is one sided. The shakedown letter. The horny kid jumped me...," an alleged text from Argento read.

"So it was rape? Or an attempted sexual action?" Rain Dove replied in a text viewed by CNN.

"I had sex with him it felt weird. I didn't know he was a minor until the shakedown letter," Argento allegedly wrote in response.

2013 photo, with comments

Damage control:

The future of #MeToo: 'The movement is bigger than Asia Argento'

And finally, some real cheese.

Dear $CHIEF_EXECUTIVE_OFFICER,

I hereby resign my contract with $CLIENT_COMPANY, if you will agree to release me from it.

Starting around Wednesday evening last week I want completely out of my Damn tree. Friday evening I dialled 9-1-1 to request ambulance transport to an Emergency Room. I slept there that night then Saturday morning was transported to a psychiatric hospital.

Mental hospitals don't release you when you're completely sane again rather they do so when they feel you're simply capable of living life on your own. This because there is always a shortage of available beds.

It is difficult for me to type this correctly because I am still quite symptomatic.

When I get back to the office I'll make sure I have a clean build of my sources then will send them to you .

This was a small contract; I was to be paid upon completion so there are no considerations about giving any money back.

I gave $CHIEF_EXECUTIVE_OFFICER the contact info for four of my friendly competitors.

Agents Tried to Flip Russian Oligarchs. The Fallout Spread to Trump. (archive)

In the estimation of American officials, Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin, has faced credible accusations of extortion, bribery and even murder.

They also thought he might make a good source.

Between 2014 and 2016, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department unsuccessfully tried to turn Mr. Deripaska into an informant. They signaled that they might provide help with his trouble in getting visas for the United States or even explore other steps to address his legal problems. In exchange, they were hoping for information on Russian organized crime and, later, on possible Russian aid to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, according to current and former officials and associates of Mr. Deripaska. In one dramatic encounter, F.B.I. agents appeared unannounced and uninvited at a home Mr. Deripaska maintains in New York and pressed him on whether Paul Manafort, a former business partner of his who went on to become chairman of Mr. Trump’s campaign, had served as a link between the campaign and the Kremlin.

The attempt to flip Mr. Deripaska was part of a broader, clandestine American effort to gauge the possibility of gaining cooperation from roughly a half-dozen of Russia’s richest men, nearly all of whom, like Mr. Deripaska, depend on President Vladimir V. Putin to maintain their wealth, the officials said.

Two of the players in the effort were Bruce G. Ohr, the Justice Department official who has recently become a target of attacks by Mr. Trump, and Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled a dossier of purported links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The systematic effort to win the cooperation of the oligarchs, which has not previously been revealed, does not appear to have scored any successes. And in Mr. Deripaska’s case, he told the American investigators that he disagreed with their theories about Russian organized crime and Kremlin collusion in the campaign, a person familiar with the exchanges said. The person added that Mr. Deripaska even notified the Kremlin about the American efforts to cultivate him.

"Thanks, but no thanks."

Not only did Congressman Ron DeSantis easily win the Republican Primary, but his opponent in November is his biggest dream........a failed Socialist Mayor named @AndrewGillum who has allowed crime & many other problems to flourish in his city. This is not what Florida wants or needs!

I sat up all night long last night to compost my very latest Wall Of Text.

Don't feel the need to read it all at once.

Or at all: I have just as many if not more Haters than Fans not just of my websites but as well as my great many articles, essays, rants and manifestos.

It's time for a Totally _Righteous_ Reuben Sandwich from one of Downtown Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square food carts.

• The Attention Gift Hypothesis

Off to lunch!