Oh, Uncle Nino
Published 2:04 pm Friday, December 11, 2015
He heard it on Limbaugh on the way in: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 79 and long known for making comments that are offensive to modern sensibilities, is drawing fire for suggesting that some African-American students might belong at “slower-track” universities.
Perhaps it’s time for the court’s four liberal justices to consult one of those articles about how to handle obnoxious elderly relatives’ unpopular opinions at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
What is that stain on the back seat? After Pizza Hut’s sales tumbled, the chain’s CEO decided it needed to be more like the car-hailing business Uber.
If Uber ever decides it needs to be more like Pizza Hut, it will need to sign up drivers who haven’t cleaned their cars since 2006.
Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Tonight, “Mary Poppins” returns to broadcast television for the first time in 13 years.
Expect commercial breaks so frequent that there will barely be enough time for Julie Andrews to say “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” without interruption.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1925, the nation’s first motel opened in San Luis Obispo, California.
It’s 90 years later, and they STILL haven’t washed the bedspreads.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
