After reinventing late-night, Adweek's Media Visionary is doing the same with podcasting.
Something that I try to remind myself of is—because things are changing so rapidly and there’s so much entertainment out there—my mantra is always: Don’t be judgmental. Comedians are famously judgmental, [along the lines of] “I have very strong opinions about what’s funny, or what’s good. And this I think doesn’t quite meet the standard.” I just keep telling myself it’s all changing so quickly. Don’t calcify. Don’t get stuck in your ways. Don’t get judgmental. Be open to trying new things. Have some humility. And don’t be afraid. I’ve been really blessed and had an amazing career, but I’ve also been through a lot of turbulence. I think what has helped me is there’s some small part of me that always says, “OK, get up. Let’s get back in there. Let’s try again.”
Thanks go to @gobbluthlesbian for bringing this excellent interview to my attention. You're the best!🧡
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2017 by Jason Lynch (AdWeek)
5. Better Call Saul (AMC)
This shouldn’t be possible, but Breaking Bad producers Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould have created a prequel to one of TV’s all-time best shows that, if this impressive trend of season-to-season creative leaps continues, will ultimately end up close in stature to the show that inspired it. Bob Odenkirk continued to be a revelation in Season 3 as he accelerated the moral slide that will transform him from Saul's Jimmy McGill to Breaking Bad's Saul Goodman. Adding Giancarlo Esposito’s Gus Fring (Breaking Bad's most memorable baddie) to the mix this season made things even more riveting, and I still don’t understand how Michael McKean’s devastating turn as Odenkirk’s brother Chuck didn’t get an Emmy nomination.
Can you litigate stupid? They're sure going to try!
Marcie Jones at Wonkette:
In a world of disheartening news, let us enjoy Judge Ana Reyes’s epic scorching of Trump lawyers in court, in a hearing that will continue today!
ICYMI, Donald Trump banned trans people from serving in the military (again) with his “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” Executive Order, which followed his bonkers order about sexes producing large and small reproductive cells that actually proclaimed everybody is nonbinary, because his administration does not actually understand how biological sex works.
Then Defense Secretary Shitfaced, AKA Pete Hegseth, followed that up with a memorandum “pausing” all “medical procedures” associated with “facilitating a gender transition.”
So that got Bone Spurs and Secretary Shitfaced immediately sued by transgender people actively pursuing enlistment, and transgender service members — some of them much longer-serving and more qualified than Hegseth— who are represented by Jennifer Levi of GLAD Law and Shannon Minter from the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), in a case called Talbott v. Trump. And the government’s case is being defended by DOJ attorney Jason Lynch, who also happened to be on the team prosecuting Hunter Biden. Here’s a picture of him from LinkedIn, so you can better picture him being humiliated in the story to come.
So now to court, where the case just happened to get the first openly gay DC federal judge. And would you believe that the DOJ struggled mightily and failed miserably to come up with any defense whatsoever?
The following is compiled from transcriptions by Michael Paulauski, Kyle Cheney and The Independent, to the best of our wonkability. Grab a bag of Cheez Balls for this one, it’s real good!
First, Judge Reyes got both sides to agree that it's reasonable for the US military to prioritize lethality and readiness and that the White House is owed deference to oversee the military. Sure! And she got DOJ lawyer Jason Lynch to agree that the plaintiffs served honorably, truthfully and with discipline, and made America safer, and that they had already all been determined to be mentally and physically fit to serve by the military, gender dysphoria and all.
Queried the judge: “If you were in a foxhole, you wouldn’t care about these individuals’ ‘gender ideology,’ right?” Lynch agreed. And would Lynch pick one of the plaintiffs in that circumstance over someone with less experience? Why, you betcha!
And it was all downhill from there for Lynch. He tried to argue that Trump’s executive order on military service by transgender people does not bar all transgender people serving in the military, which was reportedly baffling to the judge, and anyone else with eyeballs who read the order. What other conclusion could anybody come to from the sentence “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service”? Or the part where it accuses trans service members of being mentally ill and unable to adhere to an honor code that requires a “commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life”? (Hoo boy, is that rich coming from Hegseth! And Trump!)
Then the judge zeroed right in on the bullshit about pronouns: “The Secretary shall promptly issue directives for DoD to end invented and identification-based pronoun usage to best achieve the policy outlined in section 2 of this order,” and the order’s whinings that President Joe Biden’s policy was “inconsistent with shifting pronoun usage or use of pronouns that inaccurately reflect an individual’s sex.”
Love this. Trump’s anti-trans military EO’s defense got scorched.
See Also:
LGBTQ Nation: Federal judge mocks Donald Trump’s “frankly ridiculous” trans military ban
The Advocate: Federal judge roasts Trump DOJ attorney over ‘frankly ridiculous’ claims in transgender military ban case
Law Dork: DOJ lawyer tells judge animus wouldn't be the end for Trump's anti-trans military EO
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The first cookbook I am reviewing this season is Chef Jason Lynch’s
