Operatic Lip-Synching!

Here's some La Boheme opera heroics for you, as seen at the WQXR blog and the Evening Standard:  "When Ayan developed vocal difficulties in Act II, Castronovo jumped up to sing his part from the wings, while Ayan continued acting the part."

(This is a classier and more difficult version of the end of "Singin' in the Rain", when Debbie Reynolds is singing behind the curtain while Jean Hagen mouths the words in front of the audience.)

Double Jeopardy

No, I can’t imagine Jeopardy without Alex Trebek – but I also couldn’t imagine Jeopardy without Art Fleming! Just please don’t replace these smooth, melodious men with a woman.

Homecoming for Korean War Vets

What a touching honorable carry ceremony today at Hickam Field in Hawaii for the 55 Korea War vets!  I couldn't look away from the TV images, and I felt very proud of my country at that moment.

The Dems Need Their Heads Examined (At Your Expense, Of Course!)

Read this column by Charles C. Cooke that includes these important and scary facts:

"So the Sanders 'Plan' is going to save money. And all we need to do to get to that happy state of affairs is:

• Force every doctor and hospital in America to accept Medicare reimbursement rates for all patients — these are 40 percent lower than the rates paid by private insurance — while assuming that this would have absolutely no effect on their capacity or willingness to provide services
• Raise taxes by 10 percent of GDP — overnight
• Explain to the 150 million people with private insurance that the rules have been changed so dramatically that (a) they can no longer keep their plans, and (b) henceforth, tens of millions among them will be paying more in taxes than they were previously paying in both premiums and out-of-pocket costs 
  

Easy!"

A Few Good Links

Want some more good links? Then visit Let's Review #107 at the always interesting American Digest!

Also enjoyable is Live Blog at PJ Media.

Good Friday Links

Read Jim Swift's Afternoon Links at the Weekly Standard. I particularly liked the link to these photos of Famous Landmarks, Before They Were Finished.

If that's not enough, try the Live Blog at Pajamas Media.

Lots 'o Links

It's time again to read the best of the web at Maggie's Farm, Larwyn's Linx, and Betsy's Page!

Also, check out the Thursday Links by Debby Witt at The Corner.

Don't Fumph - or Even Fumfeh!

This edition of Harold Ticktin's Yiddish Vinkl contains a particular favorite of mine, although I've always spelled it differently.

He has it as fumfeh, meaning to mumble. We grew up pronouncing it as fumph, as in "stop fumphing"!

Lots 'o Links

Get ready for the weekend with these posts at Maggie's Farm, Betsy's Page, and Larwyn''s Linx!

The above cartoon by A.F.Branco was seen at Liberty Unyielding today.

Anti-Trump McCarthyism

This is just outrageous: "A cafe in California was protested by an anti-Trump group and had its membership from the local Chamber of Commerce revoked because its owner supports President Trump.
Asher Shalom, the owner of Asher Caffé & Lounge, said on 'Fox & Friends' Thursday that leftists in his community of Boyle Heights have taken exception to his support for Trump's immigration policies.
Shalom told Brian Kilmeade that as a legal immigrant who came to America 30 years ago, he takes issue with those coming to the country illegally.
He said that the majority of his 70 employees are immigrants."

What will these anarchists do next, shut businesses down completely?

And do I detect a little antisemitism here? Every Jew in Boyle Heights and surrounding communities should patronize the Asher Caffé & Lounge if they don't already do so!