I realize that Tony Soprano is wearing Italian spiral sausages, not sausage links, but they’re close enough. Besides, the look of disgust on his mother-in-law’s face made it a must post featured image. Lady, your daughter married a gangster, what did you expect?

I seem to be six pack obsessed right now, which is odd since I haven’t imbibed any beer since I last bled and whacked my head: something I’m not nostalgic about. I did, however, recently rewatch the episode from whence the featured image came, Marco Polo. It has nothing to do with this fakakata Gary Cooper movie:

Tony Soprano was a Gary Cooper fan. He often lamented the loss of the “strong silent type” although he was neither. Tony rarely shut up even whilst wearing meat in tubes.

A quick point about the Ronna Romney McDaniel fiasco. Jamie O covered it in detail, but I feel like piling on. Why would NBC hire someone who is such a sycophant that she dropped Romney from her name because Trump hates her uncle? I wouldn’t change my name even if the Soprano crew threatened to grind me into bone shards at the Pork Store for disrespecting Da Bing.

That opening was apropos of nothing, but I finally have links to share. If you don’t like them, grill me about them later. I’ll throw some music on the barbie after each entry because I can. Hmm, six packs are often cans. Is that significant?

The Comeback Kid: TPM’s Josh Kovensky has written a great piece about Paul Manafort’s unwelcome return. It’s just a trial balloon but it’s an ominous one. Convicted felons aren’t usually found in the inner circles of national campaigns.

Click here to be amazed by the chutzpah of it all.

SACKER is an insider acronym for the Society for American Civic Renewal. It’s a sinister-n-secretive group of right-wing business types who want America to have a Christo-Fascist government. It’s another TPM story by Josh Kovensky. Josh Marshall keeps him busy. I’m not joshing about that.

Here’s a song by a third Josh, which kinda sorta circles back to our meaty opening:

The Puppetmaster Speaks: Andrew Weissmann and his NYU law school colleague Ryan Goodman have written an excellent piece rebuking SCOTUS. They can’t be rebuked enough as far as I’m concerned. I dig the title too: The Supreme Court Is Shaming Itself.

What Took So Long? The NYT’s Glenn Thrush and Adam Goodman have a detailed account as to why DOJ moved so slowly on the Trump cases. There’s nothing shocking but it fills in many details.

It seems that the powers that be at DOJ underestimated Trump’s enduring appeal in the wake of the Dipshit Insurrection. The Turtle made the same mistake even if the fuckers at Politico and its spin offs think McConnell is an oracle and even an ace.

The WaPo “Hit Job” That Freaked Out Kim Mulkey: LSU women’s basketball coach and odious wingnut Kim Mulkey pitched a fit last weekend. She threatened to sue the WaPo over a yet to be published profile of her. Holy Trumpy move, Batman.

The writer Mulkey claims is out to get her is Kent Babb. The earlier “hit job” was a 2022 story he wrote about sleazy LSU head football coach Brian Kelly. In fact, Kelly is a supporting character in a story about how LSU neglects academics in favor of athletics. That’s why Mulkey is ragging on the WaPo? Hold that Tiger:

Tales Of Tacky Taki: I’m proud of my Hellenic heritage but unlike my late father, I know that all Greeks aren’t nice. There’s a harrowing story in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis about a Greek with whom even Lou wouldn’t claim consanguinity. His name is Taki Theodoracopulos and Lewis calls him The British Right’s Favorite Sex Offender. Ugh, just ugh.

Now that’s tacky, so is this:

That concludes this six pack of links. That last story left a vile taste in my mouth. Let’s try eradicating it with some Sugar, Sugar. The last word goes to Wilson Pickett: