How can you ever be unhappy when you live in a world with music...

... and a guy who does this —



Thanks to my son John for sending me that... after I sent him this...



Both videos are by Doodle Chaos, and there's more Doodle Chaos here.

AND: You can see Doodle Chaos as one of a group of 6 individuals who call themselves The Lemonade Machine at the end of this video which shows an elaborate device which could also be called The Lemonade Machine:

The entrepreneurial wisdom of Stormy Daniels. (No wonder she was a good match for Donald Trump.)

I'm reading "Interest in Stormy Daniels is surging on Pornhub" (WaPo):

... And while it’s not clear that [Stormy Daniels will] prevail in that legal fight [to get out from under her non-disclosure agreement], it is clear that her appearance in the news has been good for her marketability. Searches for Daniels’s name are skyrocketing.... And each subsequent time Daniels has made headlines for her alleged affair with Trump — when she appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Show... searches for her name have spiked again....

“I have two choices,” Daniels told Rolling Stone of the Trump scandal. “Sit at home and feel sorry for myself, or make lemonade out of lemons.”

Led Zeppelin said it best:



The top-rated comment at WaPo uses a device I'm seeing in the comedy subgenre of mocking Trump*:

I don't see what all the hullabazoo is over some sleazy, oversized, fake-tanned, fake-blonde trashy prostitute who crawled out of the sewer just to spew forth a bunch of garbage in hopes of being more famous.

Why would anyone care?

About Trump, I mean?

And then, also in WaPo, there's a Petula Dvorak essay touting Stormy Daniels alongside "the female pioneers of the porn industry":

You hear “porn,” and you may think predatory guys with cameras in warehouses... But ever since Edison and his kinetoscope, there have been women... who have emerged as entrepreneurs in an industry made for men and run by men....

“This industry is filled with strong, smart, very business-savvy women,” [said Lynn Comella, associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at University of Nevada Las Vegas]. “They are calling the shots as directors and CEOs,” and they “are willing to stand up for themselves.”

Given the female power players who survive and thrive in such a cutthroat field, she said, “I’m not surprised to see it’s an adult performer” taking on Trump.

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* Trump used it on himself at the Gridiron dinner on March 4th:

I won't rule out direct talks with Kim Jong-Un. I just won't. As far as the risk of dealing with a madman is concerned, that's his problem, not mine.

Of course, now the direct talks are on. And look! Now, it seems that Kim Jong-Un is cracking jokes about himself. Keep thinking, keep talking, keep joking — maybe there's enough lemonade for everyone.

"When life gives you lemonade..."

"... make a highly caffeinated, alcoholic lemon-flavored drink."

The state and the kid's lemonade stand.

Cute girl sells lemonade, state says not without a $120 license.

What to do about the kid's lemonade stand?
	The government should do nothing and people should buy the lemonade to encourage the child.
	The government should do nothing and people should buy the lemonade if they actually want lemonade.
	The government should do nothing and you should avoid the possibly contaminated lemonade.
	The government should treat it like any other food vendor to protect the public health.
	The government should regulate, but with gentle restraint.
	The government should ban the sale of food and drink by children.
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"This guy is the embittered Dr Bronner of the west coast soft-drink trade."

Cory Doctorow encounters a lemonade label.