Richard Switzer

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Product guy & Torontonian. CBC, Globe and Mail, TWG, eCampusOntario, Bad Gateway, PaymentEvolution. Old hipster-> hip oldster.

New York Times article May 11, 2026: • Safari The general manager of President Trump's golf club in Bedminster, N.J., has offered suggestions to guide the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and helped recruit one of the contractors for the job, according to federal documents and a government spokeswoman. The manager, David Schutzenhofer, who has run the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster since 2006, is a private citizen with no known training in engineering or architecture. An Interior Department spokeswoman said Mr. Schutzenhofer had advised the government on the repair project without becoming a temporary government employee. Had he become one, he would have been required to take ethics training and pledge to avoid contlicts of interest. "Mr. Schutzenhofer is unpaid and is volunteering his time to offer suggestions on this project because he is an American patriot," the spokeswoman, Katie Martin, said in an email. She called Mr. Schutzenhofer a world-renowned leader in the hospitality industry and said he did not "direct" any federal contracts.
Jimmy and Chuck McGill from “Better Call Saul”
Screenshot showing a table titled “Here are the top 10 U.S. states by number of tax returns reporting over $1 million in annual income (AGI), based on 2022 IRS data.” The table has three columns: Rank, State, and Million-dollar tax returns. The rows are: 1. California — approximately 128,900 2. Florida — approximately 77,670 3. Texas — approximately 73,930 4. New York — approximately 69,780 5. New Jersey — approximately 31,390 6. Massachusetts — approximately 27,270 7. Illinois — approximately 24,000 8. Washington — approximately 21,530 9. Connecticut — approximately 16,320 10. Pennsylvania — approximately 15,000
Some silly nonsense about Adobe spending a huge chunk of marketing dollars to push software that nobody wants onto customers that are never going to show up in the first place. There is only one winner here, and that’s the storyteller with an incredible track record of convincing media executives with hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal to indulge in kayfabe ‘media empire, but cool’ fantasies.
Transcript of Chris Hayes podcast discussing Bill McKibben’s book ‘Here Comes The Sun’
Colin Powell holds up a vial he said could contain anthrax as he presents evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs to the United Nations Security Council. | Elise Amendola/AP Photo
Screenshot text: The triumph, for some, was short-lived. Construction costs ballooned and by 1993, the publicly owned Stadium Corporation was more than $400-million in debt. The province assumed full control, but in 1998, the corporation declared bankruptcy and sold the facility to a private consortium. Several years later, a Canadian telecommunications giant bought it for $25-million and renamed it, to the lasting consternation of many, the Rogers Centre.
Refugees can often wait years in camps around the world before they are processed and approved to travel to the United States. Before the first Trump administration, refugee resettlement took an average of 18 to 24 months, according to the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group for immigrants. Many refugees must wait years longer. The Afrikaners, however, had to wait no more than three months. The arrival of the white South Africans comes after Mr. Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee admissions when he came into office. Then, in February, Mr. Trump created an exception for the resettlement of Afrikaners, while also cutting all U.S. financial assistance to South Africa.
Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti from the HBO series Silicon Valley
Black and white photo of a punk band performing in a small club