This poll is relatively significant. The WaPo/ABC poll is the only one rated A+ by the statistics nerds at the 538 site.

The key findings are:

  • Trump’s approval has dropped by six points in two months.
  • The drop is correlated to fears of an economic slowdown.
  • We can now see more specifically how Trump is losing the uneducated whites that represent the fundaments of his support. This poll breaks that group down by gender. It turns out that Trump’s support is actually increasing among uneducated white males (now 69%, up 5 points), but is dropping drastically among their female counterparts (now 42%, down 12 points)
  • Trump’s rating is also plummeting among college educated white males. The drop was a precipitous 15 points in just two months, from 49% approval to 34%.

Brainscan, who is our resident expert on grindhouse films and other old-time exploitation fare, created an interesting piece today about two actresses who made surprising contributions after their grindhouse days were over.

Brenda Denault went on to raise a large brood of Arquettes, including Fun House favorites Rosanna and Patricia. As Brainscan noted, “She looks so much like Rosanna in so many ways you cannot help but be impressed.” He is being subtle. The reality is that Rosanna’s mom was so busty that her youthful images almost make Rosanna look like Twiggy in comparison.

Alice Denham has an amazing resume. On the surface, she’s a former Playmate who ended up in no-budget B&W exploitation films, so you’d think she was probably a total bimbo.

Boy, would you think wrong!

She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina (BA in journalism, 1949). That’s a storied program, whose graduates included none other than Thomas Wolfe, arguably the greatest wordsmith America has ever produced. Just a year after receiving her BA, she earned her masters in English Lit from the University of Rochester with a thesis on the plays of T.S. Eliot.

Playboy reprinted her short story, “The Deal,” in her centerfold issue, making her the first Playmate to have authored a fiction piece that appeared in her same issue. (July, 1956).

When she finished her career in exploitation crap, she wrote a tell-all book which was received quite well. Titled “Sleeping With Bad Boys,” it was her account of sexy shenanigans with James Dean, Philip Roth, Hugh Hefner and others. She counted as friends such literary luminaries as Norman Mailer and the famous writers of the 1950’s beat generation.

“Manhattan was a river of men flowing past my door, and when I was thirsty, I drank.”

Alice Denham

She went on to write several more books, and was an adjunct professor of English in the City University of New York. She was known so well in New York literary circles that the N.Y. Times honored her with a lengthy obituary.

An old, old pic of the lead singer of the Plasmatics.

Wendy and I were born in the same hospital, three months apart. She grew up about two miles from me, although those two miles were all water, a large bay of Lake Ontario that split our neighborhoods into completely separate communities that never mixed. Mine was suburban, barely escaping urban. Hers was rural, trying to be suburban.

After childhood, our lives were very different. By the time we were 16, she was hitchhiking around the world and I was probably still trying to organize my baseball cards, possibly up to the “D’s.” By the time we reached our late 20s, she was working in porno and sex shows, and I was probably still on the “M’s.” By 1998, as we were about to turn 50, I had already retired, having raised two families, and was enjoying my new life as Uncle Scoopy as she was putting a bullet through her brain.

There were probably times when I envied her adventurous life and her eventual international fame, but in retrospect, my incredibly boring path through corporate America was a much better choice.

He now leads the majors in homers and owns the NL record for most homers by a rookie. He needs five more in his last 19 games to tie the major league record held by Aaron Judge.

Alonso has almost single-handedly given the Mets an outside chance at the post season. (Per ESPN, they have a 9% chance as I write this.) Last year the Mets finished eight games below .500.