Johnny Depp - The Monday Morning Memo

In an interview in 2003, Depp explained how Pepe Le Pew is driven by his own objectives and goals and has a tendency to drift in and out of other people’s lives. And of course, there’s that unshakeable confidence.

“What I loved about Pepe Le Pew was this guy who was absolutely convinced that he’s a great ladies man. And he’s a skunk. Watching those cartoons, this guy falls in love, deeply falling in love with this cat. The cat clearly despises him, but Pepe Le Pew takes it as sort of a, ‘She’s just playing hard to get. She’s shy. Poor thing.’ I always loved a character like that, just blinders no matter what the actual reality is happening around him. This guy sees only what he wants to see. Pepe Le Pew was the kind of character who always was able to run between the rain drops. He’d just always make it through.” – Johnny Depp

“It’s likely the administration was lulled into complacency by a previous, abbreviated shutdown that took place in early 2018. This interruption in funding lasted only a few days and had barely any effect. Perhaps the administration assumed a longer shutdown would work the same way, but, you know, more of it. The reality is that the effects of a shutdown compound over time. Government agencies can creatively stretch their budgets to mask gaps in funding, but at some point, their capacity to maintain services snaps. The relationship between the length of a shutdown and its impact is not linear. A 30-day shutdown is not ten times as damaging as a three-day shutdown. It is probably 100 times as damaging.”

- Jonathan Chait, "Trump Literally Did Not Understand What a Shutdown Would Do" Jan. 7, 2019. This is a good example of the peril of linear, 'no-threshold' thinking.

In an interview in 2003, Depp explained how Pepe Le Pew is driven by his own objectives and goals and has a tendency to drift in and out of other people’s lives. And of course, there’s that unshakeable confidence.

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