I’ve got off, not due to any holiday but because I took it off. So yes, I’m still a little MIA.
You all seem to be managing just fine.
You’ll never guess which ones!
The rate of Covid-19 cases is dropping nationally but rising in these 5 states
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/10/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html
[Shrug Emoji]
Allen West, unvaccinated Republican running for governor in Texas, has Covid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/allen-west-unvaccinated-republican-governor-texas-covid
A Mini driver would Never!
Stonks!
Stock futures edge lower to start the week
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/10/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Sprots!
Miles into a Utah ultramarathon, ‘near whiteout’ conditions forced a rescue of more than 80 runners
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/10/10/utah-ultra-marathon-rescue/
Gosh would you guys stop chopping onions!
After 77 years, Iowa couple gets long overdue wedding photos — with help from hospice workers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/10/10/hospice-workers-help-couple-take-wedding-photos/
Have a great day!
Soon New York will wrest the title “Venice of the North” away from Amsterdam. Not through design; through mismanagement and incompetence, and no doubt a lot of graft and grift.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/10/10/22715134/staten-island-sewer-delayed-24-years-amid-climate-change
Three blocks of a perpetually flooded residential street on Staten Island. Twenty-four years and they haven’t even started on it yet.
In Asian countries there are civic projects that folks will take bet on whether the partially built ruins will survive long enough for future archeologists to mistake them for finished works.
Must. Resist. Making. Staten Island Sewer Jokes.
Fitting for Nieuw Amsterdam to take on the title. It’s the new Second Ave subway.
I think the Toebbe’s watched too many episodes of The Americans. Or maybe not enough.
Yeah my lesson from that show is: fuck with spies and your life will be fucked. Also: if you see Keri Russell, run for your life.
I wouldn’t have picked these five states (Montana, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania) to have a 10% or more increase in Covid cases last week. I would have gone with Florida, Texas, Mississippi, and both of the Dakotas. What the heck, PA? Excuse me, I need to go give side-eye to unvaccinated neighbors.
It’s hard to go up when you’re already there.
Yeah, I think Florida is already at peak stupid.
I know! I said you’d never guess. Those were definitely not on my list.
This is an extra-weird Monday because my son is off for You-Know-Who Day as is my wife, but I’m working (we’ll see how long that lasts considering the growing chaos surrounding me).
Also, could every unvaxxed GOP moron stop saying they have a “minor” case but are going to the hospital anyway … no, if you’re going to the hospital, there is nothing minor about your Covid.
The GOPer equivalent of “It’s a just flesh wound”
This is really stomach turning piece on Eric Clapton’s anti vax and other right wing beliefs. He’s not just saying things, he’s funding it.
All of the prior attempts to paper over his racist statements were clearly just cynical PR.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown-racist-comments-1239027
didn’t he also have a history of domestic violence? or am I just confusing which assholes are which?…
I had to Google this but yes he does. Patti Boyd wrote a book about their marriage where she describes being physically abused by Clapton. He has also given interviews where he admits to having beaten and raped her during their relationship. He blamed alcohol. What a pig.
That is so disappointing, but not shocking.
Yuck. I didn’t know about him being scum bag. Thanks for the PSA. I will continue to live my life like he doesn’t exist.
He’s made it impossible to separate the artist from the art. Anyone who sees Clapton live, or pays for his music, is also funding it.
“Country 1” most likely China.
Most of their subs are obsolete and their few nukes are not very quiet. Apparently, one of their strategic nuclear missile subs got detected and chased around by a US SSN attack sub in the past year.