Any big weekend plans? Holiday parties gearing up? I have one this weekend and three next weekend.
Get your boosters
RFK Jr. ally filed petition to revoke FDA approval for polio vaccine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/12/13/rfk-polio-vaccine-fda-aaron-siri
Soo the family will hire a fancy lawyer, but couldn’t find him in 6 months?
Luigi Mangione retains high-powered New York attorney as he faces second-degree murder charge
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/us/luigi-mangione-new-york-attorney-retained/index.html
Fuck I agree with him on something
Trump calls for ending daylight saving time. It’s ‘inconvenient,’ he says.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/12/13/daylight-saving-time-trump
Wow
Syrian rebels reveal year-long plot that brought down Assad regime
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/13/syrian-rebels-reveal-year-long-plot-that-brought-down-assad-regime
Stonks!
Dow slides for a seventh straight day for longest losing streak since 2020: Live updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/12/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
If you scroll to the second half of the chat, people write in about their holiday incidents and it’s hilarious.
Carolyn Hax live chat: My stepson’s mom hits on my husband and is cold to me
https://wapo.st/4iyIaAv
Have a great weekend!
Does that mean Trump wants permanent standard time? He’s an even bigger monster than I thought.
Here in The Greatest City in the World™ it is a little nippy but it hasn’t snowed so far.
This is not amusing.
Farewell to lower-level health care employees, restaurant workers, the (black market) construction industry, delivery service people…Governor Hokum’s paymasters will never allow this, of course, but we’ve had anti-immigrant and immigrant removal programs before.
Never fails. Democrats keep acting more like Republicans in the vain hope that they’ll win support from the knuckle draggers. Worked like a fucking charm for Biden/Harris.
I am completely overwhelmed with end-of-the-year projects offloaded on to this lowly freelancer, but rather than make my way through it (I really wish I knew you all IRL; it would answer so many questions you might have about me) I have decided to scroll through my 80s Youtube music catalog. And comment here, or course. This came up and I don’t think I’ve heard it since Kamala Harris was allegedly working the fryer at the McDonald’s:
I’m sure they probably hated making this video, but I wonder if this was around the beginning of the end, when they could barely stand to be in the same room together. . . .
That glorious head of hair Sting used to have! I worked with a guy whose daughter went to school with Sting’s and Trudie Styler’s spawn, I can’t remember if it was a boy or a girl. The guy I worked with had a wife with some serious family money, that’s how they could afford to sent their daughter to a school that Sting’s child would go to.
BTW, googling Trudie Styler (I wanted to get the name right) revealed that she is 70. I thought, “well, if she is 70, how old is Sting?” 73!
Much as I rail against the gerontocracy running the Democratic party, to disastrous results, when it comes to culture, pop and otherwise, give me a good Baby Boomer any day. Michael Stipe (of REM) is 64. My God. What has happened to us all. Time’s arrow, and it only goes in one direction.
PS: Starting at 1:26 or so you see Sting break out into the classic 80s dance. We all did it. Left elbow to right knee/Right elbow to left knee.
Hey, just out of curiosity, did the idea of repeating the Zoom call again ever gain any traction, or was that just more like a reflex impulse for community after things went all to shit on the night of the election?
An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. He’s 26, they’re saying suicide. I mean, that’s convenient.