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Jul 16 2020
Corona(tion)
Still a very, very bad idea. I was at an outdoor meeting in Niagra Falls New York (great Porterhouse, couldn’t find the hole in the wall last time I was there) in August and damn near died of Heat Exhaustion. In Upstate New York. Next to a really, really big Fire Hydrant. Enjoy your swelter …
Jul 15 2020
Better Get Your 12 Gauge Buckshot Now
By the Pallet. I practice a lot. Walmart will require face masks at all U.S. stores By Hannah Denham and Taylor Telford, Washington Post July 15, 2020 Walmart Inc. will require all shoppers to wear masks starting Monday, positioning employees at the entryways of thousands of its namesake stores and Sam’s Club locations to help …
Jul 15 2020
Cartnoon
Rather more serious than I had hoped when I initially clicked on it. Still, if you live in those parts of the Country likely to experience a roll back and not the Land of Steady Habits (of Cheating You) where things never got that bad or the Granite State where you are only twice as …
Jul 14 2020
La Marseillaise
Vive Le Quatorze Juillet! (An Annual Tradition) Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us of the tyranny The bloody banner is raised, The bloody banner is raised, Do you hear, in the countryside, The roar of those ferocious soldiers? They’re coming right into your arms To slit the throats …
Jul 13 2020
Elvis’ Grave
I must admit his musical charms are lost on me except as parody and this story may seem a bit macabre falling on the heels as it does of the announcement of the death of his only Grandson at the age of 27, presumably of suicide. But it’s not really about Elvis at all, outside …
Jul 13 2020
Pottersville
C’mon, It’s A Wonderful Life. Clarence? Zuzu’s Petals? Buffalo Gal? You can hardly have missed it, before A Christmas Story it ran 24/7 from Thanksgiving to Boxing Day. It’s a bigger problem than you think. Not only are arrears due in a lump at the expiration of the moratorium, but they’re mostly uncollectable so valuations …
Jul 12 2020
Mueller Speaks
Which he never does. Weak Tea if you ask me. Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so By Robert S. Mueller III, Washington Post July 11, 2020 The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond …
Jul 12 2020
No Sports?
2019 Women’s NCAA Water Polo Championship: Stanford v. USC 2019 Men’s NCAA Water Polo Championship: Stanford v. Pacific
Jul 11 2020
Smallpox Blankets
Not made up, real History. At that biological Genocide is one of the lesser indignities we inflicted on the First Nations which makes me glad to read news like this- Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Native American Rights in Oklahoma By Jack Healy and Adam Liptak, The New York Times July 11, 2020 The Supreme …