1/. Welcome to a US travel industry in chaos.....interesting story, and they didn't even get to cruises...
It’s a total shitshow. Photo: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Wall Street veteran Peter Schiff knew well ahead of time that he’d need to renew his 7-year-old son’s passport for their June trip to Switzerland. Passports for minors must be renewed in person, at the passport office, but on their first attempt, the Schiffs were told it was too early.
2/. A wonderful new drug - "Insurrectigone".....for Republicans only...
3/. Excellent Michelle Goldberg column in the Times about the Epstein case, but also highlighting how much we miss local newspapers and their
coverage of corruption, large and small....
At a news conference after Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking indictment, a reporter asked Geoffrey Berman, then the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, if new information had prompted his office’s inquiry.
4/. If only....if only...
5/. No wonder birth rates are way down - look at this story about the cost of a hospital delivery....
For the last couple of months my wife and I have been playing a quintessentially American game of Guess the Baby Bill. The rules are simple: try to guess exactly how much we would be charged for the birth of our daughter earlier this year. Last week the hospital bill finally came, putting an end to the guessing game. The cost of an uncomplicated vaginal birth? $37,617.69.
6/. What the hell has happened to the UK? An eye opening story from the Times....
England, we are told, is free. On Monday the government lifted the country’s remaining Covid restrictions — on social distancing, on face masks, on numbers for gatherings, the lot — effectively leaving protection from the coronavirus to vaccinations and, er, the goddess of chance.
7/. Tom Tomorrow nails it again.....
8/. And from Umair's point of view, a more fevered view of Britain slipping quickly away....
Britain is Opening Just as Covid Explodes All Over Again. What The?
Is Britain the dumbest nation on earth? Is it even possible for a country to be this dumb?
To help you decide, let me recount a story. My lovely wife, the doctor, had a conversation recently with a friend. Her friend is an American doctor, who was partly educated in Britain. It went like this. https://eand.co/britains-jaw-
9/. Jordan Klepper went to Mike Lindell's MAGA rally....includes a few words with Lindell himself...
Seven minutes of the wackiest people in the country....
10/. Tennessee is vying for the "dumbest state" award...
Tennessee Republicans' war against childhood vaccinations reached a new level on Tuesday after The Tennessean reported that the state's health department "will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers."
11/. The Biden Administration isn't winning against the anti-vaxxers.....a new approach might...
The Biden administration recently escalated its campaign against the death-bringing Covid misinformation that’s propagated on social media and on cable news and advanced by Republican scaremongers.
Abandoning its previous, more passive strategy, the administration has wrapped its critics in a clinch and commenced counterpunching.
12/. Bill Maher with one of his better "New Rules", and he takes on California's water issues and how to solve them.
But prepare to be shocked....about almonds! Six very good minutes....
13/. Yes Umair is OTT, yes according to him everything is melting down but in this column he asks a very good question, with concrete examples and
an excellent question for us all - do you remember the weather being significantly cooler than now?
14/. Rodney Dangerfield on the Johnny Carson show.....very very funny, Rodney on form.
Lousy picture, but really good!
15/. The best TV on Amazon Prime....from EW....
16/. The best TV of 2021 so far from Vanity Fair....see what you've missed...
Today's Irish joke
Paddy says to Mick,"I'm getting circumcised tomorrow."
Mick says, "I had that done when I was a few days old."
Paddy asks, "Does it hurt?"
Mick says, " Well I couldn't walk for 18months.."
Today's flea joke
Two fleas had an arrangement to meet every winter in Miami for a vacation.
Last year when one flea gets to Miami, he's shivering and shaking.
The other flea asks him "Why are you shaking so badly?"
The first flea says "rode down here from New Jersey in the mustache of a guy on a Harley."
The other flea responds saying "That's the worst way to travel. Try what I do. Go to the New Jersey airport bar, have a few drinks. While you are there, look for a nice stewardess. Crawl up her leg and nestle in where it's warm and cozy. It's the best way to travel that I can think of.
The first flea thanks the second flea and says he will give it a try next winter. A year goes by ...
When the first flea shows up in Miami he is shivering and shaking again.
The second flea says "Didn't you try what I told you?"
"Yes," says the first flea, "I did exactly as you said. I went to the New Jersey airport bar. I had a few drinks. Finally, this nice young stewardess came in. I crawled right up to a warm cozy spot, and it was so nice and warm that I fell asleep. When I woke up, I was in the mustache of a guy on a Harley."
Three sisters age 92, 94 and 96 live in a house together.
One night the 96 year old draws a bath, puts her foot in and pauses. She yells down the stairs, "Was I getting in or out of the bath?"
The 94 year old yells back, "I don't know, I'll come up and see." She starts up the stairs and pauses, then she yells, "Was I going up the stairs or coming down?"
The 92 year old was sitting at the kitchen table having tea listening to her sisters. She shakes her head and says, "I sure hope I never get that forgetful." She knocks on wood for good measure.
She then yells, "I'll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who's at the door."
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