1/. School closings are a big deal for parents, and it hasn't gone well for Democrats....
Recently, Nate Silver found himself in the unenviable role of main character of the day on Twitter because he proposed that school closures were a “disastrous, invasion-of-Iraq magnitude (or perhaps greater) policy decision.” The comparison generated overwhelming anger and mockery, and it is not an easy one to defend: A fiasco that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and rearranged the regional power structure is a very high bar to clear. Weighing policy failures in such utterly different realms to each other is so inherently difficult that any discussion quickly devolves into “Could Superman beat up Mighty Mouse?” territory.
2/. Jimmy Kimmel with a very funny riff on Trump's latest rally....about 8 minutes....
3/. Long but really interesting article on the unease, the unhappiness with our systems that many people feel, and a few suggestions on how to change it.....it's long, and a little too detailed but worth plowing through. Read the beginning, it gets nerdy in the middle so you may want to go to the end....
His basic point is that right or left, we all sense the deep corruption and unfairness of our society and how it is completely rigged for the elites, who are masters of keeping us divided.
This is a story about America, an America that, even today, exists largely beyond the serious attention of mainstream politics and news media. Rather, these institutions ignore or marginalize the story's deeper significance, at a great cost to the country. In other words, the story is not about the usual things that are said to have caused the crisis in American democracy: policy gridlock, electoral fraud, political corruption, even insurrection. Nor is it about the competition between the ideologies of capitalism and socialism, nor the various threats to democracy, such as autocracy, plutocracy and kleptocracy.
4/. Bill Maher with a "New Rule" you might well agree with.....one of his better ones, six very good minutes.....
5/. Tom Tomorrow visits parallel earth.....
6/. The SNL cold open with Laura Ingraham [Kate McKinnon] and guests.....a good one, 8 funny minutes....
7/. Jeff Goodell on the melting glacier crisis in Antarctica....
One thing that’s hard to grasp about the climate crisis is that big changes can happen fast. In 2019, I was aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long scientific research vessel, cruising in front of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. One day, we were sailing in clear seas in front of the glacier. The next day, we were surrounded by icebergs the size of aircraft carriers.
As we later learned from satellite images, in a matter of 48 hours or so, a mélange of ice about 21 miles wide and 15 miles deep had cracked up and scattered into the sea.
8/. Weekend Update #1.....just OK.....
Weekend Update #2.....good one, better jokes.....
Weekend Update #3....Sarah Sherman tortures Colin Jost.....amusing.....
Weekend Update #4...Alex Moffat plays an incredibly smutty [and funny] "Guy Who Bought A Boat", leading
into Pete Davidson and Jost who just bought a Staten Island ferry.....
A different WU, I loved it....
9/. Have a look at this toon about our Governor.....
10/. Then read this - the toon is true! He's got a God complex....
Governor Ron DeSantis is opening several new monoclonal antibody therapy sites around his state despite evidence suggesting that the COVID-19 treatments may not be effective against the new omicron variant. DeSantis could be putting his energy into promoting vaccines or masks, but his passion for the antibody cocktail reveals that he may be more interested in his political interests—rather than, say, reducing the spread of the virus.
11/. If you like clever photography, have a look at this.....
12/. Climate change is here and affecting our lives, but since this is a rich country we recover and rebuild.....but poor countries can't,
and they are bearing the brunt of the destruction of their lives from extreme weather.....
From Afghanistan to Ethiopia, about 235 million people worldwide needed assistance in 2021. But while some crises received global attention, others are lesser known.
Humanitarian organisation Care International has published its annual report of the 10 countries that had the least attention in online articles in five languages around the world in 2021, despite each having at least 1 million people affected by conflict or climate disasters
13/. The tundra melting in Siberia, releasing incredible amounts of methane is underreported
but it's happening quickly....this is a scary story....
Flying over Yakutia, in northeastern Russia, I watched the dark shades of the boreal forest blend with patches of soft, lightly colored grass. I was strapped to a hard metal seat inside the cabin of an Antonov-2, a single-engine biplane, known in the Soviet era as a kukuruznik, or corn-crop duster. The plane rumbled upward, climbing above a horizon of larch and pine, and lakes the color of mud. It was impossible to tell through the Antonov’s dusty porthole, but below me the ground was breathing, or, rather, exhaling.
14/. If Trump gets in in 2024, this will come true.....
15/. I don't normally read the conservative columnist David Brooks in the Times, but this caught my eye......
The title is "America Is Falling Apart At The Seams"....
In June a statistic floated across my desk that startled me. In 2020, the number of miles Americans drove fell 13 percent because of the pandemic, but the number of traffic deaths rose 7 percent.
I couldn’t figure it out. Why would Americans be driving so much more recklessly during the pandemic? But then in the first half of 2021, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, motor vehicle deaths were up 18.4 percent even over 2020. Contributing factors, according to the agency, included driving under the influence, speeding and failure to wear a seatbelt.
16/. An amusing TikTok about doctors.....one minute...
17/. Umair thinks America is already in a civil war......and he's right - every bit of news we see confirms it....
Right about now, the country’s abuzz: is America headed for another civil war? I have some good news, that’s not really good news, and some bad news, that’s even worse news. The good news is: no, America’s not headed for another civil war. The bad news is that’s because it’s already in one.
18/. Watch this one minute spoof from Jimmy Kimmel "Anti-Vax Barbie"....
19/. Now read this from Matt Taibbi.....it makes you think about misdirection and how the elites have succeeded again in dividing
the country so we don't look closer at the blatant corruption going on at the top.....
Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a
high-effort gag called “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s impressively on-message..
20/. Bob Lefsetz with another TV review.....I haven't watched "Undercover" but trust Lefsetz's judgment....
Today's video - one of the funniest clips ever was Will Ferrell on the Colbert Show....eight
minutes of deadpan humor.....wonderful!
Today's Irish joke
The rain was pouring down. And there standing in front of a big puddle outside the pub,
was an old Irishman, drenched, holding a stick, with a piece of string dangling in the water.
A passer-by stopped and asked,
"What are you doing?"
"Fishing" replied the old man.
Feeling sorry for the old man, the gent says,
"Come in out of the rain and have a drink with me."
In the warmth of the pub, as they sip their whiskies,
the gentleman cannot resist asking, "So how many have you caught today?"
"You're the eighth," says the old man.
A short Irish joke
Paddy said, 'I'm gonna do dat when I win de lottery'.
'What's dat ?', says his mate.'Send me lawn away to be cut', says Paddy.
Today's bitter joke....MY NAME IS ALICE AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST
APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST.
I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA ON THE WALL, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME.
SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME
NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 50-ODD YEARS AGO.
COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN?
UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT. THIS
BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO OLD TO
HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.
AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK
HIGH SCHOOL . 'YES. YES, I DID. I'M A MUSTANG,' HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.
WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?' I ASKED. HE ANSWERED, 'IN 1962. WHY DO YOU
ASK?' YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!', I EXCLAIMED. HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.
THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, BALD, WRINKLED-FACED, FAT-ASS, GRAY-HAIRED,
DECREPIT SON-OF-A-BITCH ASKED,
'WHAT DID YOU TEACH???
Today's clever jokes....
PARAPROSDOKIANS are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence is unexpected. Winston Churchill loved them. I simply call them “surprise endings."Some examples:1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.2. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.3. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.4. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.5 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.6. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.7. To steal ideas from someone is plagiarism. To steal from many is called research.8. In filling in an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency' - notify: I put 'DOCTOR.'9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.10. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they look sexy.11. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.12. A clear conscience is the sign of a bad memory.13 I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.14. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Nor is there any future in it.15. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.16. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.17. Finally: I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one18. I am not arguing with you, I am explaining why you are wrong.
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