1/. This is a very disturbing story on many levels....the first being that very few people are aware of this problem.....
Skid Row in Los Angeles. Photo: David Swanson/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Sam Quinones has covered gangs, crime, and the border for 35 years, including a ten-year stint at the L.A. Times. He established himself as a leading voice on the opioid epidemic with the 2015 book Dreamland, which told the story of how prescription-drug companies and a sophisticated black-tar heroin operation in Mexico wreaked havoc across the U.S. In his follow-up, 2021’s The Least of Us, Quinones focused on the rise of two synthetic drugs: fentanyl, which had become ascendant in the intervening years, and a frighteningly potent form of meth that can quickly inflict tremendous damage on users. The extreme effects of these drugs, Quinones believes, has worsened the homelessness crisis in America. Recently, New York City Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a controversial plan to address that crisis by removing some people from the street involuntarily.
2/. Tom Tomorrow with "Life in the Stupidverse".....
3/. Been watching the World Cup on Fox Sports? Then this will definitely interest you......
Kylian Mbappé: much talked about, according to Fox Sports. Photograph: Lee Smith/Reutershe World Cup! A tournament of frenzied emotion, spectacular goals, heroic upsets, and grand displays of athletic daring and skill. Or, if you’re watching it in the US: four weeks of shouting, relentless commercial promotion, disorienting cuts and changes of channel to make way for the college football game, and segments in which Alexi Lalas does pump-up speeches for the US team that no one in the US team will ever listen to; a global exhibition of Clint Dempsey’s ongoing quest to assemble vowels and consonants into an order that resembles words; a month-long celebration of the festival that is Landon Donovan’s personality.
4/. Very good one from Jimmy Kimmel....the "Mar-A Lego" game....
5/. SNL - Steve Martin and Martin Short with their opening monologue.....very, very funny, these two play off each other wonderfully....
The opening piece from the SNL host is normally just OK - this one is great....
6/. Bob Lefsetz looks at how the music industry has been transformed by TikTok.....
“So You Want To Be A TikTok Star: The social-media platform is transforming the music industry. Is that a good thing?”: https://bit.ly/3F7nWv3
And we thought file-trading was gonna kill the record business.
Let’s be clear, the major labels will never die, because of their catalogs, which they wield with an iron fist, you cannot play in the music sphere without licensing their wares. Spotify delayed launching in the U.S. because one major label group wouldn’t make a deal. But things have changed, Bob Dylan is making money from books these days, having sold his songs and recordings (Was that too obscure a reference? That’s Bob’s last transcendent track if you ask me, fits perfectly in “The Wonder Boys”…then again, they don’t make movies like that anymore either.) And the major labels have lost control of new music production. And they’re scared.
7/ Painfully amusing little video from SNL.....clever too....
8/. Hmmm....this might actually be true....
Local Evangelical pastor Brett Thompson today renounced his Christian faith after reading the New Testament, and
realizing Jesus Christ sounds quite a bit like a “libtard.”
9/ You really don't want to rile up the Brits.....
LONDON — Britain is languishing, and the signs are everywhere.
10/. Just think AR15s...
11/. Over 60? Then Covid is still a very real risk for you, even if you're boostered.....
Excellent article by David Wallace-Wells....
Americans received their first Covid-19 vaccine doses in December 2020, which means we are now approaching the beginning of the third year of the pandemic’s vaccine phase. And yet hundreds of Americans are still dying each day. Who are they? The data offers a straightforward answer: older adults.
Though it’s sometimes uncomfortable to say it, the risk of mortality from Covid has been dramatically skewed by age throughout the pandemic. The earliest reports of Covid deaths from China sketched a pattern quickly confirmed everywhere in the world: In an immunologically naïve population, the oldest were several thousand times more at risk of dying from infection than the youngest.
12/. Mark Bittman looks at the diet of most Americans, and it's just awful.....and unhealthy....
If you eat any prepared foods at all, this is worth reading....
‘For a healthy population, we must mandate or at least incentivize growing real food for nutrition, not cheap meat and corn and soya beans for junk food.’ Photograph: Mohamed Osama/AlamyDiet-related chronic disease is the perennial number one killer in the United States, responsible for more deaths than Covid-19 even at the pandemic’s peak. Yet we cannot manage to define this as a “crisis”. In fact, our response is lame: for decades we’ve been telling people to “eat better”, a strategy that hasn’t worked, and never will.
It cannot, as long as the majority of calories we produce are unhealthy. It is the availability of and access to types of food that determines our diets, and those, in turn, are factors of agricultural policy. For a healthy population, we must mandate or at least incentivize growing real food for nutrition, not cheap meat and corn and soya beans for junk food.
13/. The viral video "All Too Well", sung by Taylor Swift ....it's a short film actually, and alleged to be the story of
Swift, Jake Gyllenthal and their breakup.....it's a beautiful song, and a really emotional video....
The behind the scenes making of "All Too Well" with Taylor Swift as director.....
14/. What a wonderful idea! Sign me up Mary....
Seriously - sign me up to be composted after I die....
Eight years ago, panting heavily in the humid summer air, I carried a pair of orange work buckets full of wood chips up a leafy hill in rural North Carolina. Although these were ordinary wood chips, the pilot study I’d come to observe was planning to put them to an extraordinary use: composting a dead human being into soil.
The deceased gentleman I saw that day, lying on the forest floor in dappled sunlight, had donated his body to science in order to be useful to society after death. Now that gift and the study, by the Forensic Osteology Research Station of Western Carolina University, have borne fruit. With human composting technology, our dead have the chance to become nutrient-rich soil that can be used to plant trees and regrow forests.
15/. Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer who died from the Jan 6 riot, was honoured and his family received the
thanks of our "leaders".....but watch what happens....
Good on ya Sicknicks!
16/. Rolling Stone and the best TV of 2022....
17/. The Times lists the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.....
The sheer volume of films on Netflix — and the site’s less than ideal interface — can make finding a genuinely great movie there a difficult task. To help, we’ve plucked out the 50 best films currently streaming on the service in the United States, updated regularly as titles come and go. And as a bonus, we link to more great movies on Netflix within many of our write-ups below.
Today's server joke
A man goes into a restaurant and is seated. All the waitresses are gorgeous.
A particularly voluptuous waitress wearing a very short skirt and legs that won't quit comes to his table and asks, "What would you like, sir?"
He looks at the menu, scans her beautiful frame from top to bottom, and then answers, "A quickie."
The waitress turns and walks away in disgust. After regaining her composure, she returns and asks again, "What would you like, sir?"
Again, the man thoroughly checks her out and answers, "A quickie, please." This time her anger takes over! She reaches over and slaps him across the face, with a resounding "SMACK", and storms away.
The man sitting at the next table leans over and whispers, "Um, I think it's pronounced "quiche".
Today's sick humour link....
https://www.cracked.com/image-pictofact-9485-15-dark-humor-jokes-if-thats-your-thing?utm_source=Facebook%20CRD&utm_medium=photow_bitly&utm_campaign=social%20account&fbclid=IwAR0InmL8975EI0cnFwhcG_IlKw_X5mkFkHY78gykX_n9j1gRjjwq9pwo7CA
Today's Irish joke link....
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