• Biden in 58 days:  100 million doses administered.  Trump in the 50 days after the first vaccine’s approval until he left office: 16 million doses administered.  It’s all the more impressive given that we didn’t hit 100 million cumulative coronavirus TESTS until September 17th, 204 days after the first US fatalities and 248 days after the first confirmed case.
• The word “awkward” does not do justice to describe the handoffs between Hannity and Ingraham.
• Georgia companies like Coca-Cola, Salesforce and Home Depot standing up for citizens in the state and against the draconian voter regulations proposed by state Republicans demonstrates that some companies can use their economic power effectively.  They’ve done more to uphold the Constitution than the GOP.
• The group of people who touted “herd immunity” a year ago–though they got the concept completely wrong then–now balk at taking a vaccine that can promote actual herd immunity. 
• I’d suggest anyone who saw Rand Paul when he was a self-certified ophthalmologist immediately consult a real doctor.  He truly embarrassed himself in his exchange with Fauci Thursday.  Fauci was talking science; Paul was talking gibberish. 
• Believe it or not, it’s been 30 days since Rush Limbaugh had any drug or drink.  Or a heartbeat.  
• Mitch McConnell warning that changing the filibuster will end up in a totally broken Senate ignores how he managed to break the Senate using the filibuster.  
• Nearly two months into his first term, Biden’s only missteps were on the stairway to Air Force One.
• The Atlanta shooter bought his gun the day he committed multiple murders, which is why you’re not hearing Republicans say anything about “a good guy with a gun.”  They don’t want to have an argument about the easy availability of guns, but that debate needs to happen.  Again.
• Alexi McCammond being dismissed as the editor-in-chief (designate) of Teen Vogue for insensitive tweets she posted as a teenager and for which she already apologized makes me very glad social media wasn’t around when I was in college.
• When you talk about Muppets, Kermit is in a class by himself.  But the best Muppet Show Muppets were Animal, Rowlf and of course, Sam Eagle.  Don’t even bring up Fozzie; he’s a Ralph Malph wannabe.
• In his continued quest to find a parallel for every Trump problem with Joe Biden, Hannity claims the “media mob” unjustly went after Ronald Reagan’s mental health… without acknowledging that Reagan’s staff and family later admitted he suffered from Alzheimer’s during his second term in office.
• An under-discussed issue that should be addressed with schools opening and people going back to work:  pet loneliness.  For many doggos and cats, they’ll be alone for an entire workday for the first time in a year.  And wear your masks, folks.

A special thanks to Spartan for picking up the slack on posting stories this week as I had a number of “real world” deadlines and other appointments.  It’s a lot of work to keep you Zeroes informed/entertained, and he’s picked up the lion’s share this week.