- I am still one month away from being eligible for the coronavirus vaccine in my home state, Maryland, assuming it actually is open to all ages/conditions on April 27. I’m pretty sure my dog will be eligible before me.
- People who are so scared for their safety they think they need the right to carry guns everywhere at all times are calling people wearing masks overreactionary.
- The Biden press conference was great for Biden; he was prepared, clear and informative. Unfortunately, journalists dropped the ball in not asking about gun violence, the threats of white nationalist groups, the January 6th attacks and the pandemic. But the true loser was Fox News, who had to go back to the “Sleepy Joe” theme that was disproven in the event.
- Trump continually pitching, as on Ingraham’s show, the idea that he won the 2020 election demonstrates how deluded he is, and how he has absolutely no future in politics.
- The actions of Republicans in Georgia and Iowa to corrupt elections are a more serious threat to our (small-d) democracy than any other action in the last half century.
- Hockey announcers amaze me. The good ones can keep track of ten skaters who are constantly switching out (and two goaltenders), some of whom have six-syllable Russian last names, while describing a game played at a high rate of speed.
- Lawn darts, also known as Jarts, were banned in the US and Canada after one child–just one–was killed by one seventeen years after the game was introduced. But the GOP can’t find a way to ban guns that killed 10 people at a grocery store in one day.
- We got through an entire presidential press conference without the president referring to himself in the third person.
- A look behind the scenes of NatZero: Spartan and I will regularly message to tell the other when we’ll be unable to post. About half the time when I say “conference call,” I really mean “nap.”
- With Trump attempting to rewrite the facts of the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol as the insurrectionists being “persecuted,” Fox News should rebrand itself as the “Alternative History Channel.”
- Fruits (in order): cherries, pears, bananas, apples. Can’t stand blueberries or strawberries, although curiously, I don’t mind artificial strawberry flavor like on donut frosting.
- Sunday is Weed Appreciation Day, so an early thank you to dandelions, the only plant that I know of with every part edible. (Whaddaya mean, “wrong weed”?)
- I had to put on a collared shirt for a Zoom call with a client this week. My dog went nuts thinking I was leaving the house.
- Biden insinuating that there wouldn’t be a Republican Party in 2024 was the underappreciated shade of the week. But he’s still got nuthin’ on Jen Psaki.
- The US inoculated 3.4 million people Thursday. That’s 1% of the entire population of the nation. I think the free Krispy Kreme promotion is working.
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