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- Take a moment and please bow your head in remembrance of the 700,000 souls lost in the US due to the coronavirus. [ ….. ] Thank you, and now, back to our regularly scheduled snark.
- I’m old enough to remember a time, not that long ago, when if someone started talking about a “dark agenda” or “sneaky cabal,” you slowly backed out of the room and hoped you didn’t talk to them again. You never thought they’d appear on Tucker Carlson or become a Supreme Court Justice. But that is the world we live in today.
- When voters–particularly Republicans–are told the various aspects of Biden’s Build Back Better plan, they’re overwhelmingly in favor of each individual element. Republicans are going to have a difficult time explaining why they’re against dental care for Medicare and day care for working families.
- In honor of ROCKtober, Supertramp is still right 42 years later: “I said, watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical/Liberal, oh fanatical, criminal/Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re acceptable/Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable.”
- Nancy Pelosi will get things done. Maybe not on her stated schedule, or on Biden’s. But she will get things done. All the things.
- It turns out Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, who’s now sitting in the brig, wasn’t a fan of Donald Trump either, calling out Trump’s policies (and even Junior!) on social media frequently. Will MAGA world figure this out before or after they invite him to speak at CPAC?
- I’m more of a Hawkeye-BJ-Charles guy, particularly the early episodes when the three were together. The Hawkeye-Trapper-Frank era was too slapstick, and the Hawkeye-BJ-Frank episodes just didn’t mesh.
- This week, I learned that “Calvin & Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson painted a copy of Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” from the Sistine Chapel on his dorm room’s ceiling at Kenyon College, only to paint it over at the end of the semester. (The things you learn when you listen to a high school debate presentation.)
- Corey Lewandowski will either be a GOP Senate candidate or in jail by 2024. Or both. Same with R. Kelly.
- I grew up in a house that had a line of apple trees on the property. I do not understand the charm of paying someone $20 to pick apples from a tree.
- Now that we’re in the season… Best uses of pumpkin: Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin bread. Roasted seeds. You can also mix it into your morning oatmeal. I likely won’t partake of the “pumpkin spice” craze. But if Reece’s makes a “pumpkin butter” version, I’ll try it.
- Mrs. Jack makes single-bite pumpkin “pies” that are perfect serving size (if you have two). The challenge: fitting a whole can of whipped cream on such a small target.
- Rabbit. Rabbit. Rabbit. To the NatZero family, may October bring you happiness, health, success and prosperity, however you define them. (And good luck to Spartan on the move!)
