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- I’ve never been impressed with store-bought costumes for kids. I’m far more impressed with the mother who used an old sheet, duct tape and a houseplant to make their kid look like a Minion.
- With Halloween parties this weekend, tens of thousands of college students will wear costumes that will later disqualify them from holding public office.
- Where were all these conservatives jeering Alec Baldwin for a fatal accident on a movie set when the 5-year-old in Sayre, Oklahoma killed himself with a gun found in his daddy’s car? Or when the 2-year-old shot and killed a one-year-old in Canton, Ohio after finding an unattended loaded gun? Where’s Junior’s t-shirt declaring, “My baby was killed by a toddler with a gun, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt?” Will Junior go Full Ghoul and profit off these children’s deaths?
- Mitch McConnell joining Donald Trump to endorse Herschel Walker and hand him the Georgia Senate nomination shows that the GOP is really a smoky backroom, cabal-run organization. It also shows that a Black man can’t move ahead in the Party without the approval of the old white guys running it.
- Am I the only one who thinks Mark Zuckerberg was born in the Uncanny Valley?
- The “metaverse” Zuckerberg described when introducing Meta sounds like a reboot of Second Life, the digital world in which we were all supposed to be living by now. Just like we were all going to have flying cars by 1999. And Bitcoin will be the universal currency in 2030.
- Under Texas House Bill 25, signed into law by Gov. Abbott earlier this month, anytime there’s a question about a Texas student’s gender, they may be subject to a visual inspection and documentation by a third party. If it’s good enough for Texas students, it should be good enough for Louie Gohmert, who’s upset about a typo in an email. Any volunteers?
- Saw an NHL game, from Canada, where a young lady sang “The Star Spangled Banner” wonderfully. When it came time for her to sing, “O Canada,” she sang the first line and then held the mic in the air. The entire arena was singing the Canadian anthem. Beautiful.
- Joe Biden at the G20 and the COP26 meetings will calm many unsteady international relationships around the world. However, the damage done from 2017 until last January will take years to fix.
- Like a good parochial school parolee, I say my prayers every night, including this one, from Kenya: “From the cowardice that dare not seek new truth, from the laziness that is contented with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, good Lord, deliver me.” It has special relevance in today’s environment.
- The only thing Merrick Garland’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee proved is that Republicans didn’t read Garland’s memo about protecting school officials.
- I’m more convinced that Garland is a fantastic poker player. He was emotionless when getting questioned by Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, while in the back of his mind knowing the extent of the investigations being undertaken by the Department of Justice. “We do not comment on ongoing cases [but I really, really want to, Josh!].”
- Favorite “cult” classics: Where the Buffalo Roam, Clue, Amazon Women on the Moon and The Warriors. Office Space went from cult classic to mainstream acceptance. This is Spinal Tap also falls into that situation. For Halloween, I’ll look for Blacula. My criteria: not a commercial success, not considered a “master of a genre” movie, and *I* like it.
- For 364 days a year, we tell children not to take candy from strangers. On that last day, we not only encourage them to take the candy, we gift-wrap them, push them to strangers’ homes and make them de facto terrorists.
- Happy Halloween, Zeros! We’ll have a basket of candy for the kids, and a cooler of treats for the adults. And dog biscuits. You always gotta have dog biscuits.
