Rare blizzard warning in Hawaii, up to 12 inches of snow expected
The National Weather Service issued an “urgent” warning Friday ahead of a huge storm hitting the state, which generally has a tropical climate.
Downhill surfboarding, maybe?
12.04.2021
I wonder if they have a snow plow there
12.03.2021
Our downtown at Christmas has all the personality of a wet cat
12.02.2021
There are "progressives" and then there are regressives, I'm thinking
Biden Administration to Restart Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico' Policy
Just about everything Biden does or says winds up being reversed or "walked back," doesn't it?
I'm beginning to get an itchy ambition to someday write a book entitled, Biden Backwards.
Laudible, but…
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
…well…being called an offensive rookie is a little ambiguous, isn't it?
This is scandalously…strange?
Drink Like It’s 1972 in the Watergate Hotel’s New “Scandal Igloos”
The vintage orbs are outfitted with cozy blankets and Playboy-esque velvet chairs, working Victrola record players, nonworking typewriters, books about the Watergate, and other scandal-era accents. Food and drink also hearken back to 1972—think Singapore Slings, lamb chops with mint jelly, chocolate cigars, and the aforementioned fondue.
12.01.2021
Sort of like rock, paper, scissors
But in this case it's fruit, lettuce, whipped cream.
According to a certain person of my acquaintance, if you put your fruit on lettuce that makes it a salad, but you can't put whipped cream on a salad.
Decisions, decisions.
But maybe welcome news if you were a tree, yourself
Oh! Christmas tree? Cardboard display is the talk of a town
“Because the boardwalk is a focal point for Asbury Park’s thriving arts and music community, and because we have a long-standing and very strong relationship with top-name local artists, when presented with the concept for the sculpture, we passionately embraced the idea,” Leopold said.
Ahhh, passion. Pretty much the excuse for everything.
Scurrilous
Congress 'Asleep at the Switch' as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare
Here's one of the nastiest scams I've heard about for a long, long time. Agree to "Medicare for All," then privatize Medicare. In an exceedingly ugly way, it's genius.
So why aren't the Medicare for All folks screaming about this? (For starters looking at you, Bernie.)
11.30.2021
Let's all freak out about this because of course
How the omicron variant unsettled the world in just one week: A visual timeline
By the time governments imposed restrictions, it was already clear the variant was in many countries: Cases were detected in Belgium, Botswana, Hong Kong, Israel and other nations.
The fact it was first detected in South Africa, apparently the only county that tested for it, of course no way means that's where it started but, hey, you gotta start somewhere.
Not much else is evident, so far. "Preliminary" is the key word in every report. Nobody seems to know exactly what it is, but everybody's sure it is.
Why not buy somebody a banned book for Christmas?
As Calls to Ban Books Intensify, Digital Librarians Offer Perspective
Since Christmas itself was once banned by our Puritan countrymen it would seem fitting in some obscure way.
11.29.2021
File under Stuff You Absolutely Need to Know Right Now
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
This disgraceful story keeps getting worse
What happened to the Afghanistan evacuation?
“We need some help, we really do,” Scott Mann, founder of Task Force Pineapple, which aims to connect people in Afghanistan with flights out of the country. “This is a problem of scale and it is outpacing us quickly.”
