1.29.2022
Who can resist?
Guy rhapsodizes about emojis in Forbes magazine:
"Who can resist, in the complex times we live in, the Face with Peeking Eye Smiley?"
Seriously. Nothing else we need to know?
Staying put
U.S. East Coast prepares for heavy snow, plunging temperatures as blizzard hits
Forecasts of a potentially brutal storm, which moved up the East Coast after forming in the Atlantic Ocean off the Carolinas, had prompted airlines to cancel 5,000 flights through the weekend and delay more than 8,000.…
The National Weather Service issued flood warnings for coastal areas and Amtrak canceled passenger rail service across much of the region.
Where I live is just on the very farthest edge of this storm, so our outcome here depends entirely on which way it jiggles.
We'll see.
Our U.N. Correspondent, Shirley U. Geste, notes…
North Korea named chair of UN disarmament conference
The sight of North Korea presiding over a disarmament conference could “undermine the image and credibility of the United Nations,” Hillel Neuer, the executive director of the Geneva-based group UN Watch said yesterday.
No kidding.
1.28.2022
Big Apple sez howdy
Mayor’s Office Tells New Yorkers: Get a COVID Test if You’ve Been Anywhere Near Sarah Palin
He went on to say Palin had “shown a complete disregard for the health and safety of small-business workers and her fellow patrons.”
From the futility closet
COVID hits one of the last uninflected places on the planet
Officials tested each returning passenger three times in nearby Fiji, required that they be vaccinated, and put them in quarantine with additional testing when they arrived home.
It wasn’t enough.
MEANWHILE, at the Beijing Olympics (via AP}
Everyone is tested for COVID-19 at the airport before being transported to their barricaded hotels, the entrances protected by round-the-clock guards.……Everyone is tested daily — failing to get tested the previous evening means being stuck in your hotel the next day.
Ooops, didn't think of that
Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars to Tax
It’s quite a big problem. The previous government—a center-right coalition that was replaced by a center-left minority government in October—estimated that the popularity of EVs was creating a 19.2 billion Norwegian krone ($2.32 billion) hole in the country’s annual revenue. While EVs might be great news for the environment, their rapid success in Norway is now forcing some serious fiscal consternation.
Now who's gonna fill those potholes?
[Pro tip: They'll find something else to tax.]
1.27.2022
When a volcano is not enough
Covid-hit Australian aid ship to dock in virus-free Tonga despite risk
Despite all crew members testing negative before departure from Brisbane, officials in Canberra on Tuesday said 23 Covid-19 cases had been detected on the vessel.
Piukala said the number had increased to 29 by Wednesday.
Tonga, of course, is that island nation that was nearly wiped off the map a few weeks ago by an underwater volcano and a resulting tsunami.
1.25.2022
Italics added by me
WASHINGTON (AP) — The financial options being considered to punish President Vladimir Putin if Russia invades Ukraine range from the sweeping to the acutely personal — from cutting Russia off from U.S. dollars and international banking to slapping sanctions on a former Olympic gymnast reported to be Putin’s girlfriend.
Seriously?
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