Yesterday, I realized it was a slownews weekend. Of course, thet oesn’t mean nothing pappened – far from it – but it does explain whi I am including a poem (a very worthwhile one, I might add) as a story.
Cartoon – 22 NatIslam uploaded
Short Takes –
The New Yorker (Sasha Debevec-McKenney) – Kaepernick
The New Yorker is famous for its cartoons and its investigative reporting. It’s also known for the fiction it publishes – but not so much for poetry. Maybe it ought to be. This one is short, only 3 lines longer than a sonnet, but gets in more than you would think possible.
Law & Crime (referral) – When in Rome? American Tourists Fined After Breaking Into the Colosseum Just to Have a Drink
Quote – “During the early hours of Monday morning some people noticed two young men drinking beer in the Colosseum, facing outwards on the second level,” Rome’s carabinieri police force said, according to CNN. “They alerted a police car nearby, which then stopped the two young men on Via dei Fori Imperiali.”
Click through for a little more. Just in case you needed reminding how absurdly stupid and stupidly absurd privilege is.
The Guardian – Fauci warns time running short to prevent ‘dangerous’ Covid surge in US
Quote – Coronavirus cases across the US are rising again for the first time in weeks, and approaching 100,000 per day. Experts fear that this week’s Thanksgiving holiday, for which tens of millions of Americans will travel for indoor celebrations with family and friends, will fuel a further surge…. “We still have about 60 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who have not been, and that results in the dynamic of virus in the community that not only is dangerous and makes people who are unvaccinated vulnerable, but it also spills over into the vaccinated people,” Fauci said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.
Ckick through for full reasoning (as if reasoning ever got through to MAGAts.) I’ve got a goodly amount of toilet issue now, but I might just add another package or two to my next grocery order anyway.
Food for Thought –
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Even if it’s quiet…somethings always happening. At least it does here, as I’m sure you experience it as well.
Cartoon: Members of the Nation of Islam read the Koran, worship Allah as their God, and accept Mohammed as their chief prophet. *ushistory.org
NYer: Well written, for sure. Spot on.
L&C: As well they should. For heaven’s sake, have some respect for these sites/tourist attractions.
The Guardian: Listen to Dr. Fauci and others in the medical community. After all, it’s for your health and for your loved ones.
Cartoon: So, so sad.
THIS JUST IN: “58 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. He was 46 years old. Our Country mourned his loss. 12:30 CST “I Remember.” At school, our Mother Superior made an announcement. Classes were dismissed. I remember Walter Cronkite addressing the Nation of President Kennedy’s death. “President Kennedy has been shot.” A day never forgotten.” *pb*
*Nation mourns at JFK’s funeral – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpXhjVjQAN0
Kennedy was the last President to whom I fekt personally connected – I mourned him as a real person, not just as a political leader. Of course I feel that way about Carter now – but then, I diidn’t realize what we had in him. And I think I would feel that way about Biden, but I hope I never have to find out.
I deliberately stayed away from him in the cartoon. But I guess it really isn’t possible not to think of it. Incidentally, the world lost two other noteworthy men that same day, either of whose deaths would have generated headlines had they died any other day – Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis. The assassination drowned that news. It was years before I even realized they had died.
Comment from Mitch –
‘Toon: And, recently, it has been found that the folks who were convicted of killing Malcom X, who had broken from Muahmmad’s group, were innocent. At least 2 of the 3 were not even at the Audubon Ballroom!. But, facts meant nothing to Hoover’s FBI, nor to the NYC police at the time.New Yorker: Killing Black sons is sport, in some places!
L&C: It’s “the Ugly Americans,” redux.
Guardian: The only silver lining is that it may take Boebart and Greene down! We are going to fly to Richmond,on Wednesday, for a Thanksgiving visit,
will be back on Sunday. We are old farts, and fully vaccinated, boosted; will be masked.
FFT: It is heartbreaking. I know of 2 healthcare workers, on Long Island, N.Y., who are young, but came down with Covid. they survived.
Mitch
Facts still don’t mean anything to way too many cops. Nor do they mean anything to the Governor of Oklahoma.
What got me in the poem was the way she slowly revealed. Starting with “white mom hair,” then the reference to Pantene, moving to how her Mome never taight her to do her makeup (maybe a guy wouldn’t hear that siren – but I did, loudly.) Imagine growing up with a mother who is in denial about your very identity.
I hope your Thanksgiving is peaceful. I know many won’t be. Again.
I love the food for thought….it is so true….it didn’t have to be this way, but someone who remains nameless, but has initials of djt, and “his” noise machine made vaccination, masks, etc so political and allow so many lies and falseness to spread….leading to so much non-vaccination and so much unnecessary morbidity and mortality.
TNY: Wonderful poem; so much said in so few words.
L&C: And then Americans wonder why they are not well-liked in other countries.
TG: The Netherlands was well-vaccinated and opened up only to lock down again because a complete lack of inhibition by some groups caused yet a new variant on the delta strain. Disregarding even the simplest rules to avoid contagion will result in even more contagious and lethal variants of COVID to which current vaccination only give partial protection.
FFT: Too many health workers are now quitting the job they love and were dedicated to because they simply can’t take anymore.