“Why Hawaiian-Born Surfers Aren’t Excited to Surf for America in the Olympics”. If the Olympics happen, anyway.
Here are the pioneering women who will be on new quarters, beginning in 2022.
“We found that across states, a doubling of population size is associated with a 22 to 33 percent increase in regulation.”
“How did UFOs become so respectable? Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s excellent and lengthy New Yorker article provides some useful context. What we’re seeing now is actually a return to an older norm; there was a golden age of UFOs in the late 1940s and early 1950s when mysterious encounters with flying objects were widely discussed in both government circles and by respectable media.”
The TL;dr version of this is basically “give a person an extra thumb on one hand and they quickly adjust to having the extra thumb, but also begin to forget what it’s like to only have the one thumb on the other hand”.
I’m pretty sure that I myself would not read the unpublished John Steinbeck werewolf mystery novel if someone were to be allowed to publish it. But I do think I would read what someone else wrote about the John Steinbeck werewolf mystery novel, and so therefore I would like for it to be published.
“We’re approaching the year-and-a-half mark of the globe’s collective experience with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the Covid-19 pandemic it has triggered. At this point, it’s fair to assume people the world over are asking themselves the same two questions: How will this end? And when?”
RIP, Kathleen Andrews, former top executive with Andrews McMeel, the syndicate that launched the comic strips Doonesbury, Ziggy, and Cathy, among others.
“Gordon Sondland, the former U.S. ambassador to the EU, is suing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the government in a bid to have one of the two pay for $1.8 million in legal fees incurred during the 2019 Ukraine impeachment inquiry.”
Attempting to solve the Toeflop mystery.
“Pete Rose will do more for the game as a pariah than he could ever do pardoned.”
“Once any reasonable person hears the tell-tale features of the now hackneyed lie – the big, burly man, the calloused hands, the tears streaming down his face – that person will correctly conclude that this story must be presumed false unless proven true.”
RIP, Samuel E. Wright, Tony Award-nominated actor who originated the role of Mufasa in the Broadway version of The Lion King and was the voice of Sebastian in The Little Mermaid.
“But among the strangest and easily one of the most ill-advised dispensers has got to be this Pez gun, which shoots candies with the simple pull of a trigger.”
RIP, John Warner, former Senator from Virginia.
RIP, Kevin Clark, Chicago musician who as a child actor portrayed drummer Freddy “Spazzy McGee” Jones in the 2003 film School of Rock.
RIP, Eric Carle, author and illustrator best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
RIP, John Davis, one of the real vocalists behind Milli Vanilli.
“Mitch McConnell Saw the Insurrection Clearly and Then Decided He Liked It“.
RIP, Mark Eaton, former Utah Jazz center and two-time NBA defensive player of the year.
RIP, Gavin MacLeod, TV actor best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Love Boat.
RIP, BJ Thomas, Houston singer/songwriter best known for “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head”.
An analysis finds many more deaths from Greg Abbott’s grid “management” clown show. From the story-
“The state’s tally currently stands at 151 deaths. But by looking at how many more people died during and immediately after the storm than would have been expected — an established method that has been used to count the full toll of other disasters — we estimate that 700 people were killed by the storm during the week with the worst power outages. ”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/texas-winter-storm-power-outage-death-toll
More deadly fallout from the supposed ‘free market solution’ where Abbott’s stooges intervened to cost Texas ratepayers $ billions more.