Sunday, March 15, 2020

Life goes on

Some things you probably didn't see on the news:

Police serving a search warrant in Potomac, Maryland, shot and killed 21-year-old Duncan Lemp and wounded his girlfriend.  They say he "confronted" them; his family says he was asleep in bed when the police fired from outside the house.  Lemp was apparently a libertarian and militia-type, and the police recovered several guns.  None of this excuses shooting him while he slept, if that is indeed what happened.

The pandemic has caused the postponement of Prime Minister Netanyahu's corruption trial.  Meanwhile, Benny Gantz, leader of the opposition, has been assembling a bizarre coalition including the far right and several Arab parties, and may be the next prime minister.

At least one man, Keith Duggan, can't believe it's going to be horseracing as usual at Cheltenham, England.  Warning:  Duggan writes colorfully.

Trump says he is thinking of pardoning Michael Flynn, who has yet to serve an hour in prison after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.  He blames his own Justice Department for losing Flynn's records.  He also found time to spread a rumor about former Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum.  I liked it better when he just watched television and played golf.
 
Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois made the mistake of tweeting his frustration over the chaos at O'Hare Airport.  Instead of help with screenings, he got yelled at by a Trump courtier.

Before his debate tonight with Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden endorsed both Sanders's proposal for free college and Elizabeth Warren's plan to repeal part of the 2005 bankruptcy law.  Biden will probably start announcing his cabinet by next week.

Nike is closing many of its stores because of the coronavirus, but count on Trump to blame Colin Kaepernick.

First it was ravenous monkeys running wild in Thailand; now hungry deer are foraging outside city parks in Nara, Japan.   It took a pandemic to make it clear that tourists are an essential component of the animal food chain.

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell has ruled that this is exactly the wrong time to cancel the food stamp (SNAP) program for a million or so Americans.  She's the nasty woman who was also mean to Roger Stone, so the Twitter abuse should be epic.

You have problems?  Iran has locusts.

Alex Salmond, former leader, Scottish National Party.  Sexual assault trial.  Zombie impersonation.  Just read it.  I see Billy Connolly in the Netflix series.


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