Pillow's Symposium

 Yesterday's story was basically U.N. RECOMMENDS SHOPPING FOR ANOTHER PLANET and I had a little trouble getting my head around it so I took the day off and read Mark Harris's biography of Mike Nichols.  As the proprietor and sole employee of the Organization I can do that.  Today is another day, however, bursting with manageable news.  Where to begin?

Blaming "generational and cultural shifts that I just didn't fully appreciate," Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation without exactly admitting he did anything wrong.  Making lewd comments to women who work for you and reaching under their blouses has always been wrong.  When all your defenders work for Rupert Murdoch, it's time to go.

Even worse than groping is forcing yourself on a sixteen-year-old.  That's the gist of Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit against Prince Andrew, filed under New York's Child Victims Act.  If the process servers can't find him at Balmoral, they should try Pizza Express in Woking.

We await the start of the "cyber symposium," delayed because, according to Mike Lindell, "the whole technology was attacked."  Yes, he's surrounded by cyber assassins!  And South Dakota is the proud host of two loon-friendly events this week, the other being Super Spreader Sturgis.  I need to see the Venn diagram on these two.  

Bikers heading home should probably avoid Texas and Florida for a while.  Our two favorite "Covid?  What covid?" states are sensing the hell-hounds of reality on their trail, with Texas seeking medical staff from out of state and instructing hospitals to postpone elective procedures (I'm sure they are already doing that).  Large school districts like Austin, Dallas and Houston are openly defying the governor's no-mask/no-vaccine mandates.  Two hospitals in Harris County are erecting tents and patients are being sent out of state.  But with a breathtaking 23,903 new cases on Friday and 135 hospitalized children, Florida continues to set the pace, earning its governor the title Prince Variant.  In a blow to Ron DeSantis's bloodthirstiness, U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams ruled that Norwegian Caribbean (and presumably other cruise lines) can indeed require passengers to show proof of vaccination.  This just in:  Florida has requested another 300 ventilators from the federal government.  It was easier to get supplies when all Ron had to do was call Jared.  I hope Biden doesn't hold grudges.

I hope Pillow Mike gets his symposium started because a raging case of VOTER FRAUD just came to light in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:  Julie Blanchard lives in Westlake, Texas, with her husband Herschel Walker, but voted from her Atlanta address last November using an absentee ballot.  You won't be shocked when I tell you that Walker is Trump's hand-picked candidate to challenge Raphael Warnock in next year's Senate election despite living in Texas.  Well, Brad Raffensperger did say there was skeevy voting in Fulton County -- I guess Blanchard is it.  She thought she was entitled to a vote for every residence they own under the principle of one house-one vote.  Walker has written about his diagnosis of multiple personalities, so we may never know how many times he voted.  Sorry, Walkers, but ignorance of the law does not excuse illegal voting.  Ask Crystal Mason.

Sports teams change their uniforms every year so the fans -- the ones who dress like players -- will buy new gear.  The FEC made Trump give millions back to supporters who struggle with literacy, but you can't keep a grifter down.  Today the new MAGA cap was unveiled, only ten dollars more expensive than the original ($40 if you want it "autographed" since he has nothing better, or even different, to do).  At least one Chinese factory will be hiring this fall.  Here's the one I want:

The Dixie fire in California is already the largest in state history but firefighters report residents are refusing to evacuate and in some cases pointing guns at them.  They probably think they're being asked to get a covid shot.  This suicidal embrace of the Second Amendment should be some consolation to Margie Greene, whose freedom to tweet lies about the vaccine earned her a one-week time-out from the communist left liberal woke socialist lunatics at Twitter.

In America's totally sane ally Pakistan a boy accused of urinating on a rug in a madrassa has been charged with blasphemy, which usually involves the death penalty.  He is eight.

Goofball quote of the day comes from Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer:  "I remember twenty years ago going to Trier, Germany, and trying to find the home of Karl Marx 'cause, you know, 1848 -- he wrote Mein Kampf.  I want to know what it's all about."  Hemmer later said he meant The Communist Manifesto.  Not sure what he hoped to learn by looking at Marx's house, and in any case it was written in London.  Clearly there's not a thing wrong with the way history is taught now -- why mess around with it?