Always look on the bright side of life

 Police are resisting vaccine mandates all over the country and in some places resigning rather than be immunized against a disease that has killed more police than guns.  Why is this good?  It makes it easier to identify Trump followers who wear blue uniforms instead of red caps and who, based on the actions of Capitol Police officer Michael A. Reilly, could prove untrustworthy in a future insurrection.  Additionally, it's the right time for mayors to do to the cop unions what Reagan did to the air traffic controllers.  That's how Governor Calvin Coolidge came to national attention when Boston police struck in 1919.  Mayor Lightfoot, are you up for it?

This time it's bound to work!  Marc Lore, who made far too much money as a Walmart executive (the starting pay is $12 an hour), wants to build the ideal city Telosa, described as "a mash-up of equality and capitalism."  He is scouting locations, as they say in the movie business.  I suggest the Amazon basin, soon to be denuded of forest by Bolsonaro policies.  That's where Henry Ford established Fordlandia in 1929 to produce rubber for his cars, "the by-products of his real business, which is the making of men."  There might still be some access roads and sewer pipes left, along with a few ghosts and a couple tons of hubris.  

Right-wing funster Dennis Prager says he has covid, and says he meant to contract it, and says his superior white man immune system will keep him from harm without any vaccines.  At the moment there is no reason to believe anything he says.

Vanessa Bryant is suing Los Angeles County for emotional distress, claiming that sheriff's deputies shared photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband Kobe Bryant and their young daughter.  Attorneys for the county have demanded that she and co-plaintiffs undergo psychiatric exams to prove they were damaged by this callous act.  I can't think of a more certain way to get the jury on Mrs. Bryant's side.

Last Thursday Robert Durst was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder in 2000.  On Saturday his lawyer announced that he has covid and is on a ventilator.  Justice delayed...how does that go?

Coastal sand dunes in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, have lost their designation as a protected environmental site because the owner of the golf course they abut lied about preserving them.  Can you guess his name?  Wait, that's not the good part:  under Scottish law said liar can be compelled to reveal the source of the rubles cash he used to buy the land.  

Masks?  We don't need no stinking masks!  Moscow is jumping despite a thousand covid deaths a day.  It looks like Sputnik-V is not the vaccine it's made out to be.  At least there are no reports of Russians beating up people who wear masks.  They're not savages.