Breathe in the air

 

Ah.

It's a sunset, not a fireball rising over the New Jersey marshes.  Stare at it.  Think of nothing.

All right, here we go.

If you think the US is fucked, you're right, but Burkina Faso had its third coup in a year.

Afghanistan's currency has collapsed, its agriculture is crippled by drought and its people are starving since foreign aid dried up.  But just keep on complaining because your Kroger is out of extra-crunchy peanut butter.

Russian forces continue to roll up to the start lines for the expected invasion of Ukraine "to protect their security."  The last time NATO unilaterally invaded a country was...never.  

Joseph "Benedict XVI" Ratzinger has admitted lying about a meeting he attended in 1980.  The topic was a German pedophile priest named Peter Hullermann.  Instead of being handed over to police, Hullermann was transferred to several other cities and continued abusing boys. 

Rudolph Giuliani wants to return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when he was "America's mayor" and not a pathetic drunk under subpoena and permanently linked to the words "Four Seasons Total Landscaping."  To that end he is peddling limited-edition twentieth anniversary 911 shirt for the quite reasonable price of $911.  Proceeds go to charity, it says.

Former Alaska dilettante-governor Sarah Palin said she would get the covid vaccine "over my dead body."  She took another step in that direction today when her defamation suit against the New York Times was postponed.  The cow tested positive for coronavirus.

A lot more people are expected to do the same after Saturday's combined "My body/my choice - Your body/not your choice" viral extravaganza in Washington.  The anti-vaxers met the forced-birthers and agreed that everything they don't want to do is THE HOLOCAUST.  The yellow stars were too much for actual survivor Lucy Lipiner.  "I had to flee the Nazis to Siberia from Poland when I was six years old," she tweeted.  "Robert Kennedy Jr. is so ignorant I'm speechless."  Against stiff competition, RFK Jr won monster raving loony honors, conflating vaccines, Bill Gates's "satellites," 5G and Anne Frank.  What, no critical race theory?

(Forgive my wandering mind.  Years after he was released from a psychiatric hospital for killing Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw attended the opening of Radio City Music Hall.  Gazing around the lobby, he is reported to have said, "I shot the wrong architect."  I wonder if Sirhan Sirhan ever thinks...sorry, forget I brought it up.)

Wall Street seems to be rallying at the thought of war.  Bastards.

Neuter Gingrich has promised to send the entire January 6 committee to prison when the Republicans take control of Congress.  Also, he and his current wife will bring home ice dancing gold from Beijing next month.

Lying anti-vaxer Aaron Rodgers will not play in the Super Bowl.  Bastard.

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and people who can't afford it have lost a ton of money on cryptocurrency.  So imaginary currency can lose value?  Huh.  I'm going big into tulip bulb futures.

After stomping on abortion rights, the Supreme Court is now going after affirmative action.  Something tells me this won't stop until they take down the Fourteenth Amendment.  And possibly the Thirteenth.  Bastards.

Michael Cohen is a disbarred lawyer with sleazebag clients, but he's not usually wrong.  So when he told MSNBC that a decade ago his sleaziest client told him to make sure if one of his spawn had to take the hit and go to prison, "make sure" it's Junior and not Princess, I just nodded.  Junior responded to this "news" with a coke-fueled anti-Biden rant that probably didn't impress Daddy.  It's not as if he ever expressed a wish to date you, Junior.

Yech.  Back to the sunset.