Fires and floods are disastrous elsewhere in the United States. Canadian wildfires are casting a yellow haze over us in Massachusetts.
But don’t worry, climate change is a lie started by Democrats. What we should be worrying about is the fraudulent 2020 election that Trump will be explaining tomorrow night, in his typically cogent and detailed manner.
I’m thinking Joe Sinnott probably had Bing Crosby’s Hey Jude/Hey Bing! album in his record collection. 65-year-old Bing covered two Apple label singles from the fall of ’68.
On December 11, 1961, ABC-TV in America broadcast a TV special that Bing had produced in England, in which he performed this humorous rendition of ‘The Sheik of Araby’.
A few weeks later, on January 1, 1962, the Beatles, with Pete Best on drums, recorded their own humorous take of ‘The Sheik of Araby’ at their Decca Records audition.
Pat Oliphant has died. Originally from Australia, Oliphant found his way to America, where he established himself as one of the leading political cartoonists. He was an exceptionally gifted draftsman, with a loose and seemingly effortless drawing style.
Here’s the NYTimes obit/appreciation:
Thanks to babying my foot yesterday, it held up reasonably well today to walk around Sail Boston.
Argh. My stupid foot is failing me again, but it’s my brain that’s stupid. Following my usual pattern, as my jogging (too slow to call it running) was improving, I pushed my ankle, and my luck, too far. So, I’m back in the boot I first wore 20(!) years ago.
I was out of bed at 7:00 this morning. Early for me on a Sunday.
Checking the news, I saw that Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky had died. No surprise there.
Wait. That’s not McConnell. What the ding-dong heck? Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina is dead?? Don’t tell Mitch!
