It’s been exactly eleven months since my last Covid shot. Tomorrow I will receive the new booster. I assume we should expect that Covid shots, like flu vaccines, are now an annual ritual.
Matters of Ongoing Concern
This is jawdroppingly offensive. One case was designed to undo Jim Crow-era segregation; the other to promote racial diversity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/supreme-court-term-conservative-targets/
The Constitution treats insurrection and rebellion as political dangers, not protected rights.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/us-second-amendment.html
Should Internet time synchronization run on rigorously tested and battle-worn but whimsical and arguably bloated code that someone may still struggle to fully understand, even after devoting decades to it?
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time
Skinny Beatles In No Longer Rare Photos!
Historian Mark Lewisohn described them as “whippet-thin under-nourished lads” following their tour to Germany.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-63110249
(They took a lot of uppers in Hamburg.)
Gag Me With a Spoon, Moon
Forty years since “Valley Girl”?? Like, omigod, n’way!
Parade’s Personality Change
Parade magazine will cease print publication on November 6.
https://news.yahoo.com/parade-magazine-digital-only-035900562.html
The end of the once-ubiquitous Sunday newspaper insert will come within a couple of weeks of the 59th anniversary of my peak Boomer-era family being featured in its pages. We had the unfortunate timing of appearing during the weekend after JFK’s assasination.
That’s me leaning over the tail light.
Cranky Peevishness
“Happy Birthday in Heaven” notices on Facebook for deceased public figures really annoy me. I see this quite often, even for non-Christians. “Remembering [insert name] on their birthday” is standard for many organizations, and it’s the practice that should be followed by everybody.