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'Black Widow' Stunner: Disney's streaming revenue reveal may be game-changer. It takes something really major to get me into a movie theater these days.
It may sound strange, given a year of panic over school closures and reopenings, a year of masking toddlers and closing playgrounds and huddling in pandemic pods, that among children the mortality risk from COVID-19 is actually lower than from the flu.
FDA adds warning about rare reaction to J&J COVID-19 vaccine.
The 'Lambda' variant is now found in 29 countries. Here's what we know about it. Lambda? What about Epsilon through Kappa?
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From Crazytown:
Fox News hosts smear Covid vaccine, despite outbreaks among unvaccinated.
With Covid surging, GOP members continue to discourage vaccination. (Video)
Don Jr. bombs at CPAC as crowd cheers low vaccination rates: A Closer Look. (Video)
Neighbors see Trump waiting by mailbox for reinstatement notice. "When the mail truck comes, he gets this excited look on his face." (Satire: Andy Borowitz)
Student charged with putting Hitler quote in school yearbook.
Allen Weisselberg removed as officer of Trump Organization subsidiaries.
A new and rapidly growing Christian movement is openly political, wants a nation under God's authority, and is central to Donald Trump's GOP. They forget about that pesky U.S. Constitution: "...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." (Article VI, paragraph 3). It's the only place in the entire Constitution where the word "ever" appears, so the founders were pretty clear on their intent, no?
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is
- Barbershop Music Appreciation Day
- Beans 'n' Franks Day
- Embrace Your Geekness Day
- Fool's Paradise Day
- Go West Day
- Gruntled Workers Day
- National Beef Tallow Day
- National French Fry Day
On this date:
- 1832 - The source of the Mississippi River was discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft
- 1863 - New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription began three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
- 1865 - Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the "New-York Tribune" reportedly told his readers to "Go west, young man"
- 1871 - World's first championship cat show was organized by Harrison Weir and held at the Crystal Palace in London.
- 1917 - A vision of the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to children in Fatima, Portugal
- 1923 - The Hollywood Sign was officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
- 1955 - The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, took place at Holloway Prison, London
- 1960 - Democrats selected John F. Kennedy as their nominee for President.
- 1973 - Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee
- 1977 - An electrical blackout in New York City lasted nearly 24 hours, contributing to widespread fires and looting.
- 2013 - Black Lives Matter movement created in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin.
Birthdays
- 1864 - John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman and soldier (richest passenger aboard the Titanic) (d. 1912)
- 1913 - Dave Garroway, American journalist and television personality (d. 1982) (Video)
- 1926 - Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager ("Star Trek")(d. 2008) (Video)
- 1928 - Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978) (Video)
- 1940 - Sir Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer (Video)
- 1941 - Robert Forster, American actor and producer (d. 2019) (Video)
- 1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor and producer (Video)
- 1946 - Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian (Video)
- 1951 - Didi Conn, American actress and singer (Video)
- 1957 - Cameron Crowe, American director, producer, and screenwriter (Video)
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Miscellany
Can mankind be unified by an extra-terrestrial threat? The reaction to Covid has shown that the 'unity through crises' model of the global ruling class has backfired. Moot point. Any advanced civilizations monitoring us know to avoid us.
Duh. TikTok trend of whitening teeth with Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is not safe, dentists say.
8 secrets Domino's doesn't want you to know.
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Categories: Allen Weisselberg; Black Widow; Christians; Covid-19; Donald Trump; Fox News; Marvel; Republicans; Seth Meyers; Stephen Colbert
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In case you missed it, a play-by-play of the Virgin Galactic flight hosted by Stephen Colbert.
This pizza chain owner who pays $16 an hour says there's no labor shortage, just a shortage of businesses willing to pay a decent wage. "If you aren't paying your employees enough to cover basic survival costs, what possible incentive could a person have to take that job?"
Last week's fake news: Graphene in vaccines, fake delta variant, kneeling Biden, veteran snub...
How did my phone number end up for sale on a US database? Ah, the wonders of technology. And social media.
Infections rise in 42 states; Fauci says it's 'horrifying' to see people cheer lack of vaccinations.
Cold weather virus in summer baffles docs, worries parents. RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a common cause of cold-like symptoms but can be serious for infants and the elderly. Cases dropped dramatically last year, with people staying home and social distancing, but began cropping up as pandemic restrictions eased.
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From Crazytown:
Trump on Jan. 6 insurrection: 'These were great people'.
Trump wins 2024 CPAC straw poll With 70 percent. (Video)
A seven point plan to reinstate Donald Trump as president 'in days, not years' was handed out at CPAC. It's insane, but constitutional. Sort of.
Heineken suffers Twitter boycott from anti-vaxxers over disco-themed pro-vaccination ad.
Trump sues eighty-one million voters for banning him from White House.(Satire: Andy Borowitz)
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
This is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. (Video)
Among other things, today is
- National Different Colored Eyes Day
- Etch A Sketch Day
- International Town Criers Day
- National Eat Your Jell-O Day
- National Pecan Pie Day
- New Conversations Day
- Orangemen's Day
- Paper Bag Day
- Simplicity Day
On this date:
- 1804 - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton died after being shot in a pistol duel by Vice President Aaron Burr
- 1862 - The Medal of Honor was authorized by the United States Congress.
- 1906 - Alfred Dreyfus was found innocent in France
- 1909 - Congress passed The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allowing it to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
- 1940 - Frederick McKinley Jones received a patent for an air conditioning unit for trucks carrying perishable goods. He later co-founded Thermo King
- 1960 - The Etch a Sketch toy was introduced, selling for $2.99
- 1972 - Democrats nominated George McGovern for US president in Miami, Florida
- 1973 - A fire destroyed the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States near St. Louis, MO.
- 1976 - First "Family Feud" game show debuted on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson (Video)
- 1979 - "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park: fans riot destroying disco records and causing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the second game of a double header to the Detroit Tigers
- 1984 - Geraldine Ferraro became the first US female major-party vice-presidential candidate, after Walter Mondale selected her as his Democratic Party running mate
Birthdays
- 100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman politician and general (d. 44 BC)
- 1817 - Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (d. 1862)
- 1854 - George Eastman, American businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (d. 1933)
- 1884 - Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (d. 1957)
- 1895 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère (d. 1983)
- 1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and songwriter (d. 1960)
- 1908 - Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (d. 2002)
- 1909 - Joe DeRita, American actor (Curly-Joe of The Three Stooges) (d. 1993)
- 1917 - Andrew Wyeth, American artist (d. 2009)
- 1934 - Van Cliburn, American pianist and composer (d. 2013) (Video)
- 1937 - Bill Cosby,American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
- 1943 - Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Video)
- 1948 - Ben Burtt, American director, screenwriter, and sound designer ("Star Wars") (Video)
- 1948 - Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer and actor (Video)
- 1951 - Cheryl Ladd, American actress
- 1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
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Miscellany
Unopened Legend of Zelda game from 1987 sells for $870,000.
Giant pandas are no longer endangered, thanks to conservation efforts, China says. But they're still "vulnerable."
Colby would be official Wisconsin cheese under bill.
Holding up on that wake-up coffee until the cortisol wears off...
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Categories: Covid-19; Donald Trump; Fact check; Fox News; January 6; Medicine; Richard Branson; Rupert Murdoch; Shark Week; Social Media; Stephen Colbert; Unemployment; Virgin Galactic
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(KGB Report will return on Monday, July 12.)
Job openings in restaurants and hotels were slightly higher in May while the number of people quitting jobs in those places also inched up, to just over 700,000. Overall, 3.6 million people quit their jobs in May. That's down from a record four million in April but still a high level of turnover.
There's a shortage of patio furniture. Really.
Earth may not be in any danger from asteroids. Chinese researchers to use rockets to deflect them. At China's National Space Science Center, researchers found in simulations that 23 Long March 5 rockets hitting simultaneously could deflect a large asteroid from its original path by a distance 1.4 times the Earth's radius.
17 tips to live comfortably off just a Social Security check. These articles are written by kids in their 20s who don't fully appreciate the potential effects of what they're suggesting. One's perspective is a bit different when you reach the age that classic radio stations start playing "oldies" first released when your kids were in high school.
New UC Berkeley study suggests cell phones sharply increase tumor risk. Researchers took a comprehensive look at statistical findings from 46 different studies around the globe and found that the use of a cell phone for more than 1,000 hours, or about 17 minutes a day over a ten year period, increased the risk of tumors by 60 percent.
Pandemic Potpourri:
Moderna starts human trials of an mRNA-based flu shot. Moderna says it hopes to eventually create combination vaccines that could protect people against flu, COVID-19, and other respiratory infections with one shot.
About 160 Covid-19 infections are linked to a Texas church youth camp- including cases of the Delta variant. Of the roughly 160 people infected, six (about 3.7%) had been vaccinated.
COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs.COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs. Also: Fitbit data points to lingering physical changes for some Covid-19 sufferers. On average, it took 79 days for the elevated resting heart rate of people with covid-19 symptoms to drop back to normal, the study found.
Delta variant slams Missouri as ICUs fill and ventilators run low. This should probably be in the "Crazytown" section. As Alex Haley said, "Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you." (More reality quotes)
Amid uptick in cases, Oklahoma sees high hospital admission rate for COVID-19 patients. Across the state, nearly 28% of people who have had a positive COVID-19 test in the last two weeks were admitted to hospital...
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From Crazytown:
Trump sues Twitter, Facebook, Google and CEOs Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Pichai. The three related lawsuits, filed in federal court in Florida, allege the tech giants have violated plaintiffs' First Amendments rights. Of course, if Trump or his lawyers had actually read the Constitution, he'd know the First Amendment only addresses the government infringing upon speech, not social networks whose user agreements you violated by inciting an insurrection. Anyway, he's using it as another fundraising ploy.
Ivanka Trump is probably next on the chopping block: former federal prosecutor. Experts say the Manhattan District Attorney's Office is likely looking into "consulting fees" paid to Ivanka despite her having been a full-time employee of the Trump Organization.
"Fleet of 10 UFOs" spotted hovering near International Space Station on NASA live stream.
Book says Trump praised Hitler during same trip that he disparaged U.S. war dead.
Giuliani's law license in Washington suspended.
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is
- Be a Kid Again Day
- Math 2.0 Day
- National Freezer Pop Day
- National Ice Cream Sundae Day
- National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day
- SCUD Day
On this date:
- 1776 - Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) were rung after John Nixon delivered the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States
- 1797 - Senator William Blount of Tennessee was expelled by the Senate and became the first US federal official to face impeachment.
- 1889 - The first issue of The Wall Street Journal was published.
- 1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds in the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match.
- 1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
- 1994 - Kim Jong-il began to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
- 2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
Birthdays
- 1838 - Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (d. 1898)
- 1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (d. 1917)
- 1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company(d. 1937)
- 1908 - Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
- 1914 - Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player (d. 1993)
- 1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Jerry Vale, American singer (d. 2014)
- 1934 - Marty Feldman,English actor and screenwriter (d. 1982) (Video)
- 1935 - Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer
- 1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor and singer
- 1947 - Kim Darby, American actress (Video)
- 1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-American chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur
- 1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress and director
- 1952 - Jack Lambert, American football player and sportscaster
- 1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor and musician (Video)
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Miscellany
Wanna delay aging? Get castrated, scientists say. "It's not an ideal solution." Ya think?
Beating a literally dead horse: 'Night of the Animated Dead' to adapt zombie classic. I maintain George Romero's original 1968 classic is the only zombie movie you need to see. Everything else is egregiously derivative.
Grasshoppers invade western US in largest swarms in 35 years, plaguing farmers and ranchers.
12-foot python escapes inside Louisiana's largest mall.
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More than 230 people die in shootings over the Fourth of July weekend.
Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, U.S. firm's CEO says.
Study links early-onset colorectal cancer with sugar-sweetened drinks. (Video)
The U.S. military is testing a pill that could delay aging.
Beware of "shrinkflation,"" inflation's devious cousin. "Consumers tend to be price conscious. But they're not net-weight conscious. They can tell instantly if they're used to paying $2.99 for a carton of orange juice and that goes up to $3.19. But if the orange juice container goes from 64 ounces to 59 ounces, they're probably not going to notice."
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From Crazytown:
QAnon followers think secret trials will be held for COVID rule enforcers- 'Nuremberg 2.0'.
QAnon spreads Biden photo online claiming it shows Trump is secretly in the White House.
The Trump kids look likely to turn on their dad... Ivanka will go first. The former president is not in immediate danger of jail, but his problems are piling up fast. Not least the fact that, in his family, loyalty means nothing.
GETTR, the pro-Trump social media platform, gottrd hacked on its launch day.
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is
- Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day
- Global Forgiveness Day
- National Dive Bar Day
- National Macaroni Day
- National Strawberry Sundae Day
- Tell the Truth Day
- World Chocolate Day
On this date:
- 1456 - A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
- 1863 - The United States began its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
- 1865 - Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt were executed for their role in the conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln
- 1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- 1928 - Sliced bread was sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
- 1930 - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
- 1954 - Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right". (Video)
- 1981 - US President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1992 - The New York Court of Appeals ruled that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
- 2035 - Launch date of NASA's Aries 3 mission to Mars in the novel and movie "The Martian"
Birthdays
- 1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1911) (Video)
- 1899 - George Cukor, American director and producer (d. 1983) (Video)
- 1901 - Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
- 1906 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)
- 1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 1988) (Video)
- 1927 - Doc Severinsen, American trumpet player and conductor (Video)
- 1933 - David McCullough, American historian and author
- 1940 - Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (Video)
- 1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress, writer, and producer (Video)
- 1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter and actress (Video)
- 1966 - Jim Gaffigan, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
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Miscellany
Remembering Richard Donner: With "Superman" and the "Lethal Weapon" Films, he made the blockbuster era both bigger and smaller. Trivia: Donner directed all the live action segments of the first season of Hanna-Barbera's kid show, "The Banana Splits."
Please stop putting garlic up your nose on TikTok, doctors request.
Man bitten by neighbor's escaped python while sitting on the toilet. Why was the python sitting on the toilet?
Labor Department announces plans to stop counting jobs and just enjoy economy.(satire: The Onion)
Charlotte flight to Bahamas canceled when high schoolers refuse to wear masks.
There is a sunken continent hidden under Iceland and scientists dubbed it Icelandia. Other Iceland news: Four-day work week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland.
Time to cancel police dogs, experts say. Police K-9s are "grossly, disproportionately" used against people of color, inflict gruesome lifelong injuries, and often attack people who have committed minor crimes. I oppose their use because the dogs are unaware of the danger in which they're often placed. To them, it's just a game.
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