Why there are so many shortages. (It's not Covid-19.)
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"A new inauguration date is set": Inside the latest QAnon conspiracy theory to "reinstate" Trump.
Flynn says he didn't endorse Myanmar-style coup after he appears to back plan in video exchange. Are these people not aware of the existence of video recording technology?
An Amazonian tribe may have discovered the secret to keeping the brain from aging. Some secret... good diet, exercise. Just once I'd like it to be some indigenous plant that can be synthesized in a home kitchen.
The pandemic is getting worse, even when it seems like it's getting better.
Contrary to earlier research, Vitamin D may not protect against COVID-19.
Remember Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips? It's coming back.
You have a week to opt-out of Amazon Sidewalk. Do it now. "If the idea of sharing part of your network with the neighbors is totally fine with you, please consider the fact that Amazon is a company of liars who cannot be trusted."
After 75,000 Echo arbitration demands, Amazon now lets you sue it. The change apparently was brought about by a surge in arbitration demands over revelations that Amazon's Echo devices were sometimes recording and saving conversations without consent, including those involving children. Those recordings allegedly ran afoul of laws in several states that require consent before recording and data collection.
Humans are causing mass extinction at a rate not seen since the last major extinction event. A new study suggests that we are entering a period of mass extinction comparable to the one 66 million years ago.
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is American Indian Citizenship Day, Global Running Day, I Love My Dentist Day, National Bubba Day, National Leave the Office Early Day, National Rocky Road Day, National Rotisserie Chicken Day, National Tailors' Day, and Yell "Fudge" at the Cobras in North America Day.
Birthdays
- 1740 – Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and politician (d. 1814)
- 1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
- 1941 – Stacy Keach, American acto
- 1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
- 1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor ("Leave it to Beaver")
- 1953 – Cornel West, American philosopher, author, and academic
- 1955 – Dana Carvey, American comedian and actor
- 1972 – Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game show host, and singer
- 1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor and produce
- 1978 – Justin Long, American actor
- 1979 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-American actress
- 1982 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
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(Grandma and Edie, 1972)
My paternal grandmother, Esther Schotting, passed away on this date in 1979. She and my grandfather raised me for the most part; they and the late Earle Wittpenn are mainly responsible for the person I am today. I remember her watching me as I walked home from elementary school in the afternoon, or crossing Eighth Avenue to go to Isaly's or McCrory's. She was always at a window, always looking for me.
In her last years, when I was changing buses to go to my job in Pittsburgh, she was there in the window in the apartment on Ann Street. I probably looked like an idiot, waving in the dark to no one visible. But I knew she was there.
The only time I ever saw my grandmother in a church was when I got married. She claimed she was an "old-time Baptist" and liked listening to Mahalia Jackson records and watching Billy Graham on the tv.
The local Baptist minister graciously agreed to conduct her service. I was holding up pretty well, until he ended his eulogy to a woman he never met with a poem by Margaret Widdemer that precisely described her:
She always leaned to watch for us,
Anxious if we were late,
In
winter by the window,
In summer by the gate.
And though we mocked her tenderly,
Who had such foolish care,
The
long way home would seem more safe
Because she waited there.
Her thoughts were all so full of us,
She never could forget!
And
so I think that where she is
She must be watching yet.
Waiting till we come home to her,
Anxious if we are late,
Watching
from Heaven’s window,
Leaning on Heaven’s gate.
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