140 ummmm errrr yeaaah wellll

A friend who is a teacher in Kansas is posting a lot about school reopenings. She's suggested adding tents, it has gone nowhere. She thinks there should be a big-ass national tent erecting scheme right now. That might make for a chilly winter, but as we all know now, you don't catch a cold from the cold, you catch it from a virus.

Alternatively, we could keep going down Syria-road toward civil war, and soon the federal government could be offering free school makeovers, in the form of aerial munitions.


So, how is reopening schools looking, anyway?

It's early days.

What does gold mean?

"Up to you."


"Up to you" is the phrase I use when Deb wants to do something, and keeps asking what I think, and I keep saying no, but she keeps asking again.


After MERS, I guess the UAE takes their pandemics seriously. First fifteen minutes test results at the airport (back in March), now this...

Well, it took a little more than a virus. Four decades of neoliberal conservatism pulling the rug from under the working class may have played a part, too.

Winning.

See, it's disappeared!

Crushed it.

Oh yeah.

Well...

Umm...

Yeah!

Ohh...

Uhhh...

Ummmm...

Yeesh.

File under: more winning

So Tattoo Stone is out of jail, but the guy he was so excited to get the emails from?

Slowly, and not at all surely.

This is the future. (Plus or minus a rain canopy and other conveniences.)


Tik tok, tik tok, tik tok...

2020 fall fashion is arriving.

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