201 on the other hand

On the other hand, maybe he is faking it.

At this point, we know a few things about dear leader. He lies. He gets people around him to lie. He likes to paint a rosy picture. He learned a lot about camera optics from his time in Tinseltown.

Five (or is it six?) days in, and he's aching to get back to normal.

If he is faking it, that should be relatively easy.

If he's not faking it, he might still convince his doctors to fake something.

Like how well he's doing?

Or what treatments he's receiving?

Or how his lungs are doing?

No, really, how are they doing?

It's not unusual for presidential health matters to get a bit of cover up.

Or for people around dear leader to bend the truth a little.

An experimental antibody treatment, a viral suppressant, vitamin D, zinc, and a steroid that makes you delusional all get together in one IV drip...

No, he's not, look!

He's fine! Getting much better!

I guess time will tell. In the meantime we'll all get to know this guy.

And we probably won't see this lady:

In the immortal words of dear leader, "TOGETHER!"

A while ago I found myself in the curious place of telling some friends that US carbon dioxide emissions have fallen over the past twenty years.

And even though I knew we have really just offshored that pollution (along with the related manufacturing jobs), I kinda omitted that detail. It wasn't convenient for blowing their minds.

But it was intellectually dishonest, the kind of fact-ish based arguing I get from one of my smarty-pants-ier right wing relatives. There's a fact, but it's not the whole story.

So I'm just walking that back right here. For the record, the US hasn't reduced our emissions. We sent them overseas. 

Phew, ok, sorry, and thanks for setting the record straight, Greta.

And back to the virus...

The US is so far behind, it's, as someone would say in all caps, SAD.

And back to the environment...

Could it be because they seem to be the funnest way to delay the end of the world? Some little bit of consumer action we can take to reduce our carbon footprint? 

We're never really going to get out of this hole by consuming more stuff, but that's what we've been trained to think is the solution for everything, so, at least they're not a hybrid.

And they actually offer up some exercise.

(At least if you're riding up and down mountains on one.)

Anyone want to start a bike company with me?

Talking to my brother-in-law Saturday about the classes he's taking senior year in high school, he mentioned "IT."

"What do you learn there?"

"How to use word."

"Huh," I said, "It seems like they ought to have a class where students teach teachers how to use current technology."

And back to the virus...
NYC wants to shut down again. Remember how this played out in the spring? For a week the mayor and the governor squared off about whether or not to shut down, during which time the city became the fucking world epicenter for the disease?

While we're in NYC, let's do a quick pivot to the environment-ish, where fellow car-free advocate The Photobomber had work featured in the background of the SNL season premiere!

Bad-ass!

And finally, anyone notice how today kept going back and forth between the virus and the environment? It's almost like they're related or something.


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