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I've been unemployed almost a week now, and everything seems wicked weird.
It's the weekend, but whatever I'm doing at home doesn't need to be done before Monday.
Tomorrow morning, I won't need to be awake and at my desk by 6AM.
I can go grocery shopping or take a walk in the snow any damned time I please, even at 9 or noon or 3 on a weekday.
No meetings. No deadlines. No urgent messages to ignore.
There's no need to do anything or be anywhere by any when. Time doesn't quite mean nothing, but almost. And I never never never want to go back to work.
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The lovely illustration atop this page is by the illustrious Jeff Meyer.
A few lifetimes ago, Jeff's art often graced the covers of Pathetic Life and Zine World, and I am delighted to have him back.
You'll soon see a few more of his works hanging on the walls and classing up this dump.
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In 2020 I made the mistake of donating to ActBlue. Before giving, I asked in an email, if I clicked the pertinent "do not sell, rent, or share" box, would they indeed never sell, rent, or share my email address? They promised me they never would.
Two years later the political spam keeps coming, from everywhere. I live in Wisconsin, but regularly get solicitation spam from political candidates and causes in California, Mississippi, West Virginia, etc, and it's difficult to envision ever making another donation to any political candidate.
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Eccentric billionaire Mark Cuban has launched a company offering a wide swathe of prescription medicines, all at 15% markup. Routinely, many/most US pharmacies have much, much higher markups than that. On some of the sample listings at the Cost Plus Drugs website, the savings add up to thousands of dollars for a single prescription.
This could be a great help for people like me — with no health insurance, yet hoping to stay alive.
I first heard of this last week, but couldn't find news coverage of it, so I didn't mention it, and assumed it was likely a hoax. It's not a hoax. I haven't signed up yet, but my prescriptions will run out soon, and I'll likely be buying drugs from Mark Cuban.
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Hundreds of truckers are still protesting COVID rules in Ottawa.
Trucks are expensive, and truck drivers don't make nearly the money they made a few decades ago. Yet hundreds of trucks and truckers have been in Ottawa, protesting and honking and acting generally obnoxious, for a week now. It costs a lot of money to drive a truck to Ottawa, and then keep it idling there, instead of, you know, trucking.
You gotta suspect someone's covering their expenses.
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Athletes ‘dropping dead’ is the latest mutation of COVID vaccine misinformation
On the radio, I listened as QAnon wingnut Senator Ron Johnson talked about this — on a live microphone — to actual reporters — as if it's a thing. One simple Google search told me, it's not a thing. At all. Athletes are not dropping dead after getting COVID vaccines.
Johnson is a Senator. He's my Senator, actually. And he's just pulling crap out of his ass, saying nonsense like this all the time. And he's not the only one, not even the worst of them.
To hell with all these elected idiots who just make shit up and repeat nonsensical rumors, to scare people. And to hell with the idiots stupid enough to vote for these idiots — which means, to hell with about 47% of America.
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Good think-piece on Brian Flores's lawsuit over NFL racism.
The next step is seeing who in the NFL is done dancing and will stand with him and finally air out the racism in the building. Flores comes from the New England Patriots coaching tree. Will Belichick and the rest of his protégés hold a press conference in support of Flores and his character? Will the NFL’s so-called “social justice committee” stand with Flores? Will players who spoke out against racism outside the NFL point their finger inside the tent? This is a moment when silences will speak volumes.
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This will probably mean nothing to you if you're under 40, but for old folks it's fabulous: Dial-up rock'n'roll.
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That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
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Former zoo for sale. $3.6-million. No animals included.
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What happened to Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai — and to the man she accused?
Nobody knows, but the answer can't be good.
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Rogen says his repeated use of n-word on his show was repeatedly taken out of context
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How student debt is sabotaging America
It's a long and dense read, but I think you can handle it.
Every other developed country in the world knows this, too: student debt is a rare or even nonexistent thing in most western democracies. Not only is college free or close to free around much of the world; many countries even offer a stipend for monthly expenses like our GI Bill did back in the day.
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"I worked in live TV for over 20 years, walked away to talk about what Trump did behind the scenes on Celebrity Apprentice (like using N-word, & snorting Adderall) didn’t get a single mainstream media request. Rudy Giuliani tried to overthrow democracy and got a spot on The Masked Singer."
—Noel Casler
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Johnson & Johnson tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story
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One-word newscast:
• cops
• cops
• QAnon
Dead:
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Mystery links — Like life itself, there’s no knowing where you’re going:
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♫♬ Sing along with Doug ♫
"Night Life" — Mary Lou Williams
2/6/2022
Tip 'o the hat to All Hat No Cattle, Linden Arden, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf's, Captain Hampockets, CaptCreate's Log, Follow Me Here, John the Basket, LiarTownUSA, National Zero, Please Do Not Publish My Name, Ran Prieur, Voenix Rising, and anyone else I've stolen from but forgot to say thanks.
Extra special thanks to Becky Jo, Name Withheld, Dave S., and always Stephanie...
Cranky Old Man