I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but ever since The Last Guy left DC the news has lacked the crisis-a-minute pace it maintained for four years.
Say what you want about the voters of Arizona, at least they’re smart enough to be turned off by Kyrsten Sinema’s Joe Manchin impersonation. Her poll numbers back home have nosedived, something that never happens to Chris Coons or Tom Carper in Delaware when they trot out their Centrism Uber Alles anthem.
Major Delaware employer Amazon is fighting tooth and nail to keep out unions, so activists raised the alarm when the company removed the names of tens of thousands of low-level workers from its in-house directory. I’m sure Coons and Carper will stand up against that.
Astra-Zeneca released new numbers on its vaccine after U.S. officials complained that the data it offered two days earlier was out of date. Sure enough, its efficacy rate for preventing infection is 76%, not 79%.
Secretive graffiti artist Banksy produced a work for a hospital in Southampton, England, which the hospital then auctioned off to benefit health care workers. It sold for the equivalent of $23 million dollars, more than quadruple the pre-sale estimate.
Why is education in this country so shitty? Probably has a bit to do with the time and money wasted on sports. There’s apparently a push on in the General Assembly to remove the ban on out-of-season coaching, apparently because the parents of Delaware being the kind of assholes who think their kid is going to get a scholarship — I saw it first-hand coaching 9-year-old Little Leaguers. The geniuses in the General Assembly, led by Sherry Dorsey Walker, whose constituents deserve better, are threatening to go over the DIAA’s heads and against the advice of the high schools sports agency’s medical advisory board.
Major, the Bidens’ rescue German shepherd, is back at the White House after getting some training following his biting incident with a Secret Service agent. I think the whole thing was overblown; my guess is the agent had the stink of The Last Guy on him.
The floor’s yours.