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Scientists Create Antibody That Defeats Coronavirus in Lab
I would have to infer from the headline that the Pekingese didn’t make it.
(Headline stolen from a friend’s Facebook page; my schtick recreated here for your amusement.)
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Headline: DOJ says to ‘expect action’ on religious gatherings and social distancing regulation.
The news item comes from a tweet:
The Federal government is not going to act on religious organizations; it is looking to monitor lower governments’ actions, that is, state and local governments’ enforcement on social distancing as it regards to religious organizations.
No doubt this is in response to anecdotal stories about governments ticketing drive-in services and whatnot.
However, the oversimplification in the headline makes it sound like the Federal government itself is getting ready to crack down on churches and synagogues. But that is not my reading of it.
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Wildlife ranger mauled to death by shark on Great Barrier Reef was doing “dream job”
To be honest, I’ve never been mauled by a shark in a dream, but if I did, I would probably startle myself awake when the shark got really close.
There’s a reason that I’ve chosen a home thousands of miles from sharks.
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ICYMI: Gov. Parson says he singed a sixth execute order during daily COVID update.
Our governor is so small government that he lights edicts on fire.
Wait, a minute, this just in: Naw, apparently it’s a typo in the headline. He signed the thing. Although it’s an order suspending late penalties for concealed carry licenses which is Missouri enough.
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Apparently, in Britain, embarrassment is 10% as deadly as Coronavirus.
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The headline on and the article itself are a little more clear that it wasn’t the cops who were killed fifty years ago.
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Catastrophic cold comes to Britain!
Sweet Christmas, 1C is just a little above absolute zero, where all motion stops! Britain will be devastated!
Wait a minute, someone has just informed me that 1C is actually just above freezing. 1 K[elvin] on the other hand, is very cold indeed.
You know, I read somewhere that Britain once was a globe-striding colossus and that its photographers once scaled the Himalayas practically barefoot for fun, but I’m having trouble believing that when its newspapers hype up 1C temperatures.
You know what we call 1C in Wisconsin? Late spring.
I went to pick up my boys from school today, and it was 1C and raining. And I didn’t put on a coat.
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Anthony Todt, accused of killing family in Celebration, Florida, ordered held without bail.
As any student of Dr. Russ Reising could tell you, todt means dead in German.
Which means that schieß dem Fenster is not the only German I know.
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World’s first fully autonomous robot cat is programmed to be aloof
You get it? “Ay, no.”
I gotta explain my gags sometimes.
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The biggest mistakes people make when they move to San Francisco
The biggest, not included? Moving to San Francisco.
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Headline: E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules.
Reality:
A new draft of the Environmental Protection Agency proposal, titled Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, would require that scientists disclose all of their raw data, including confidential medical records, before the agency could consider an academic study’s conclusions.
So, basically, no more regulations made based on tl;dr interpretations of single, unrepeated studies.
So, you know, basically limiting science to science and not desired interpretations leading to desired law.
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Kincade Fire burns through California
Yes, I know, the “Painter of Light” spelled his name differently. But why let that get in the way of a wry quip?
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Bed Bath & Beyond names new CEO
Behold, Suburbianal IV!
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St. Louis used car dealership employee scammed customers of $89,000, charges say
Or was she fired for not being good enough?
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Someone has killed 42 wild burros in the Mojave Desert, and there’s a $50,000 reward.
That’s only like $1000 per donkey. I can see why the killer isn’t bothering to collect the reward.
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A portion of Highway 65 is planning to reopen.
Just what else does this portion of a highway have in mind for the future?
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‘Shark Week’ starts off with another Cape Cod beach closing:
As viewers around the country begin to sink their teeth into Discovery’s annual “Shark Week,” the aquatic predators continue to lurk around the Cape, causing numerous beach closures over the weekend.
Another shark sighting shut down a Cape Cod beach Sunday, this time at Marconi when a lifeguard saw a shark fin about 40 yards from the shore. The beach was then shut down for an hour starting at 11:45 a.m., per the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app.
Cape Cod rentals are having an unexpectedly slow summer:
Happen to have this week off and no plans? You might still find a vacancy on Cape Cod.
A Truro cottage set atop a coastal bluff with stairs to a private beach was still available on Friday — at a $1,100 discount. It was the first time in three decades that a summer week at the cottage went unclaimed, the owner said, and it’s not the only week still available.
A mystery for the ages!
Actually, the second article does mention the shark sightings.
Me, I’m worried because shark attacks were all in the news during the summer of 2001. Then some people did something that knocked the sharks out of the headlines.
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Springfield Cardinals balk at parking fee hike
Query: Did the headline writer know that the verb in the headline has a very specific meaning in baseball?
Speculate among yourselves.
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All 5 Arkansas medical marijuana plants under construction
Additionally, I question whether five plants is enough for a whole state.
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