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President Trump stated he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine for the last week and a half.  What are the chances he’s been given a placebo? The FDA has issued repeated warnings about the dangers of the drug, so it doesn’t sound like good doctoring.

I think “despite all odds” is overused.

Texas is opening up more and more, but there’s just not enough of a downward trend for this family unit to tip-toe back into public.

On May 31, day and overnight youth camps, sports camps and sports leagues may resume operations.

I’m curious to know how youth sports, VBS, and other camps will be this summer. Kids have been trapped indoors and haven’t had the chance to socialize and be like kids, and I bet a lot of parents are wanting a breather from their children. I can see how other families may feel comfortable with returning to normal, especially if you live in a small town. I hope I’m wrong, but I fear we are setting ourselves up for a second wave that will be worst than the first.

The Last Dance was supposed to be a documentary about the last season of the Jordan-era Chicago Bulls, but in reality, it was a documentary controlled by Jordan about his entire career. I wish it would have touched on what he was like as a husband or father. I think his kids got about 35-seconds total in the ten-episode arc. His mother and brother got a decent amount of time, but nothing from his ex-wife. I think we all know the answer though, his first love was either basketball or competitiveness (baseball, golf, gambling, etc).

Inside the cleaner (but less convenient) McDonald’s of the future – COVID-19 will change what it’s like to eat at a McDonald’s so much that maybe we’ll just stick to drive-through.

One-Thousand-Year-Old English Mill Resumes Production to Supply Flour Amid Pandemic – In April alone, the Sturminster Newton Mill ground more than one ton of wheat

Nebraska Woman Files Suit Against All Homosexuals

A Nebraska woman identifying herself as the “ambassador” for plaintiffs “God and His Son, Jesus Christ,” is suing all homosexuals on Earth for breaking “religious and moral laws,” according to court records filed Tuesday.

In the suit, entered into the docket as Driskell v. Homosexuals, Sylvia Ann Driskell, 66, of Auburn, Nebraska, asks in a seven-page, neatly handwritten petition (PDF) that U.S. District Judge John M. Gerrard decide once and for all whether homosexuality is or isn’t a sin.

Texas tries a pandemic first: a jury trial by Zoom

Lawyers in an insurance dispute in Collin County District Court on Monday picked a jury to hear the case by videoconference, in what officials believe is the first virtual jury trial to be held nationally amid the COVID-19 crisis.

More than two dozen potential jurors logged in by smartphone, laptop and tablet for jury selection, which was streamed live on YouTube here with a judge occasionally providing tech advice on how to best use their devices.

The one-day trial is a so-called summary jury trial, in which jurors hear a condensed version of a case and deliver a non-binding verdict.

The parties, having seen how their case could fare before a jury in a full-blown trial, will sit down for mediation and try to negotiate a settlement on Tuesday.

I’m a bit surprised that everyone working at the White House aren’t wearing red MAGA masks with white letters.

ESPN’s The Last Dance was a great thing to watch. I have bittersweet memories watching the 1998 NBA Finals. I knew it was going to be Jordan’s last run and then two weeks after winning his second three-peat my father died. Dad spent the entire series in the hospital, unconscious for most of it.

It looked like some of Jordan’s games with the Bulls were filmed in HD, but it seems I don’t think the timeline matches up. If his games weren’t filmed in HD, I don’t understand how they can make non-HD material look so good when other non-HD stuff looks very pixelated.

The Jazz deserved to lose simply because of those ugly team colors and jerseys.

Celebrities Perform Weird Al’s ‘Eat It’ During

Featuring: Scott Adsit, Al Yankovic, Fred Armisen, Rachel Bloom, Amy Carlson, Bryan Cranston , David Cross, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Al Franken, Heidi Gardner, Tony Hale, John Hodgman, Jack Black, Michael Mando, Michael McKean, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk, Alison Pill, Phil Rosenthal, Paul Scheer, Rhea Seehorn and Amber Tamblyn.

The best part of my supermarket job was the people. Now, they’re the worst part. – I can’t help but see shoppers in terms of risk — especially when they deliberately break the rules

This 3D tour of Ramesses VI tomb is pretty cool, even on a mobile device.

OMG coyote vs roadrunner is real and it’s happening right now y’all!!! #Tucson pic.twitter.com/a64qEbcCdv

— Michael Thomas Bogan (@mtbogan) May 10, 2020

Cereal box hack

I cook a lot for my family and sometimes I’ll look for recipes for ideas. I’ve found most online recipes start off with some sort of sappy or feelgood family story which takes up 80% of what’s on the page. Dude, just give me the recipe. Or, as Parcells would say, “Don’t tell me about the pain, show me the baby.”

Goodbye, Sprint – T-Mobile will begin eliminating the Sprint brand this summer

Hundreds of Navy recruits quarantine at closed water park before basic training

The Navy is spending roughly $1.1 million to send about 500 recruits each week to the Great Wolf Lodge Water Park near Chicago for two weeks of quarantine before they are shipped to basic training, service officials said.

I think of all the automotive brands which have dropped over the years I miss Pontiac the most. My first two cars were Grand Ams.

US Postal Service delays next-generation mail truck program due to pandemic

The post office now uses about 140,000 Grumman Long Life Vehicles for its main delivery service. Manufactured from 1987 through 1994, they need to be replaced. A 2014 audit from the office of the USPS inspector general found that the current fleet was expected to only meet the delivery needs of the agency through the 2017 fiscal year. But delays in the replacement program have kept the trucks in operation.

It may resemble a Roomba but it’s cool looking.

Raiders Stadium from the air #Raiders pic.twitter.com/2e39r4DByR

— CleWest (@erjmanlasvegas) May 11, 2020

New York City breaks record: 58 straight days with no pedestrian deaths – This is the longest stretch since NYC began tracking pedestrian deaths in 1983.

Yesterday I posted about a restaurant using mannequins.

SC restaurant dresses, seats blow-up dolls to maintain social distancing

Easily, I’ve seen the movie more than 50 times, but offhand, I don’t recall a “Chipper”.

Every Call Sign From ‘Top Gun,’ Ranked

Don’t challenge me on the number of times I’ve watched that movie. I took some sort of easy-A computer class my senior year and we programmed the computer to play certain segments from the LaserDisc player, and the only movie we had was Top Gun. I think we only programmed it two or three times and spent all semester watching the movie during that class period. For you kids out there, a LaserDisc was basically a precursor to the DVD but was the size of a standard vinyl record.

A three-minute mashup of 50 songs from 1986. It’s good, not great, but made for a fun trip down memory lane.

I heard a citizen being interviewed boldly claim that the U.S. Constitution states we have inalienable rights. I bet that’s a common mistake amongst the American public. It’s in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

Here’s an interesting tidbit. The final version of the Declaration of Independence uses the word “unalienable”.  The quote as inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial also says “inalienable.” But the Declaration, as printed under the order of Congress, says “unalienable”. There’s no difference in meaning, both refer to rights that cannot be taken away or transferred.

Here’s a Deadspin article about sports leagues and the Coronavirus. The photo of baseball players in masks during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic got my attention, which encouraged me to see what else I could find. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had a football-related photo. Here are some nuggets from the Deadspin article.

My little bit of research led me to discover a few interesting tidbits. Babe Ruth got the Spanish flue twice, and even though the 1918 World Series was called the “The most joyless World Series ever”, Game 1 marked the first time “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played at a sporting event. As for hockey, this was engraved on the Stanley Cup, “1919 – Montreal Canadians – Seattle Metropolitans – Series Not Completed.” The series went to six games.

I also learned how Spain got stuck with that flu being named after them.

Spain was one of only a few major European countries to remain neutral during World War I. Unlike in the Allied and Central Powers nations, where wartime censors suppressed news of the flu to avoid affecting morale, the Spanish media was free to report on it in gory detail. News of the sickness first made headlines in Madrid in late-May 1918, and coverage only increased after the Spanish King Alfonso XIII came down with a nasty case a week later. Since nations undergoing a media blackout could only read in depth accounts from Spanish news sources, they naturally assumed that the country was the pandemic’s ground zero. The Spanish, meanwhile, believed the virus had spread to them from France, so they took to calling it the “French Flu.”

Texas Senator John Cornyn has voted to block, repeal or defund the Affordable Care Act around 20 times, but he suggested to those who will lose their employer-provided coverage to look for coverage using it. I get it, he never liked it, he doesn’t endorse it, but at least he’s presenting all options to available to his constituents. This doesn’t make him hypocritical in my opinion, and he still ain’t getting my vote for a plethora of other reasons.

The largest producer of surgical masks in the United States is located here in North Texas. One of their executives is expected to testify in Congress today about the importance of making such goods in the U.S. as a measure of national security.

To comply with social distancing guidelines, a three Michelin-starred luxury restaurant in northern Virginia will have 1940s-era mannequins occupying 50-percent of the tables, and And he has created custom-made masks bearing Marilyn Monroe smiles and George Washington chins.

I never knew this bit of U.S. history. I found this in an article about what would happen if the current president and vice-president caught COVID-19. It also quotes one person suggesting Pence pull a Dick Cheney and stay out of the White House as he did after the events of 9/11.

During Watergate, in the eight weeks between Spiro Agnew’s resignation and Gerald Ford’s confirmation, the vice presidency was vacant, putting Democrat House Speaker Carl Albert next in line for the White House. Albert vowed that if he were to ascend to the presidency, he would promptly appoint a Republican vice president and resign, rather than let his party appear to usurp power.

Not too long ago I made a series of posts relating to heads of state and shovels. Here’s another.

Camera records JFK badly injuring his back while planting tree during visit to Canada and wincing in pain, this week 1961: #PIP pic.twitter.com/VvUIMajXwj

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) May 13, 2020

Finally understood what zoom meetings remind me of. pic.twitter.com/Quca3up2mc

— Blossom Stefaniw (@BlossomStefaniw) May 12, 2020

I rolled my eyes the first time I ever heard the story and never fully believed it, even as a seven-year-old. This school does have a tradition of stretching the truth, remember their two national championships that never happened. But even if it’s false it’s just a part of their persona and all Texans have learned to accept them as they want to be accepted. Also, this just in, George Washington never really chopped down that cherry tree.

History of Texas A&M’s 12th Man challenged amid legal battle with school

An Alabama book publisher has upped the ante in his three-year legal dispute with Texas A&M by asking a judge to consider evidence he says will strike at the historical foundations of the Aggies’ cherished 12th Man tradition.

Mike Bynum of Birmingham, Ala., says that two 1921 newspaper stories his attorneys filed as part of a proposed motion in U.S. District Court in Houston will show that A&M has misstated the facts surrounding the role of Texas A&M football and basketball player E. King Gill in the Jan. 2, 1922, Dixie Classic football game in Dallas.

The 1922 game is famous in Aggies lore because Gill was summoned from the stands at Fair Park Stadium to join the undermanned A&M bench during a game against Centre College.

Some folks got Erykah Badu to agree to submit an audition video to become the next voice of Big Tex.

ANALYSIS: Netflix Saved Its Average User From 9.1 Days of Commercials in 2019

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