25 March 2020: Daily Humor

What this woman is NOT. Hilarious! (Thank you, Dulsi).

A fine joke, courtesy of my MIL:

Plane with 5 passengers on board: Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, The Pope and a ten-year-old boy. The plane is about to crash, and there are only 4 parachutes.

Trump says “I need one. I’m the smartest man in the USA and am needed to sort out the problems of the World!’ He takes one and jumps.

Boris says “I’m needed to sort out Britain.” He takes one and jumps.

The Pope says “I need one as the world needs the Catholic Church.” He takes one and jumps.

Angela says to the ten-year-old: "You can have the last parachute. I've lived my life, yours is only just starting."

The 10-year-old replied: "Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left. The smartest man in the USA took my school bag."

thank you, Anne!

24 March 2020: Daily Humor, not much of it

Friends, while today was not bad, I don’t have much in the way of humor for you. People are dying alone, giving birth alone, being buried largely alone, feeling alone. Two friends and I had virtual quarantinis tonight, and that was grand. While I gardened earlier, I caught up with many lovely neighbors. One is borrowing a sewing machine from another to make masks for local hospitals. My squash seeds are up, all this rain promises life and growth.

And yet, our federal leadership is an offensive joke, and I am disgusted and enraged. Citizens sewing masks? Lovely but not something that should be needed. States closing schools for the rest of this school year? If we had enough tests, that probably wouldn’t be necessary.

Then Tom and I watched Bombshell, and I am telling you that Roger Ailes can die again for all I care, and Bill O’Reilly should be miserable for life. My god, am I sick of grotesque men. WTF did Harvey Weinstein get a Covid-19 test? How did he even get it? I suspect this is some wealthy-man’s plot to stay out of the showers at Rikers.

So, all I have for you are the following. The first is totally amusing; the second is just nasty-true.

Ben Wittes of Lawfare does cabin fever. If you don’t read his and Susan Hennessey’s Lawfare blog, you should.

the tiny hands!

23 March 2020: Daily Humor

God, y’all, what day is it? I mean seriously. Midday today, I was like is it a weekend day or not? What time is it? Does it matter?

I am happy that y’all enjoyed the Freddie creature (ground hog? hamster?) and are also praying that RBG is in some sort of germ-free isolation cell in which she is both happy and safe.

Today I have a few gems for you, the star of which is, I believe, these Italian mayors beseeching their citizens, in a terrifically Italian way, to stay the eff inside. Yes, the subtitles are accurate. Listen with the sound on. There is little better than peeved-out, gesticulating Italians.

Also delightful includes the reemergence of the Piglet-Pooh walk and also what things may come to regarding hair cuts.

thank you, diara.

thank you, sj.