Monday, July 19, 2021

And another day of proposals, sentences, breakthrough infections, Fox vaccine passports, the DOW dropping, ‘too short’ shorts for Paralympian, the vastness of the US West, and modern porn education is totally unprepared for modern porn comes to a close:

“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” -- Leo Buscaglia

Deaths

US: 624,983 (+237)

World: 4,112,792 (+7049)

Cases

US: 35,018,600 (+54,693)

World: 191,712,967 (+494,856)

McCarthy proposes 5 Republicans to sit on Jan. 6 panel. McCarthy said Monday that he has selected Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who recently visited former President Donald Trump on trips to the U.S.-Mexico border and Trump’s New Jersey golf club, to be the top Republican on the panel. The Republican leader also tapped Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis, North Dakota Rep. Kelly Armstrong and Texas Rep. Troy Nehls to serve on the committee.

Florida man gets 8 months in prison in 1st felony sentence from Capitol riot. Hodgkins is the third person to be sentenced for being part of the Capitol siege, and his is the longest punishment imposed so far.

Number of Texas state Democrats to test positive for COVID-19 rises to 5.

Covid-19 breakthrough infections are preventable, but it's going to take a big effort to stop them.

Fox has quietly implemented its own version of a vaccine passport while its top personalities attack them. The concept, which was first reported Monday by Ryan Grim on The Hill's morning streaming show, is known internally as "FOX Clear Pass." While the "Fox Clear Pass" is voluntary for employees, and other companies have similar tools, it is still remarkable, given how vocal Fox's top talent has been in criticizing the concept of vaccine passports. Fox News has spent months portraying the notion that people might be asked to show vaccination status as dangerous to personal freedom and anti-American. -- Please stop watching Fox News. They are literally trying to kill you. And oh yeah. They’re using the term “talent” there pretty loosely.

Canada will finally open its borders, first to Americans, beginning August 9.

Dow suffers biggest drop of the year as Delta variant fears hit Wall Street hard. This was the worst day for the Dow since a 943-point drop in late October, and it was the biggest decline this year. But the blue chip market barometer has had several even bigger point plunges since the start of 2020 due to concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic.

Modern Porn Education Is Totally Unprepared for Modern Porn. Courses to train young people to be ethical consumers of porn have a hugely complex task ahead of them. If parents imagine that they have nothing more to worry about than their teenagers coming across explicit material—or a too-liberal curriculum aimed at helping them process the stuff—then they’ve hugely underestimated the task before them. Ideally, any web user in regular contact with explicit content could have some sense of what to do when met with material that ought to be brought to the attention of authorities. But that would require much more guidance than adolescents—let alone adults—are given now. After all, distinguishing between images or videos carefully tailored to appear genuine and those that indeed are is a hard task even for the law-enforcement agents trained in investigating these kinds of sex crimes.

CNN announces CNN+, 'most important launch for network since Ted Turner'. The new venture, called CNN+, was formally announced on Monday morning. It will exist side by side with CNN's existing television networks and will feature eight to twelve hours of live programming a day.

Paralympian Olivia Breen angered after official said her sprint shorts were 'too short'. Double Paralympic world champion Olivia Breen says she was left "speechless" after an official at the English Championships told her that her sprint briefs were "too short and inappropriate."

Size of Oregon wildfire underscores vastness of the US West. The monstrous wildfire burning in Oregon has grown to a third the size of Rhode Island and spreads miles each day, but evacuations and property losses have been minimal compared with much smaller blazes in densely populated areas of California.

The harrowing new reality for Alzheimer’s patients. Alzheimer’s patients and families live in a cloud of uncertainty. It’s about to get worse.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.