John Oliver is back:
Anyway, it’s another day that ends in y.
Take care and stay safe.
Midweek Cafe and Lounge, Vol. 160
About The Author
Don Durito
Left of center and lover of photography, music, pop culture, and life. Favorite quote - "There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility" (Lisbeth Salander, from Stieg Larsson's original Millennium Trilogy).
John Oliver’s pop culture references are fun. And yeah, it’s now about testing, testing, testing. About 500k tests per day is apparently the minimal needed to maybe be able to effectively track, trace, and isolate. We’re at about half of that minimum threshold. That’s hardly impressive. I know someone who probably should have been tested at the ER last week who did not get one. Got a non-covid diagnosis and sent home. Thankfully seems to be recovering. But still. C’mon.
A conversation with Yanis Varoufakis:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/there-is-a-glimmer-of-hope-economists-on-coronavirus-and-capitalism
Still trying to spot me or my friends in this 1988 footage.
I find it amazing that we lived probably within at most an hour’s drive from each other back then. My vibe was a bit different at the time, but I wouldn’t have turned down a chance to see the Dead live. Heard too many bootlegs on an KTLA back in the day. My comfort zone was mosh pits, industrial noise, etc. The sheer talent of that band was too much to deny. A former coworker at a call center I worked at in the late 1980s got herself sober and started going back to Dead gigs, and said she got so much more out of them than before she detoxed.
Chances are if we had met back then, I would have come across as a bit much leftier-than-thou. Hung out w/too many anarchopunks. But if we had given each other a chance, you’d have sussed out that I had ancestral Democratic roots, and no matter what was secretly rooting for the Dems to keep the GOP at bay all throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The reforms I wanted then and now were never possible otherwise. So yeah…Mondale, Dukakis (I might still have an old sign), Clinton (twice), Gore, Kerry, Obama, and HRC. Already cool w/Biden.