November 8, 2020

Now, this "Trump Train" they keep talking about...

Can it be the Crescent, which runs from Washington Union Station to Atlanta, the closest Amtrak station to the first federal penitentiary Al Capone was locked up in? (No one got sent to Alcatraz as their first prison. That was for people who screwed up once they went inside. In Capone's case, the feds got wind of an escape plot and solved the problem by sending him to a prison you can't escape from.)

November 7, 2020

Post your prediction: How long will it take Twitter to delete Trump's account?

I'm going with January 22.

November 3, 2020

Swing state voters receiving "stay home and stay safe" robocalls

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/listen-voters-in-at-least-6-swing-states-are-receiving-robocalls-designed-to-spread-election-misinformation/?utm_source=push_notifications

November 3, 2020

I just got a nice email from Nordstrom

They are closing their stores nationwide at 5 pm today to be sure all their employees have time to vote.

November 2, 2020

Kyle Rittenhouse's bond set: $2 million cash

https://www.wisn.com/article/bail-for-kyle-rittenhouse-set-at-dollar2m/34553199?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Bond%20for%20Kyle%20Rittenhouse%20set%20at%20%242M%20cash&utm_term=wisn_news_local_breaking#

October 31, 2020

Jason Mraz asks you to vote for Joe Biden

Lovely remake of his song "I'm Yours."

October 26, 2020

Quick logistical question

Do we have an alternate communications channel for Election Day if DU gets knocked off the air this year like happened in 2016?

October 24, 2020

Idaho health board "drowning in complaints" after mask mandate lifted

https://cdapress.com/news/2020/oct/24/PANHANDLECALLS/

The team at Panhandle Health District is drowning in complaints after its board voted Thursday to end Kootenai County’s mask mandate.

Katherine Hoyer, PHD spokeswoman, said district employees and staff received scores of calls after the board’s decision to rescind the mandate, which had been in place since late July.

The Panhandle Health Board of Directors voted 4-3 to rescind its mask mandate for Kootenai County. Board members Allen Banks, Glen Bailey, Mike Fitzgerald and Walt Kirby voted to end the mask mandate.

The health district has a call center set up to field inquiries about public health concerns, but the center’s employees are also handling irate and agitated residents criticizing the board’s decision.

(Necessary disclosure: I work for this newspaper but didn't write the story linked.)

Yesterday I was driving home from Seattle to Coeur d'Alene through a snowstorm after a week's vacation and called my managing editor using my hands-free phone system to find out if it was snowing there. It was. Then he produced the words you never want to hear from a newspaperman: "You are not going to believe this." He is NOT happy about this.

For my part, I've decided to stop shopping in Idaho until the pandemic ends. I can drive 30 miles to a state with a slight bit of common sense and buy everything I need...which, right now, means food and tile supplies.

October 23, 2020

I made it about 10 minutes into the debate

I saw a graceful, well-prepared man who is respectful and presidential in his demeanor.

And that man wasn’t the sitting president. Trump came off as an absolute lunatic.

October 22, 2020

I think I know how Trump will cause chaos if he loses

He's already suggested that he, rather than the governors, will be the one to "open up the states."

I believe it is very possible that Trump will issue an EO after he loses that opens the whole country and outlaws mandatory mask orders. He can't actually do such a thing - we do still have a 10th Amendment - but who the hell is going to stop him?