Nearly 6,000 Americans have died TODAY.

And almost 612,000 cases in total in our country.

It looks like we will have over 500,000 cases and 20,000 deaths by Monday.

"Let's open everything up by Easter", he said.

What a complete idiot! But we knew that already, right? Trump wishes everybody a HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY!

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/you-cant-even-get-christianity-right-trump-mocked-for-offensive-happy-good-friday-wishes-exposing-his-ignorance/

Read through some of the twitter responses. Very funny.

This is a must-watch segment from Jake this morning. Wish Donnie was watching, but he's out on the links.

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/04/jake-tapper-pleads-donald-trump-what-plan

A friend of mine sent me this -

7 am Breakfast
7:15 Dessert Breakfast
8:30 Panic Snack with the news
9:45 Chocolate
11:30 Snack while standing up staring at nothing
12:30 lunch with a small dessert
2:00 Post nap Luncheon
4:30 Trail Mix
6:00 Dinner with weird vibes
10:00 Ice Cream

To which I added:

Mimosas
Late Morning Pint of Ale
Whiskey Sour before Lunch
Chardonnay with lunch
Late afternoon Sherry
Bourbon high ball before Dinner
Merlot with dinner
Cognac after Dinner
Milk Punch before bed

Saw it in Raw Story:

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/mad-king-trump-angers-the-gods/

Mad King Donald, indeed.

Thanks Thom for another enlightening bit of reading.

The life blood of Ashland, OSF, has decided to cancel all performances until April 8. This will have a massive impact on our city. Local businesses will possibly close. Two years ago, we lost a lot of businesses because of terrible wildfire smoke. There's no telling what this may do. Our local school district has also closed for a while.

No panic in the stores - yet. Plenty of toilet paper available

in the Senate. It was 54-45. Three Dems voted Yes: Manchin, Synema, and Jones. One R voted No: Paul

Jones's comment was: He is qualified and will remain independent.

WRONG!! I wonder what Senator Jones thinks now.

Edited to add:
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/william-barr-senate-confirmation-vote-count/

And lived to tell the tale! I just returned home from a wild 27 hour journey to San Francisco and back (14 hours of driving total) in order to attend Rachel Maddow's book release event at the City Arts & Lectures theater. The ticket included a copy of the book Blowout and I am excited to read it. The event was completely sold out on the night she announced it. I was very lucky to buy my tickets immediately so I only had to pay $59. The guys sitting behind me paid $400 each!

Anyway, she spoke for a few minutes and then read an exerpt from the book. The crowd was enthusiastic (massive understatement!) and then she was interviewed by Dan Pfeiffer (President Obama's Communications Director). It was all so funny and fabulous - like having my own personal Rachel Maddow Show without any commercials. It was ALL A-block! And she left us (as she always does) laughing, better educated, and hopeful.

The audio of the event will be posted on the City Arts & Lectures podcast at some point in the near future, and it will be offered on KQED 88.5 FM soon. The website is cityarts.net. I will post again when I see that it is available. Be sure to listen!

He had surgery three weeks ago to remove his spleen. Turns out it was cancerous. He started going down hill this morning and we knew there was nothing more we could do.

He was a beautiful, smart, sweet German Shepherd Dog and we loved him immensely. If I knew how to post a photograph of him (neither click-and-drag, nor copy-paste works), I would.

Our fur babies help to make the world a kinder place. If you are fortunate to have one in your life, please give it a hug from me because I can't do that at my house any more.