Voting is live for the next class inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (like is to the Rock Hall website, there's a link to voting there, which is being handled by Google). You can vote once everyday.
"This year's Orionid meteor shower will be at its best and brightest tonight (October 21-22) as the celestial phenomena lights up the skies of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres."
"The City Council of New York voted 36-13 Thursday to approve a plan to close the city's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island by 2026 in favor of four smaller jails spread out across the city." Six more years.
"A retired Philadelphia businessman offered to help Cherry Hill solve its school-lunch debt problem, but the school district said it will not accept donations to wipe out thousands of dollars in unpaid meal fees." Fuckers. (Grokked from Kelly Link)
"Now, WakeMed's partner in this endeavor, UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward, has won federal approval to expand its drone delivery operations, allowing the company to use multiple aircraft in multiple locations to make revenue-generating deliveries over longer distances… Ginn says that will allow WakeMed to bypass the traffic congestion of area roads and fly drones with tissue and blood samples or urgent medical supplies quickly between its other health care facilities in the region." I guess the pneumatic tubes were busy or something. I wonder what they'll do when the weather isn't good for flying? But the technology is just around the corner… just like human-level AI and self-driving vehicles.
Trump spoils everything. "On Oct. 18, NASA’s Christina Koch and Jessica Meir teamed up on an historic walk, performing maintenance work on the International Space Station… As might be expected, the two were congratulated over the phone by the president of the United States. But the president, awkwardly, mischaracterized their achievement."
"Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, confirmed late Sunday that he is behind an anonymous Twitter account under the pseudonym 'Pierre Delecto' that he's used to be a 'lurker' on social media for most of the past decade." The almost Lurker-in-Chief.
"Four defendants have reached a tentative settlement in a landmark opioid trial in Ohio. News of the last-minute deal emerged just hours before the first federal trial on liability for the opioid crisis was set to begin Monday morning." It's still a paltry sum. But this shows how deferred costs are easy to mistake for lack of liability. The drug companies have been relying on the public dole to sort out the problem they helped create (and in some cases, directly created) and now they're trying to get off on the cheap. All the money spent on care, narcan, healthcare emergencies, treatment, incarceration, taking care of addicts' children and families, all of that falls on the government as costs. The drug companies shave shifted the downstream costs of their product to the public. And the few billion they've offered as compensation is significantly lower than how much of your tax money has been spent to deal with this drug crisis (it's also strange in this case to have someone you can take to court to recoup).
How goes Brexit? "The British Parliament delayed a vote on a Brexit deal by three months Saturday, another defeat for Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid what had appeared to have been a breakthrough in negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom."
"Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hoping British lawmakers on Monday will vote on and pass a Brexit withdrawal agreement he negotiated with the European Union after a weekend vote was sabotaged by opposition and rebel parliamentarians."
How go the Trade Wars? "The U.S. ambassador to China is pushing back against Beijing's criticism of a new State Department requirement that Chinese diplomats must report certain meetings they have in the U.S." Silly president. That's what you have an FBI for.
"In Canada, campaigning for Monday's election is going down to the wire with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fighting the battle of his political life." Our sexy-northern boyfriend is in a spot of trouble.
"The United States is on track to record another year with a 'historically high' number of anti-Semitic incidents, the Anti-Defamation League said Sunday."
"US President Donald Trump reversed his decision to host the G7 resort at his private golf club after being told that Republicans objected to the idea, an administration official told The Washington Post." And then blamed the Democrats and Media, when in actually it was because Republicans told him they couldn't support the decision.
"Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump’s decision to move U.S. troops out of northeastern Syria, said on Sunday he now believed 'historic solutions' were possible." Ah, another concerned conservative Senator finds a way to overcome his concerns and love Big Brother.
"Hundreds of trucks carrying American troops have crossed into Iraq in a long military convoy Monday, marking the largest withdrawal of US forces from Syria to date." Not created as heroes so much and they're not "coming home" as promised.
"Since Mulvaney made the stunning admission on Thursday, he has been walking the remarks back and assigning responsibility to the media, insisting that his words have been misconstrued." Dude, seriously, there's fucking video. You were getting frustrated because the press was asking (somewhat real) questions and not soft-balling it (as you expected Chris Wallace to do). And you forgot to lie. It's easy to forget one when you have to maintain a mountain of lies. Then you told us to "get over it." How's that tough-guy stance working out for you, fucker.
"Mulvaney fumbled during an interview on 'Fox News Sunday' when he cited two reasons for the delay, whereas he had listed three during his Thursday news briefing at the White House. He continued to blame reporters for any misunderstanding, a feat that can be tough to pull off when his answers were all delivered on camera and when the host, Chris Wallace, let the tape keep rolling… 'At the end of the day, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business,' Mulvaney told Wallace about Trump’s original decision to hold the next G-7 summit at his resort in Doral, Fla. — a decision he reversed late Saturday." Micky's very bad, no-good day just continued through the weekend.
"The Justice Department now says that official, Brian Benczkowski, and other fraud prosecutors at Justice headquarters wouldn't have taken that meeting with Giuliani earlier this summer had they known about a Manhattan US attorney probe of two Giuliani associates who were indicted this month. It is striking that the Justice Department is having to distance itself from the President's own personal attorney." Giuliani? Never heard of him.
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