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Remember When Re-Opening Was A Thing? Get Ready For Re-Closing

You probably saw that picture before; it's me, in early March when one of my neighbors, a SNL star thought I looked so funny that he had to photograph me. I started wearing that outfit in February to the GREAT discomfort of employees and fellow shoppers in the grocery stores where I was going to buy enough root vegetables, paper goods and dried fruits, legumes, nuts and grains to last until after a major holocaust.

Mainstream Republicans Are Starting To Desert The Trump Death Cult-- At Least When It Comes To Their Psychotic War Against Mask-Wearing

Ugly Nazi/GOP propaganda in Kansas-- July, 2020The coronavirus pandemic has been no walk in the park for Kansas-- but it has been worse for all of Kansas' immediate neighbors. As of Saturday, 283 Kansans have died of COVID-19. That's 97 deaths per million residents of the state. Their four neighbors, though, fared worse:

Another GOP Crackpot, An Ohio State Rep., Refuses To Wear A Mask-- Gets Bounced From Gettysburg Museum

Candice Keller won a seat in the Ohio state House in 2016 to represent an overwhelmingly Republican 89% white district in Butler County (Hamilton, Middletown, Monroe, Oxford and Trenton) north of Cincinnati. The PVI is R+10. Keller is a garden variety right-wing Republican-- an anti-Choice and anti-LGBTQ fanatic and gun nut who denigrates the role of government. On April 28, she was defeated in the Republican primary by state Rep.

You Think Only Republican Governors Are Bad At Pandemics? Meet Gavin Newsom (Coward-CA)

I can't say Gavin Newsom's mishandling of the pandemic has changed my mind about him. I recognized him as a soulless political ghoul the first time I met him in 2010. He called the L.A. politics bloggers together for a getting-to-know-me session at a sleek Hollywood hotel when he first ran for governor against Jerry Brown. He was well-prepared and smart and everyone in the room loved him but one-- me.