I do expect that I will have to call it off tomorrow evening with the snow or maybe not – it could be pretty. Maybe do the evening walk early. I do plan on the morning walk – it will be frigid but I’ll bundle up.
12/14/20 by FiveThirtyEight, 538, ABC News, Nate Silver
Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/116542203
Episode: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/ESP9326256356.mp3
The two biggest stories of 2020 in the U.S. — the pandemic and the election — are finding some closure today, though each is really just entering its next phase. The conflicts and challenges presented by both the pandemic and President Trump’s attempts to overturn the election are not over.
It is fascinating how much of 2020’s loose ends kind of came to a rapid closure in some ways on Monday. Always a great podcast.
Every day, Vermonters dutifully return glass bottles to redemption centers or put them into blue recycling bins with the idea they may be turned into brand new bottles.
But in reality, only a fraction of recycled bottles will have a second act, appearing on a store shelf containing beer or soda.
There is little market for the glass, experts say, and local solid waste districts are stuck with trying to get rid of a product that citizens are required to recycle so it’s not buried in a landfill.
I am reading the Firefox Book 1 🐮 that I downloaded 👇 from that sketchy militia website 🔫 in my frigid apartment ❄ with the lights dimmed to save energy while listening 👂🏻 to an old 1960s Seaburg background music 🎶 like they used to play in old department stores and office buildings covered with sheet marble 👓 that I downloaded from the YouTube.
Back in the 70's, when I was in High School and read my first Castaneda book, I was also reading the "Foxfire" books on survival, as it was the hip thing to do if you were an aspiring teenage backpacker in the mid 70s. There is something in those books in the way of attitude, which I would identify as the "warrior's way." It seemed to mesh very well with understanding Don Juan. I think the coincidence of reading these books at the same time as Castaneda's, made me approach it in a more sober fashion somehow, it was definitely a bit of luck, so that is why I'm including a link to them here. (The Foxfire books don't have anything to do with this militia site the PDF's are on, and I'm not sure if it is legit for them to be putting them online, so I would just download them all while you still can.)
Moderna, a Massachusetts-based vaccine developer, partnered with the National Institutes of Health to develop and test a coronavirus vaccine known as mRNA-1273. A clinical trial demonstrated that the vaccine has an efficacy rate of 94.1 percent in preventing Covid-19.
harlene Wood was driving home at 5 p.m. on December 15, 1967, when she felt Silver Bridge shake. The bridge, built in 1928, spanned the Ohio River between Ohio and West Virginia, and served 4,000 vehicles every day. On this cold Friday, a single eyebar — a 55-foot-long section of steel, two inches thick and 12 inches wide — had suddenly fractured. Then the pin holding it in place fell loose, sending the bridge’s components into catastrophic failure. “It was like someone had lined up dominoes,” Wood recalled. “I could see car lights flashing as they were tumbling into the water. The car in front of me went in. Then there was silence.”