Jesus, take the wheel. With one week left before election season ends — giving way to “half the country hating the other half just in time for holidays celebrating peace and family” — the bullshit swirling around the national elections has reached critical levels. If it gets to be too much, take a lesson from Paddy Chayefsky. Or, you know, Skink. Potato, po-tah-to, y’all.
Hordes of Facebook users checked in at Standing Rock Indian Reservation yesterday — from wherever they were. The reason? A viral post saying the Morton County Sheriff’s Department was geo-targeting people attending prayer camps. Snopes can’t prove it and the Sheriff’s Department is also calling bullshit, but hey, if it makes you feel like you’re taking action about the proposed pipeline while you’re stuck on traffic in your SUV, sure, why not?
A shot offering men a method of birth control won’t see the market anytime soon, despite working 96% of the time. The reason? It made the men moody. Oh, poor babies. We’re looking at a generation of women with osteoporosis from taking Depo-provera, but hey, we wouldn’t want our big strong men to get cranky, would we?
Finally, the Cross-Bay ferry starts today, with much support from people who will probably never use it. Until Friday, though, you have to be a VIP to ride. That includes members of local museums, who received invites to one of the VIP crossing but, when they responded, found the voyages already full. So, you know, it’s off to a great start.
This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 3, 2016.
