now that i have a kid…
…everything is scarier, more urgent. Like this swine flu epidemic. I’m really nervous about this, especially living in Arizona. Roque – keep healthy down in Mexico, man…. (you are in Mexico, right?)
by Erik Kain · April 27, 2009
…everything is scarier, more urgent. Like this swine flu epidemic. I’m really nervous about this, especially living in Arizona. Roque – keep healthy down in Mexico, man…. (you are in Mexico, right?)
Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
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From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
(Featured image is "Free Bird" by Ennev and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Comment →From DFW's CBS:
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas has reversed a previous ruling of the Court that had dismissed all claims against the City of Dallas in the murder of Botham Jean.
The federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Dallas is now allowed to proceed once an amended lawsuit is filed.
We discussed Amber Guyger getting indicted here.
We discussed her trial here.
(Featured image is Botham Jean from The Botham Jean Foundation/Facebook)
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Hey, ED Kain, Thanks for the shout-out! I appreciate it a lot. (Yes, I do live in Mexico. Come down here anytime and you’ve got the nation’s number one guide at your service for free. I can guide tours on any topic you desire, from the literary/arts scene, to history and culture, to the immigration and drug war “problems” from the other side of the fence, to tequila drinking, etc. I’ve even done tours on irrigation systems.)
Today, I’m healthy. Tomorrow, who knows?
I know what you mean about how your kids put the fear into you. In your case, it’s just the beginning. Sorry to have to break it to you like this. For example, one of my daughters is pregnant with her first child. Now I have to worry about her, plus the glob of cells in her belly that she calls her child, plus my son-in-law. Having kids is exponential worry. It’s no joke, either. I’m writing this in the hope that someone will read it and decide that they’re not up to it and decline to reproduce.
For what it’s worth, I remember the first swine flu scare so this just seems kinda silly to me by now. Would Marx’s tragedy/farce dictum fit here?Report
My son just got through a nasty bout of pneumonia which required surgery to clear a bunch of nasty thick fluid around his right lung (which basically collapsed it).
He’s recovering very well but with the swine flu scare, we are going to have to keep him out of school for the rest of the school year and he won’t be going back to daycare anytime soon (even if it’s only next door and the woman does a wonderful job keeping sick kids from staying there).Report