It’s Wednesday. Wow. Anti-maskers stormed a mall and grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday confronting shoppers and employees that were wearing masks. These protesters claim that Covid-19 is a hoax and that it’s their right not to wear a mask. When I see people like this I wish that my girlfriend (a nurse) could walk each one of them through the ICU at her hospital, or really any hospital, to show them the people dying from Covid-19. Introduce them to the overworked doctors, nurses, and techs risking their own lives and the lives of their families to treat the infected. Allow the anti-maskers to speak with patients recovering from Covid-19 and get their thoughts on what they just went through. It’s all there.

And if that doesn’t open the mind of an anti-masker, well then you know what they say about stupid… you can’t fix it.

-keep

It’s Tuesday. We have our first beaver sighting for 2021! This one comes from Jon, a reader in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. Apparently the good folks up there in the Dairy State appreciate a bit of a creamy kick in their Beaver Brand horseradish sauce. And really, when it comes down to it, who doesn’t!

-keep

Keep, Happy New Year and thanks for all you do, I start every single morning on this site since I found it about 3 years ago. After the shitshow that 2020 was I thought we could all use a little positive, I went to work New Years Day morning half asleep opened up the meat case door to check dates and BAM! There is was the first beaver sighting of 2021 in the wild and a long way from home at 6:00 in the morning, now I face that shelf every morning and that was not there yesterday, that’s gotta be a sign that this year will be better than the last right? And of course I had to take it home and try it and let me tell you it will put some lead in your pencil. -Jon from Three Lakes Wisconsin

It’s Monday. Uggg. As I predicted the Bears got their asses reamed by the Packers again on Sunday. They started out strong but by the beginning of the second half of the game everything quickly fell apart. It was another embarrassing loss of 35-16. And even though they don’t deserve it, they still made the playoffs because the Los Angeles Rams beat the Arizona Cardinals. The Bears will take on the Saints in the first round of the postseason.

The girlfriend and I spent part of the weekend gathering up the Christmas decorations and packing them away. I took this photo of all the car ornaments after taking them off of the tree. The collection increases every year and now totals around 30 ornaments with the latest being Cousin Eddie’s RV from Christmas Vacation. It’s sad to pack ’em all up but they’ll be back next December.

Saw the news that our idiot of a president was caught on a recording threatening Secretary Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in a one-hour phone call Saturday.

The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.” and “There’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated,” said Trump.

How is this not illegal?

-keep