dinsdag 4 augustus 2020

dinsdag 4 augustus 2020 Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda... BBC report: Americans in Africa: Why we left America to live in Africa. These people sound happy to be living in Africa, but each of these countries has issues. Income disparity. Human rights violations.  Government corruption. However, Africa could have a good future. On Democracy Now, award-winning journalist Katherine Eban is interviewed about her Vanity Fair article - How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”.

Everyone is talking about Trump's Interview With Axios's Jonathan Swan! Charlie Pierce calls it a Frost/Nixon mashed up with Spinal Tap.. Jonathan Swan called Trump out for fudging the statistics. This may be the most horrendous insight into Trump’s ineptness ever done! The interview was filmed on July 28 and aired Aug. 3 on HBO. An interesting article in Orion about this crazy COVID-19 thing: Why David Quammen Is Not Surprised. He was talking about zoonoses (zo·on·o·sis) years ago, and he warned us... a lot!

Happy Birthday to Chet Hanks (30). He played the abusive brother - Jimmy Grimm - for poor Ben Grimm in Fantastic 4.