The Week In Pictures
May 23, 2020 — Steven Hayward
You can almost feel it: more and more Americans are saying “nuts!” to the shutdown, and the politicians are starting to “adjust” their reopening schedules, supposedly linked to “new information,” but the relevant new information is that civil disobedience is spreading. Meanwhile: Slow Joe keeps handing out gifts seven months before Christmas. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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May 20, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Today is Wednesday. Maybe. I think. If I have counted right, this is a Week 10 of the [temporary] Midweek in Pictures special series. This has not become a mere berm to overcome, but a metastasizing hump. Harumph, harumph. I can’t use it. And finally . . . something to confound the “trigger discipline” crowd:
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May 16, 2020 — Steven Hayward
When does a quarantine lockdown become a government-imposed lockout for American business? Who could have imagined a time when a “job action” would come to mean going to work? And yet here we are. But millions are dying!, says Slow Joe Biden. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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May 13, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Is it actually Wednesday? I’m not fully sure. The days blend together such that it seems almost like we’ve been transported into that bizarre French Revolution calendar where every week has 10 days or something. I do notice that toilet paper is finally returning to stores in abundance, so much so that I’m thinking of buying a case and TP-ing Gavin Newsom’s house. Who’s in? And finally. . .
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May 9, 2020 — Steven Hayward
The “Flynn Effect” refers to the gradual increase in IQ scores over the decades, but you don’t need an IQ much above room temperature to recognize by now that the whole Trump-Russia-Collusion obsession was in fact a political hit job from the beginning. The floor is open for nominations of what effects should be applied or discerned from Comey, Brennan, and Clapper. Meanwhile, just keep Biden your time during martial
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May 6, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Giant murder hornets? As Joe Biden might say, c’mon man! Meanwhile, this, from The Week cheers my heart: “California highway police say that while overall traffic levels are down 35 percent this year because of a stay-at-home order, the number of speeding tickets for driving more than 100 mph has increased by 87 percent, with one motorist caught doing 165 mph. Commissioner Warren Stanley warned that higher speeds can ‘significantly
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May 2, 2020 — Steven Hayward
My hunch about Kim Jong Un is that he’s hiding out in a remote, undisclosed location to avoid contracting the coronavirus, but can’t dare show his face without provoking a backlash among the rest of the Nork elite along whom the virus is rumored to be running rampant. Better to cultivate uncertainty and confusion. Meanwhile, Joe Biden came out of hiding, tan, rested, and ready. Um. . . Headlines of
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April 29, 2020 — Steven Hayward
I truly did lose track of what day it is. It know it is a day that ends in “-day” but that’s no excuse. The surprise of the day is that the economy “only” fell at a 4.8% rate in the first quarter, which is way less than I was expecting (and in any case the economic hit didn’t start to come until late in the quarter), but the reason
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April 25, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Edna St. Vincent-Millay is reported to have once said that “History isn’t one damn thing after another—it’s the same damn thing over and over again.” That certainly describes the day-to-day news cycle right now, and the challenge of doing the weekly picture gallery. Have you heard? There’s a pandemic! And Orange Man Bad. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like the pandemic of predatory politicians and the mindless media is going away
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April 24, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Okay, so this is not quite a full Week in Pictures special edition, though the circumstances very nearly warrant it. As you may have heard amidst the unremitting din of coronavirus news, the Land ‘O Lakes butter people have removed the native American woman who has adorned their packaging for decades. Yes, insert “Elizabeth Warren hardest hit” jokes here. Below, behold my newest sacred relic—one of the last of the
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April 22, 2020 — Steven Hayward
So this marks the sixth week in a row of a special midweek edition of Week in Pictures, which our operating guidelines say is only supposed to happen on weeks with extraordinary news events, etc. But as the lockdown has become the new normal, we’ll just have to see if we can keep this up. For now, meme-generation, along with stocking Nancy Pelosi’s ice cream supply, seem to be the
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April 18, 2020 — Steven Hayward
The Biden campaign has committed one of the biggest blunders since Michael Dukakis rode in that tank. No, I don’t mean running with dementia in the first place: rather it is the “Team Joe” avatar where you can upload your own photo and slogan for the campaign. People are having lots of fun with this. We’re only including a few here. I am sure someone—maybe even Joe in his few
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April 15, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Mid-week, schmidweek, I can’t tell Sunday from Wednesday right now, so at this point it really doesn’t matter if it’s Saturday or whenever. Though as it happens today we are halfway between Western Easter and Eastern Orthodox Easter, so this is a suitable time to get in a few Easter-related memes and such that we didn’t have on hand last Saturday. And oh yeah, somebody named Barack O’Bernie or something
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April 11, 2020 — Steven Hayward
At some point, and one hopes it is soon, we’ll need to make the transition from mega-hunkering to MAGA-hunkering. In the memetime, the only two segments of the economy that are clearly thriving are alcohol sales, and meme-making. I suspect the two are related. Just a hunch. I could be wrong. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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April 8, 2020 — Steven Hayward
I’m wondering where we are on the Churchill scale: with some indications that the curve is in fact bending down, are we now at the beginning of the end [of quarantine shutdown], or the end of the beginning? Well, either way, several more weeks of MWiP is near certain. And finally. . .
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April 4, 2020 — Steven Hayward
April is going to seem even longer than March. How do I know? Simple: SiriusXM satellite radio has added the Billy Joel Channel back into rotation. Maybe someone—Al Yankovic perhaps—can offer some modifications, such as “We Didn’t Start the Fire—China Did!” Or “The Great Suburban Showdown in the Paper Products Aisle.” Or, “Joe Biden Is Proof That Only the Good Die Young.” And for Congress, “Last of the Big Time
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April 1, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Well thank God March is finally over. It only lasted longer than the Thirty Years War. And now April, T.S. Eliot’s “cruelest month,” which will likely seem longer than the Hundred Years War. Where is our Marlborough, who led the War of the Spanish Succession? A Marlborough is obviously what we need for the War of the Spanish Flu Succession. (Thanks, I’ll be here all month. Try the roast beef.)
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