How long before an obituary records the number of Facebook “likes” a person received during their lifetime?

When you’re down on your luck

And you ain’t got a buck

In London, you’re a goner

They say you remain faithful to the music that was popular when you were in middle school for the rest of your life. When I was in middle school, popular music was …

For the past six days, the number of active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain has hovered around 3100.

Sick travelers game the system, putting everyone at risk, to be able to travel to Pakistan. This is what happens in a culture where “gaming the system” is socially acceptable.

American cultural embassies to the Middle East:

• KFC
• McDonald’s
• Dunkin Donuts
• Krispy Creme Donuts
• Burger King
• Dairy Queen

Any others?

Travel dreams.

When the CIA bugged the Ecuadorian embassy in London (howdey doodad?) they placed the bugs on the bottom of the fire extinguishers. The fire extinguishers were unlikely to be removed (except every few years) and were unlikely to be touched in the …

Close contact may not be close contact, and occasional contact may now be close contact.

I guess.

Howda hell diddy get dat?

Irresistible Force: Blaming the Russians, Cubans, Chinese

Immovable Object: Having to pay your employees' comp claims.

More: www.gq.com/story/cia…

Bulgarian chihuahua smugglers operating in Norway may mean the death of this innocent animal.

This is what the US has been fighting for in Afghanistan.

My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon.

(From Austin Powers)

Americans can’t extend French Schengen visas, but Chechen murderers get ten year French residency permits.

Something to think about.

Bad news for the US Fifth Fleet: Iran now has sea-launched drones. The Fifth Fleet is headquartered in Bahrain on the Arabian Gulf, facing Iran.

One way to make Scrivener easier would be to add Wizards for common tasks, like compile.

Back in the days of Wordperfect 5.1, I could set up a federal pleading simply by pressing alt+u. With a pleading Wizard, Scrivener could have the same …

The masked and the maskless both have strong opinions. That is why fistfights break out over masking, sometimes with tragic consequences. The maskless believe that the masked are fools; the masked feel threatened by the maskless. Social etiquette …

Machine Gun Kelly was Italian, not Irish, as his name would otherwise suggest.

The Causeway/border mystery has been resolved. The Causeway is open. But the reason why there has not been much cross-border traffic is because crossing is now expensive–to get into Bahrain, you need a Covid-19 test. The cost of testing in …

A devastating analysis of Jugaad, the Indian education system and gaming the system as a way of life:

pulkitsharma07.github.io/2020/10/0…

Ireland’s Covid-19 task force is now recommending a full, Stage 5 lock-down as cases increase to levels not seen since last April. Donegal, bordering on Northern Ireland, has been under Stage 3 restrictions.

The French will be forced to drink at home as the number of cases of the Sickness increases.

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to susceptibility to the Sickness. Fully 83% of Saudi citizens have “Vitamin D issues.”