I grew up with this album in the rotation nearly every Sunday, living in a rural area with nothing much on TV and having young, (and though I didn’t know it at the time), fairly hip parents. I guess Mary Travers and the others Mom and Dad played were kind of like family friends to me.
Currently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advice is to stay home for two days after fever symptoms subside, but researchers have found that the virus may still be in the nostrils of a infected person for a week or more and as long as 16 days after symptoms have abated.
The numbers in this article are absolutely astounding. It now costs more for family health insurance than it does to rent an average two-bedroom apartment? You’re making my head hurt. But that’s not a pre-existing condition, I swear!
NYT: “Jody Powell, the longest-serving and probably closest aide to former President Jimmy Carter, died on Monday at his home … said Jack Nelson, the journalist and his friend.” Powell’s wife said he had a heart attack.
I could have named my wife if I wanted to. Look at what Gov. Crist did in Florida — he put his chief of staff in there to hold the seat warm for him so he could run for the U.S. Senate. I didn’t do any of those things.
— former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), appearing on Fox News, comparing how he handled filling a Senate vacancy with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R).
During Glenn Beck’s anti-Obama 9/12 march in Washington, a lobbyist who organized the event took to the stage and flatly lied about the crowd size, saying it was about 25 times the D.C. Fire Department’s estimates.