JonBenét

Today is the day for attainment of realization of non-appearance, for with it attain affirmation. It is the 360th day of 2001 and we only have 5 more of these sumbitches left to get through.

It's Carlton Fisk's birthday!  Former Red Sox catcher Pudge turns 74 today.

On this day in 1996, child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was murdered. Impermanence is swift. Her death remains an unsolved mystery.

Three college football post-season bowl games have been cancelled so far due to the omicron covid variant, and more are sure to follow.  The United States is now averaging over 200,000 new covid cases per day, a level not seen since the January 2021 peak last winter.  As the current rate shows no sign of abating, we will almost assuredly pass the 250,512 record set on January 12.  The only "good news" is that despite the caseloads, hospitalizations and deaths are only about half of what they were last winter.  Still, many hospitals are reporting that that are overloaded and past capacity.

Russian troops are still massed along the Ukraine border.  The Republican party, almost to a man, are resisting any attempt at inquiry into what happened on January 6, 2021.  And state legislatures are still quietly rigging election boards so as not to be accountable to the popular vote.

These are dangerous times.