Three Topics

 

 

 Gather around kids and let Uncle Alan discuss three topics because none of them can carry a blog post by itself.

Topic One:  The Lab Leak

Remember when our recent unpleasantness started?  There was a lot of talk about the origin of the virus.  The most popular view was the source was a “Wet Market” in Wuhan, China, that sold bats and pangolins.  

(I am a college graduate, plus I watched “Mutual Of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom as a kid and had never heard of pangolins until last year.)

The theory was this virus was from these animals and made an animal to human transfer.  To think otherwise made you a racist.

U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas (I’m pretty sure they have bats in Arkansas, not sure about the pangolins) offered up a theory that it came out of a lab the Chinese government had in Wuhan, that (talk about coincidence) work with viruses.

Cotton had two problems.

 
One, he was a Republican.  Two, he has a Southern accent.  (That I know they have in Arkansas).  Therefore, anything he said could not be correct, but it also had to be evil.

Our ever-diligent new media started saying that this is saying “the people of China” created Covid. This would cause the great unwashed (white Republican southerners) to do mean, ugly things to people with an Asian background.

Well, here we are sometime after, and our news media is saying, “Wait, you know that theory that Covid could have come from a lab leak?  Well, that may be true after all?  I mean, who would have thunk it?”

Even Dr. Fauci, hallowed be his name, has conceded Covid could have come from a lab leak.

I’m not sure why it took us so long to get here.  We’ll find out one of these days. Maybe.  Don’t count on it.

Topic Two:  Ellie Kemper

 

When I saw Ellie Kemper was trending on Twitter, I first said, “Who is Ellie Kemper?”  Then I remembered that she played Erin on “The Office,” and they kept trying to hook her up with that dreadful Ed Helms.

Twenty years ago, Kemper won a beauty contest held at an organization that had some uncomfortable history.  Somehow, and I was lost on how, Kemper was responsible for this history.  
 
One thing that was good about this story is that I learned more about Ellie Kemper.
 
Until last week, I thought Kemper was a cute All American girl type that was the ninth banana on a show that ended eight years ago.  To be fair to Kemper, she did star in a Netflix show, but I don’t know anybody who has seen it.

The important thing about Kemper is her last name: Kemper.  Her family is one of the wealthiest families in Missouri that doesn’t own a Clydesdale.  She graduated from Princeton and was a working actress in New York for years. Not precisely a breeding ground for Alt-Right sugar mamas.

Fortunately, the story petered out before it could ruin Kemper’s career.

Topic Three:  He’s BAAAACK

I thought Hillary Clinton was one of the worst losers I had ever seen in my life. But I have to hand it to Donald Trump. He makes Clinton look gracious.

Trump has spent a considerable amount of time fighting his loss to President Biden.  The problem is it is way too much, way too late.

I thought all of his big baby pouting ended on January 6, 2021, when his trousered apes attacked the Capitol.

Most people would have hidden in shame.  However, you don’t marry a super-model that is much younger than you and then carry on with a porn star if you are capable of shame.

This week brought news from Mar-a-Largo that Trump is telling people he expects to be “reinstated” as President in August.

How this happens, he hasn’t explained. There is no “do-over” clause in the Constitution. There is no “reinstatement" clause.

If you remember, back in March Trump was "supposed" to be "reinstated" as President. When it doesn't happen in August, I guess he'll announce he'll be reinstated for Christmas.
 
Since the election, there has been a lot of dumb stuff coming from Trump.    This is the dumbest.