Michael Flynn's "vaccine in the salad dressing" alarmism certainly is interesting.

Ben Garrison, a right-wing cartoonist known for his opposition to vaccines and his extremely flattering drawings of former President Donald Trump, told Gizmodo late Sunday that he contracted covid-19 and has been sick for about two weeks. But allegedly getting covid hasn’t changed Garrison’s mind about modern medical science. Garrison, who lives in Montana, believes that he got covid-19 while dining out at a restaurant a couple of weeks ago. Montana has seen a disturbing rise in coronavirus cases in recent weeks, with about 900 new cases each day.

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For the past nine months, one topic has been at the forefront of our national conversation about the 2016 election: Ted Cruz's face. "Hating a face like that, the O.G. face made for punching, is actually super easy," Wonkette said of Cruz's mug.

While you might think the pandemic caused many people to sleep less, it actually allowed teenagers to sleep more, which had benefits on their stress levels, a new study says.

Two friends of mine were asked at a dinner party for the characteristics they looked for in a man. One talked about a left-leaning, socially conscious Guardian reader. The other reeled off a memorable triptych: “Likes pints, can ski, has a big dick.” My instinct was to assume the more lascivious answer to be the truer (a rule for life). But I am beginning to doubt myself — because dating, it seems, has been swallowed by the “culture wars”, and where once we had “types”, now we have factions. Of course, everyone still has their deal-breakers. When I surveyed more of my female friends last week, their answers were personal: no one who goes to Dubai on holiday, no gamers, no dirty bathrooms, no one who wants to get married. One told me that she’d been on a date with a man who was “grossed out by rosé from outside Provence”. But their responses were tribal too. From my skewed sample — all university-educated, London dwellers aged between 24 and 33 — there was a recurring theme: no Tories allowed. “If it says Conservative on their Hinge it’s a big fat no from me”, one said. Another remarked that “any non-liberal vibes are a big turn-off”. Only a couple admitted that they had and would date a Conservative voter, which mimics the trend I’ve noticed during a hefty stretch of singledom. My Hinge profile conveys the way I look, my hobbies, my occupation, my level of education, my vaccination status — and my politics. There is the option to display whether you are “liberal”, “conservative” or “moderate”; mine is set to “liberal” — because I think it’s true and because to do otherwise would be a romantic disaster. On top of that, you answer prompts — things like: “I’m looking for . . .”; “Together we could . . .”; “You should not go out with me if . . .” I’ve looked at a lot of these profiles, read thousands of prompts and never seen one that criticises the Labour Party (presumably in a different social corral they do exist). Those deriding the Conservatives, though, are plentiful. One common response is the basic: “You should not go out with me if . . . you are a Tory.” And with that position comes a list of ideological requirements, ostentatiously displayed, which feel incongruous with attraction. One prevalent prompt reads: “Together we could . . . dismantle the patriarchy.” I mean, yes, I’m up for it, let’s improve the world — but are you sure that’s the best place to start? Is that what we’ll do at the weekend? I’m here for equality (promise), but shall we have dinner first? One woman is looking for “a fellow leftie to build a queer feminist utopia with”. So, does that mean you don’t want to get drunk, potentially snog, and maybe one day combine our salaries so we can get a mortgage? Another is searching for “a vegan/BLM ally/intersectional feminist/climate-change activist”. What? Those are your non-negotiables? I am not deriding their significance — and I couldn’t date a climate-change denier — but what relevance does this have to love or attraction? What about luxurious hair and laughter and a nice face? This has me worried. I’m nearly 30. I’m single. Have I now inadvertently passed into the most heinous category of undateable: am I problematic? After all, I read a piece in The Economist last week — is anything to the right of Novara Media beyond the pale? I watch Champions League football (for work!) — am I endorsing international air travel, contrary to the aims of ecological socialism? Perhaps I’ll just lie. I could be better off, and it does seem to be what everyone else is doing. For every friend who claimed that they’d “never shag a Tory”, I could think of one Tory they’d already slept with for reasons other than their politics — because they were pretty or funny or charming. Yet those examples of star-crossed love could become a relic if our relationships continue to be filtered by a divisive algorithm. But this is the pattern, the twitterisation of life. Everything you believe must be believed stridently and broadcast widely, your assumed ideology must be all-encompassing. A little “F*** the Tories” here, a little red rose emoji there, a New Yorker tote bag slung over the shoulder: “Yes, I’m liberal, OK, and I really, really mean it — I subscribed to the same £12 introductory offer as everyone else and I cancelled it after the first 12 weeks.” I’m part of an overwhelmingly left-leaning demographic. In a recent YouGov poll for The Times 39 per cent of 25 to 49-year-olds said that they intended to vote Labour, compared with 29 per cent for the Conservatives; in London (all ages) the split was 48 to 32. And we are a demographic that likes to wear our left-wing, ecological credentials — really, google THOU SHALT NEVER F*** A TORY T-shirt — even if your parents bought your flat or you make £100,000 doing legal work for Boeing. I want the pretence to stop. I don’t want someone who is ideologically pure, I want someone who is beautiful and who makes me laugh. But I’ve said it now — definitely beyond the pale — so I suppose I’ll just stay single.

Roughly 75 miles into their training ride, Ferrell says a black diesel pickup truck slowed down near him and accelerated to blow smoke in his lane.  Moments later, the pickup trick tried doing the same thing to other cyclists riding ahead of Ferrell. "The reason he couldn’t stop is because he was accelerating to blow more diesel fuel on these cyclists," said Ferrell.  "He ended up hitting 3 people before his brakes even started."

In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.

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"They had headlines that Biden wins in Arizona, when they know it's not true," Trump told his supporters in Georgia. "He lost in Arizona based on the forensic audit."

There was a time, before Out Run was released in September 1986, when video games were yet to discover the joy of just driving. Back then, the reference point for driving games was Pole Position, which came out in 1982 with a host of innovations: colourful pseudo-3D graphics instead of a top down view, a qualifying lap and a track based on a real circuit, a fully seated cabinet with a steering wheel and a gear shift. It was competitive and unforgiving: if you hit another driver or a roadside obstacle, your F1 car would immediately explode. Out Run was nothing like that. It was laid back and casual, offering a leisurely drive more than a race. It had blue skies and stunning scenery and a convertible Ferrari. It was welcoming, rather than challenging. “Unlike rigid racing games, I was able to create a new genre of driving game where you would drive one-handed with a beautiful girl by your side, listening to the car stereo while leaving the competition in the dust,” explains Yu Suzuki, the legendary game designer behind Out Run and a host of other influential games including After Burner, Virtua Fighter and Shenmue. Suzuki is an eccentric game developer, even by Japanese standards. He wanted to fit an actual combustion engine in the chassis of his previous game, the motorbike racer Hang On, so that players would get realistic sounds and vibrations while riding the replica GP500 bike that served as its controls (he had to settle with a subwoofer instead). He isn’t really a gamer, but he loves fast cars and the Burt Reynolds movie The Cannonball Run, which was his inspiration for Out Run: “I thought it would be fun to present in a game the simple, straightforward satisfaction of barreling towards the goal line in a super car,” he says.

Every day we stray further from God’s light.

A prosecutor found chaos, but no crime, in the shooting of Michael Reinoehl, a murder suspect who identified as antifa

The coronavirus crisis has provided an unwelcome lesson in the hidden perils of working in the kind of high-touch environments required of movie and TV production.

The exchange began as Greene exited the House chamber following the passage of the Women's Health Protection Act, which would codify Roe v. Wade into law and ensure abortion access regardless of future Supreme Court rulings. The bill is unlikely to reach the 60 votes necessary to pass the Senate.

Fox News has banned Rudy Giuliani and his son from appearing on its network, Politico Playbook reported

As a Republican review of 2020 votes in Arizona sputtered to a close, Donald Trump and his allies signaled that their attack on the election, and their drive to reshape future elections, were far from over.

As Changing America previously reported, only one country is complying with the Paris Accord, a global initiative with the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and it is the smallest country within mainland Africa.

For decades, the mascara-laden Tammy Faye was relentlessly mocked. Maybe America got her wrong.

The Lincoln Police Department and the Nebraska State Patrol have linked fentanyl-laced cocaine that has led to multiple overdoses to the State Patrol’s own evidence locker.