Covers: Stacy’s Mom

“Stacy’s Mom’ is a great 2003 song by Fountains of Wayne.

Trump politicized Covid response

Trump’s behavior caused thousands of deaths.

How politics infected Trump’s coronavirus response, in one key case https://t.co/YCDTOtzFGQ
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 15, 2021

Ivanka Trump, Famed Public Health Expert, Screened CDC Guidance to Make Sure It Was Nice to Her Dad | Vanity Fair – 12/18/20 https://t.co/iSYswFw04n
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) November 14, 2021

We will never fully know how many people died as a result of these actions. https://t.co/CajwicLoBC
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) November 14, 2021

There was only one story worth coverage in our politics as the week began. The story was that, for four years, the United States of America, the world’s oldest democracy, was governed by monsters. https://t.co/6fh4K2KtM4
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 15, 2021

Now fewer Republicans are getting flu shots

Terrible. I blame Trump and his cult.

A worrisome sign that Covid vaccine hesitancy may transfer to other vaccines. Pre-Covid, Democrats & Republicans were equally likely to get a flu shot. This year Democrats are 25 points more likely to get a flu shot than Republicans. https://t.co/Y6exd98Ncv
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) November 14, 2021

French fry-flavored vodka

You can;t make this up. I love fries but I don’t know if this is a good idea.

Want some fries in that vodka? Arby's rolls out limited edition fry-flavored booze https://t.co/5dC0vOUlA9 by @alliecanal8193 pic.twitter.com/iEBHhSt2y9
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) November 9, 2021

The Arby’s Vodka. ONLY at https://t.co/8dqsRzCi3F. Available 11.18.2021 at 12pm ET. #ArbysVodka

Available for a limited time. Quantities extremely limited. Proudly distilled by @tattersallco and distributed by @surdyksliquor. Must be 21+. Drink responsibly. pic.twitter.com/lgxuq6OBcv
— Arby's (@Arbys) November 10, 2021

Moonlight Graham was real

Moonlight Graham, a character in the film Field of Dreams and Shoeless Joe, the novel it was based on, was real. He really did appear in one major league game. His birthday was yesterday.

Archibald "Moonlight" Graham was born this day in 1876 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. pic.twitter.com/mGlhpFBGFb
— Baseball In Pics (@baseballinpix) November 12, 2021

Moonlight Graham was born this day in 1877. Here's the box score from his lone career game in the Majors (from Chicago Tribune – 6/30/1905) pic.twitter.com/f23PDcLszG
— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) November 12, 2021

#OTD in 1876, Archibald “Moonlight” Graham was born in Fayetteville, NC. Here’s a color study of him with the New York Giants in 1905. pic.twitter.com/FR5V1ECekm
— Graig Kreindler (@GraigKreindler) November 12, 2021

Moonlight Graham, one of baseball history’s most unassuming legends, graduated from medical school in Baltimore in 1905.

His letters and four signatures from that time were recently discovered. “There was that tingling feeling.”

Today’s @BaltimoreSun:https://t.co/zXIzHbqDhQ pic.twitter.com/FGIeFMXJVY
— Hayes Gardner (@HayesGardner) July 5, 2022

#OTD in 1965, Archibald “Moonlight” Graham passed away at the age of 88. Here’s a color study of the great man with the New York Giants in 1905. pic.twitter.com/2SvaI1H8hq
— Graig Kreindler (@GraigKreindler) August 25, 2022

Yearbook autographed by ‘Moonlight’ Graham, ballplayer who attended medical school in Baltimore, fetching thousands at auction https://t.co/bcVv8ING5G
— Baltimore Sun Health (@BaltSunHealth) July 11, 2023

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Public support for mandates

Do you support or oppose requiring that face masks be worn by students, teachers, and staff in schools in your state?

Support 61%
Oppose 34%

(Monmouth U. Poll, 11/4-8/21)https://t.co/IiCgGgKEMr
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) November 11, 2021

New @axios-Ipsos poll: Clear majority of Americans support vaccine-or-testing mandates for businesses pic.twitter.com/YKXhNYG8G8
— The Recount (@therecount) September 14, 2021

57% of Americans support requiring proof of vaccination to fly on an airplane vs. 40% who oppose it via new Monmouth poll out today.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) November 11, 2021

Covers: Back in the U.S.A.

Chuck Berry’s 1959 hit “Back in the U.S.A” was also a hit for Lind Ronstadt in 1978.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWTKxIjZmfs

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Anti-vaxxers terrible comparison of their situation to the Holocaust

They obviously have no understanding of the Holocaust.

I'm not easily triggered. But I am triggered by spoiled, well-off, self-indulgent, and thoughtless Americans comparing themselves to Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, who were forced to wear yellow stars so as to be more easily subject to persecution, and then to extermination. https://t.co/JFDdK69zSD
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 13, 2021

Misleading column by Chris Cillizza

He talks about Biden’s low popularity rating but neglects to mention that the infrastructure bill is popular.

You didn’t note that the infrastructure bill is popular.https://t.co/lAbAKi0iSO
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) November 13, 2021

I saw Hunter S.Thompson…and he was terrible

I saw Hunter S. Thompson perform in a bar in Baltimore on February 5, 1991, and he was awful. He was drunk and incoherent. My buddy and I (along with others) walked out. Here’s the Baltimore Sun account. I was a big admirer of his Fear and Loathing books and this was very disillusioning.

I thought of Thompson yesterday because of this Instagram post:

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The first time I read anything by Thompson was his account of the Kentucky Derby in Scanlan’s magazine in 1970. It was the first time he had illustrations by Ralph Steadman that were the perfect match for his writing.

Here’s an annotated copy of the article, unfortunately without the illustrations.

In 1999, Steadman went back to the Derby.