Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague and see if you can figure out the answer together.
I’ll confirm answers in the afternoon so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance to guess.
This week’s brain teaser was shared by Patrick Berry, of Jasper, AL who submitted this to NPR’s Sunday Puzzle. It’s tricky but you can do it.
This week’s brain teaser: There is a seven letter Northern European city that if you remove its third letter, you’ll get a two-word phrase describing what you must do to win a race. If instead you remove the fourth letter, you’ll get a two-word phrase describing what you can’t do to win a race. What’s the city?
Donald Trump’s inability to accept defeat by Joe Biden is not a surprise. What is a surprise is Biden receiving 77 million votes; nearly 5 million more votes than Trump as well as winning the two solidly red states of Arizona and Georgia.
As mail-in ballots were counted in the days that followed the election and Trump watched his lead in several states dissapear, his limited cognitive abilities left him to conclude (what he has been asserting since he ran for election in 2016) that our democracy is rigged. These bogus claims have failed to stand up in court, but I’m frustrated by Republicans like Attorney General William Barr and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who are lending credence to these claims without any evidence and the media’s (and when I say “the media” I actually mean FOX News) lack of pushback to these conspiracy theories.
Why can’t a list of voters be provided by the Trump re-election campaign to corroborate claims of voter fraud?
We’ve just witnessed an historic election that had more Americans voting for president than ever before. The latest tallies have Joe Biden with 77 million votes and Donald Trump with 72 million votes, meaning 149 million Americans cast a vote in this election up from 138 million in 2016.
Biden’s cushion of 5 million more votes than Trump is why he was able to win states like Georgia which saw 1 million more voters participate in this elecation than 2016, and Arizona which saw approximately 900,000 more voters participate in this election. Turnout was up everywhere in the nation, but in many sunbelt states that increase favors Democrats.
Joe Biden recieved 77 million votes to Donald Trump’s 72 million votes.
As corny as it sounds, I have absolute faith that our government will transition power to Joe Biden in January, but what concerns me is the way this will happen and at what cost to the Biden/Harris team? Will Joe Biden be plagued by innuendo and unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud due to this public trial based solely on Trump’s vivid imagination and no facts? Will Biden’s effort to address and curb the coronavirus pandemic be set back? Will they be able to conduct background checks on members of their incoming administration so they can be ready to work come January 2021?
Who can say what the coming weeks will bring, but this is an excellent civics class where we are all able to watch our government. The real question in my mind, is will key Republicans be true to the democratic process or to their beloved, obese turtle who finds himself on his back flailing in the hot sun?
Any thoughts on when this photo may have been taken? It can be tough to get clues when all you can go by is hair styles since these guys are shirtless. If you like this photo chck out a larger collection of more than forty photos of gay couples published by Gayety in May 2019.
I dedicate this weekly post, featuring vintage gay photographs, to the men and women who lived in a more critical time where being true to yourself and loving who you want wasn’t always an option and came at a great price. Do you have a photo you would like to share? Email me at bosguymail@gmail.com.
Scott Marsh is an Australian artist who started as a graffiti artist in the streets of Sydney Australia where he developed a reputation as one of the most talented graffiti of his generation. You can learn more about this acclaimed artist and even purchase his work if you like from his website, scottmarsh.com.au.
Scott or “Scottie” as he goes by on Instagram caught my attention with one of his more political creations from this past week. He was clearly inspired by Anderson Cooper’s description of Donald Trump when he said, “That is the president of the United States. That is the most powerful person in the world. We see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over.”
Hopefully the caption I’ve shared below inspires you to offer up a caption or two of your own. Leave a funny caption as a comment for this post, and I’ll approve it for readers to enjoy.
A steep drop in MBTA ridership attributed to the pandemic and rising unemployment combined with the need for state budget cuts has resulted in some pretty scary proposed cuts that include halting all ferry service, eliminating a half-dozen commuter rail stops as well as stopping weekend service, cutting 25 bus routes and decreasing subway frequencies.
As a result of the decline in ridership that is similarly impacting transit agencies across the country, the MBTA is now only transporting 330,000 trips on an average weekday – but is continuing to run the same high levels of service as it ran to serve 1.26 million daily trips prior to the pandemic, an unsustainable level of service delivery.
Ferry service is currently running at 12% of pre-pandemic levels. Commuter rail service is essentially the same running at 13% of pre-pandemic levels. Subway and bus service are faring better but also have seen steep drop offs in ridership so the MBTA is proposing fewer trains and ending service at 12 Midnight. Approximately 25 bus routes appear to be on the chopping block. You can see what the MBTA has proposed for changes in bus service, here.
Some of the cuts to the commuter rail and ferry could be phased in as soon as January, but the changes to rapid transit and bus service would not be expected until the spring of 2021.
Here is a cheeky post with a pretty spectacular backdrop in Scotland. Thanks for stopping by to check out this week’s post. While you’re here feel free to peruse my previous posts or check out my blogroll here —>
This is an easy, affordable and versatile dish that takes about 15 minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to cook. You can add a protein like chicken if you want, but the ingredients can vary to suit whatever is in your refrigerator. Just be mindful to start with the ingredients that take the longest to cook.
Step 1: Pull out whatever you would like to include in this vegetable mélange and chop into bite size pieces. You will also need: 1 tablespoon of butter, some vegetable or chicken broth (water or even a lager or ale works too), salt and pepper and of course a curry. I use Spur Tree Jamaican curry.
Step 2: Over medium heat add 1 tablespoon of butter and let it melt. Add 1 chopped onion and 2 healthy tablespoons of curry. Let this cook for a couple of minutes then add the thicker vegetables (see below) I used 1 cauliflower, 2 carrots, a half cup of walnuts and 4-6 small, whole garlic cloves. Add salt and cover for approximately 15 minutes (stirring occassionally).
Step 3: Add 1/3 of a cup of broth and stir to ensure nothing is sticking to the bottom of the pan then add the lighter vegetables. I used a red and green bell pepper, 8-10 baby bella mushrooms, and 2 celery stalks. Add fresh ground pepper and cover for another 5-10 minutes. If you want to increase the curry flavoring also add a final tablespoon at this point and stir.
Step 4: Turn off heat and leave uncovered for 5 minutes to cool before serving.
Cooking tip: This is great on its own, but I like to serve this over rice. This meal makes for excellent leftovers, tasting even better the next day.
ADAM & ANDY is set in the fictional New England town of Woodfield, CT. You can learn more about Adam and Andy and purchase a copy of “the definitive collection of Adam and Andy” by visiting, adamandandy.com.
There was no new comic strip by James Asal Jr. who is juggling a busy schedule so I thought I’d share this collection from last November.
Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague and see if you can figure out the answer together.
I’ll confirm answers in the afternoon so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance to guess.
This week’s brain teaser: You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I?
Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague and see if you can figure out the answer together.
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