Retiring Guy's Digest

Thursday, January 14, 2021

GET ME REWRITE: Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt, anti-masker and Trump Loyalist Clown Show cast member, ignored advice on Covid mitigation measures

Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma

New York Times, 1/13/2021

Oklahoma is in the grip of a frightening surge of the coronavirus, the worst it has yet seen and one of the worst in America’s winter.
Mercy Hospital Ardmore, in rural Oklahoma, has so many Covid-19 patients that some people are being cared for in curtained-off areas of hallways and the emergency department’s waiting room. It has been this way for weeks.

New York Times

The Oklahoman, 1/9/2021

Original 7/15/2020, "Retiring Guy is shocked! Shocked!", starts here.

Headline: Tulsa World, 7/15/2020

Data: COVID Tracking Project

Related reading:
Gov Stitt a major reason many Oklahomans still casual about COVID-19. (Oklahoma Free Press, 4/1/2020)
Governor Who Repeatedly Refused Masks and Social Distancing Is ‘Pretty Shocked’ He’s Been Infected With Coronavirus. (The New Civil Rights Movement, 7/15/2020)

Bloodrock: From dirge rock to Jethro Tull wannabe

The album version of "D.O.A", clocking in at 8:20, appears on Bloodrock 2, which debuted on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart for the week ending 11/7/1970.

An edited 45rpm version, clocking in at 4:15, debuted at #94 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending 1/2/1971. Despite its being banned by numerous radio stations, it peaked at #36 in early March and spent a total of 13 weeks on the chart. It is the group's only appearance on the Hot 100, which, I suppose, makes them eligible for one-hit wonder status.

"Stilled by Whirlwind Tongues" is a cut on Bloodrock's final studio album, released in February 1974. It didn't chart. Music fans perferred their Tull straight from the source.

Perhaps the band should have called their 1974 album Bloodrock Tongues.

Bloodrock albums by date of Billboard Top 200 debut,

peak position, and weeks on chart

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Bryan Sykes

LINKcat

New York Times, 1/6/2021

Bryan Sykes, an Oxford geneticist, made his name as a swashbuckling public intellectual by studying the DNA of an alpine iceman, taking on the ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl’s theory about the peopling of Polynesia, and analyzing samples said to come from yetis, almas and sasquatches but which, he showed, actually came from bears, pigs and people — a disappointing result for Bigfoot hunters that didn’t keep one of them from naming him cryptozoologist of the year in 2013.

The 48 member libraries of LINKcat