Colbert risked spreading the Corona virus

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Saturday February 29, 2020 · 11:29 PM PST

2020/02/29 · 23:29

Stephen Colbert opened his Friday night show with his usual audience encounter of running down the front row of the audience and slapping each hand held out to him. Except this time he was wearing a blue vinyl glove.

This was funny and fine for Colbert, but it was not so good for the audience members who he risked spreading a virus from person to person. Next time the show should pass out vinyl gloves to all the front row viewers and send a cautious message about contact between people.

Every day precautions: I recently had to sign a credit card receipt. I looked at the pen provided by the cashier that was secured by a long string of rubber bands and thought of the dozens of customers that handled that pen before me. I decided that I am not going to pick up that pen and use it. I found a pen in my pocket and signed the receipt.

McCains staff "rearranging the flowers"

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Monday July 07, 2008 · 12:06 PM PDT

2008/07/07 · 12:06

A friend was helping at a John McCain event in a very republican area, Bucks County Pennsylvania. The event was held at a company owned by a big bucks Republican contributor.

The event was to have been held there three weeks ago, but they couldn't even draw a crowd, so they hit the phone banks and rescheduled it for late last week. A resounding dispassionate and unexcited group of 1,000 attended. They had to turn a whopping crowd of 50 away when they ran out of "legal" room.

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Wednesday January 23, 2008 · 11:55 AM PST

2008/01/23 · 11:55

The American Conservative published the Sibel Edmonds story today.

Finally a major media outlet has broken the silence.

http://www.amconmag.com/...

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Friday August 31, 2007 · 11:20 PM PDT

2007/08/31 · 23:20

I was watching Bill Moyers interview Poet Robert Bly this evening on WNET channel 13 in New York.
The topic was the Power of Poetry. http://www.pbs.org/...
During the interview a curious thing happened. Bly had just read one of his poems. He said that "It's a good poem, even for the United States right now."
Moyers asked "why?"
In the course of his answer Bly mentioned that'd be a good thing to say to Bush.

The television screen went black,"Thirteen" appeared on the screen and there was no audio.

Several seconds later the program resumed.

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