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Early Addition: Portugal Is A Place Where Almost Everyone's Vaccinated & COVID-19 Is 'Endemic'
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James Ramsay
Published Oct 26, 2021
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Published Oct 26, 2021
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- Minnesota's House and Senate delegation is trying to get Prince a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal, which is an extremely rare award (only 163 people, including George Washington and Rosa Parks, have one), and requires two-thirds of both chambers to vote yes.
- Ocean County, New Jersey residents are pissed about a local house that has a bunch of Confederate flags and a Klan robe-wearing figure in its Halloween display.
- Rust assistant director Dave Halls, who was one of two people besides Alec Baldwin who allegedly touched the prop gun that Baldwin used to fatally shoot the movie's cinematographer, had apparently been fired from another film set in 2019 over a gun-related injury.
- For the past year, a small town in North Carolina has been terrorized by a few dozen buzzards that have been a) pooping everywhere, releasing waste that's so acidic it can strip the paint off a car, and b) projectile vomiting anytime someone tries scaring them away.
- Congrats (?) to Tesla for being the lowest revenue-generating company to ever get a trillion-dollar valuation on the stock market.
- Is This a Room and Dana H., two acclaimed and somewhat experimental plays that opened on Broadway this fall, are ending their scheduled runs early, presumably because they didn't sell enough tickets.
- The Wall Street Journal has an account of what life is now like in Portugal, where 89% of the population (and nearly 100% of people over 50) are vaccinated and COVID-19 has become "endemic."
- The guy who designed the original iPod has confirmed that this photo of a massive, pit-stain-colored box is indeed a prototype of the first iPod, which intentionally looked weird as a matter of keeping the real design secret.
- Shoutout to Lalito, the since-closed Chinatown restaurant that played Jennifer Lopez's "Waiting for Tonight" on loop in the bathroom.
- And finally, the art of leaning at the bar:
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