Prickly City by Scott Stantis for September 05, 2020

I’m burnin’ through the sky, yeah

Two hundred degrees

That’s why they call me Mister Fahrenheit

I’m traveling at the speed of light

I wanna make a supersonic woman of you

So don’t stop me now

Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury Wherever You Are.

So many folks have made jokes about what will happen before the end of 2020. And the punchline always is,

2020’s going to end?!?

(As in, most of us just can’t wait)

Another joke, late February or early March, was Colbert noting that he was already nostalgic for 2019! And to think, in March, the real fun had yet to begin!

Well, some think it was fun. I’m sure most of us didn’t think it was.

I think we have a better chance of surviving a botched presidency than an intersection with an asteroid.

Smedley Butler knew, braindead.

I have that bumper sticker….

Actual audible chuckle… Off Topic: The Interpreter: Who polices police? …When I was in Chile last fall to cover the nationwide protests that had convulsed the country, I interviewed Carlos Huneeus, a former diplomat, opponent of the Pinochet regime, and scholar of democratic transitions in Spain and Chile. … Mr. Huneeus said something that brought me up short: That the crisis was partly due to the Chilean government’s attempts to gain control over the police. …If you’ve read this far hoping that I’m going to be able to point to another study that offers a tidy solution, I’m sorry to disappoint you. …it is still useful, I think, to come to grips with the nature and scale of the problem. So: It is severe. And it is big.

Yes, even asteroids like the wonderful selection and great prices at their nearby Target superstore! We now return you to your regular program.

Carmen, that’s a “when,” not an “if.” The earth is regularly struck by celestial objects. Of course, that’s the “opinion” of scientists who study that sort of thing, and we all know that scientists never know what they’re talking about. That’s why we rely on someone’s “gut feeling” about such things, regardless of the research, the data, and the evidence. /s

Why is she standing in Delaware?

Take heart, Carmen. 2020 is in it’s last stretch, and (God willing) we’ll put the grownups (i.e Biden/Harris) in charge in January (though we might have to literally drag Trump out). We will get through this.

It’s not the ones we know and see coming, it is the ones that surprise us as they pass. It would fit the theme of 2020 if the moment we know this little one has passed we get hit by a big one we were unaware of.

Or maybe a Vogan Constructor Fleet.

Speaking of exploding heads, we, and the media should stop referring to him as “President” Trump. “Trump” or any other of wonderful monikers people have come up with will do.

It is coming & may hit. It’s too small to do much, if any damage. Hopefully a good metaphor for the last few years.

For Carmen’s purposes it doesn’t need to be big enough to kill everybody, it just needs to be big enough to kill her.

But if we’re talking about a falling object only big enough to take out one person, I can think of a much better place for the target.