Have no fear, the December ish is here!

It's another December to dismember at The Last Word!

The December issue is now pub, and it discusses more lost drones, assorted misbehavior in schools and public places, a Cabbage Patch Kids wallet being thrown away by a teacher, an idea for a humorous Thanksgiving-themed bubble gum commercial, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/485822707/The-Last-Word-12-2020

If that doesn't work, bip on over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2012.pdf

A person bunkerooed on the day after Thanksgiving

I had 2 Thanksgiving family gatherings this year - one on Thanksgiving Day and the other yesterday.

At yesterday's get-together - which drew 12 people - an LAP bunker blast was detected. Laughs were heard.

Tea Party group sued over voter fraud claims

Every corner of the political spectrum has its grifters. We've learned the hard way that there's "progressive" scammers like MoveOn.

Folks on the right have been conned as well. True the Vote is a Tea Party group that purports to fight voter fraud. But this organization actually promotes voter suppression. Given the atrocious quality of the major parties lately, my heart isn't in the cause of electoral politics like it used to be, but True the Vote has been alleging for years that opponents have committed voter fraud and has been advancing strict voter ID laws.

Now a True the Vote donor in North Carolina is suing the group for $2.5 million for not following through on its claims. After the recent election, True the Vote filed 4 lawsuits alleging voter fraud. But now it's already dropped all of them. The donor felt scammed because True the Vote couldn't prove its claims and wasn't keeping him updated on its efforts.

One of the leading lights of Occupy Cincinnati once told me that, although the people running the Tea Party supported the legally indefensible Citizens United ruling, people who were in the Tea Party didn't. The disconnect between the Tea Party's leaders and its followers may apply to this story to some extent. We see a disconnect like this on the left too. Despite all the "progressive" blogs that suspiciously began supporting COVID-19 lockdowns in unison in March, notice that you don't know any rank-and-file followers who are complaining because people didn't stay home on Thanksgiving.

Maybe there should be a new big tent political party just for people who were ripped off by groups that claimed to represent them.

My head hurt for 2 days

When I update the illness log, you'll see that it doesn't just deal with contagious conditions.

On Tuesday, I felt like I had a hangover, because I wasn't able to sleep. Worse, it felt like there was something lodged in my throat - which kept expanding throughout the day.

Yesterday, my head hurt so bad that I kept popping aspirin. I would have gone to urgent care, except COVID-19 restrictions had forced our urgent care to close, and there was also still a backlog at medical facilities caused by restrictions months ago.

But last night, I began gagging and felt a foreign body dislodging from my throat. The pain that filled my head subsided instantaneously.

After that, everything was chill.

Ticketmaster tyranny

Seeing how the media can't contain its glee about COVID-19, this hasn't been a perfect week for the media ghouls. On Monday, Pfizer revealed that its new vaccine has more than a 90% efficacy rate, and its long-awaited approval is nigh. I have no objection to vaccines in general, and I hope to receive this vaccine the day I'm offered it.

But any reasonable person should be able to draw the line between medical progress and tyranny, and Ticketmaster is eager to turn this vaccine into a terrifying immunity passport. Ticketmaster is working on a new system that would require concertgoers to use their smartphone to verify their COVID-19 vaccination status or provide a recent negative test before being allowed to attend live shows.

Ticketmaster hopes to roll out this system in 2021. But why should the pandemic even still be a thing in 2021? The vaccine itself is supposed to be a tool in the arsenal to fight the pandemic, so why are the goalposts for the end of the pandemic being pushed back past the vaccine's rollout? As far as I'm concerned, once the vaccine is administered, the pandemic is over.

As with COVID-19 itself, the media seems to be expressing much glee over Ticketmaster's new system - boasting that the technology will also be used for airline travel, amusement park entry, and employment verification. They're also rubbing their hands together in excitement that it will boost the fortunes of investors who invest in it. In addition, another new technology will facilitate enforcement of social distancing at concerts. (Does anyone even still practice social distancing?)

This isn't how we do things in a free country. Even during a pandemic, we're supposed to have some freedom to move about and not subject ourselves to ridiculous high-tech misrule. Ticketmaster cares about one thing only: control.

There ought to be a law. There should be a law that says companies like Ticketmaster can't implement immunity passports like this. As eager as I am to get a vaccine and put the pandemic in the rear view mirror, Ticketmaster is guilty of little short of fascism.

A person bunkerooed on Halloween

Last night, I went to an important family gathering, and the bouquet of a silent-but-deadly bunker blast was twice detected.

On the way home, after midnight, I saw a person in a Big Bird costume walking down the street.