The Colonial Gas Pipline Shutdown. If you put it online, they will hack it. This time, it was a gas pipeline. The media urged calm, saying supply was fine as long as people didn’t panic and rush to top off their tanks – which everybody promptly did, further fueling the “dumb redneck” stereotype that southerners deal with all the time. One woman even managed to blow up her car hoarding gas. Shake your head, but the rest of the country didn’t do any better with toilet paper and Clorox wipes a year ago. The Darwin Awards are getting hard pressed to find winners with all of these contenders. And social media is blowing up with pictures of the declining intelligence of the human race. The pipeline has been back online for several days, and supplies are projected to be back on track Sunday evening.
Removal of mask mandates. A surprise order was issued mid-week making masks optional in public schools, which has resulted in chaos, madness, and even a planned protest. This follows recommendations that fully vaccinated people can ditch masks in many situations. There are two problems with these things: first, children under 12 can’t be vaccinated, so what the hell in the schools? Second, how do you know whose been vaccinated? They’re relying on the honor system, but bear in mind that you’re asking the same people who have been hoarding gas in plastic buckets and bags after being told not to panic and cause a gas shortage to be honest about their vaccination status.
University of South Carolina President Bob Caslen resigns after he’s caught plagiarizing part of his commencement speech. Really? Colleges and Universities (especially USC) have super-strict rules and consequences for plagiarizing and the President did it at graduation? I am speechless. I am without words. But really, he never was a popular pick for that position anyway. I’m not surprised that they called back Harris Pastides to fill in. He was pretty popular.
So that’s the insanity in our corner of the world. Zack and I would laugh at it, but we’re two of the parrots that have to live on this planet that you humans are trying to destroy. Sheese.
That’s all today. Take care, and have a great weekend.
Luv,
Bubbles