The year 2020. As the ball dropped, the First Quarter told its brothers, "watch me guys, I've got something special planned for this one." In January the govt of the Maldives warned that it could lose entire islands to the rise of the ocean level due to global warming, On Jan. 21 the US CDC announced the first case of coronavirus in the US, in Washington State. Over the last week of January the impeachment trial of Donald Trump played out in the Senate. On Feb. 7, the Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warnings about the pandemic, died after contracting the virus. A week later the newspaper publisher McClatchy filed for Chapter 11 protection. On Feb. 22 a flat earth conspiracy theorist died after the crash of a homemade rocket he was using to try to test his theory. Social darwinians rejoiced at the implicit evidence for their rightness. By the end of the month the pandemic was running wild in Iran, Italy, Austria, and Spain. On March 5, the ...
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Dennis Hof for President in 2020!!! Hof, a licensed and very successful pimp, branched out (a little bit, hardly even enough branching to be noticed) into politics in the final year of his life. He was running for a post in Nevada's state assembly when he died, on October 16. That was too late for any change in the ballots and, as it happens, Hof won. What happens with the seat now, I don't know. I suggest that Hof's body be preserved, that an "abstain" be recorded in his name for any actual votes that august assembly may take, and that sensible pro-freedom folk rally around Hof as our candidate for the next US presidential campaign.