Good news -- and the rest

 Happy.  Brandon Bradshaw's colorful paintings of manhole covers are the toast of Sioux City, Iowa.  Except for the city itself, which arrested him on November 4 and charged him with criminal mischief and public drinking.  Does this look like mischief?

Authorities say the flowers could encourage people to create "less attractive graffiti."  Residents say they brighten a wintry place and hail Bradshaw as the "Manhole Michelangelo."  Neighboring Sac City responded by organizing its own manhole painting contest under the title "Our Town Is Cooler Than Yours."  It looks as if Sioux City will drop the charges if Bradshaw pays court costs and seeks approval before committing any more acts of beauty.

Funny.  Campbell's Company fired Martin Bally, vice president for information technology, after a former employee recorded his opinion of the company's best-known product, canned soup.  "We have shit for fucking poor people.  Who buys our shit?  I don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore.  It's not healthy now than I know what the fuck's in it.  Bioengineered meat.  I don't want to eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer."  The former employee turned his recording over to Campbell as part of a lawsuit.  He claims that Bally also referred to Indian employees as "idiots" and said he often went to work after consuming edibles.  Mmm mmm good!

Decisive.  Judges up and down the country have issued orders to deter the worst excesses of ICE, to no avail.  In Rhode Island Judge Joseph McBurney had to put himself in the firing line.  ICE was skulking around the judge's courtroom taking pictures, which is not allowed, and then tried to arrest his intern.  The intern was so shaken that the judge offered to drive them home.  ICE responded by threatening to smash the judge's window, one of their favorite tactics.  The head of security for the Rhode Island court had to step in and ICE eventually admitted their mistake after the intern produced ID.  Lieutenant governor Sabina Matos called the incident an "attempted abduction."

Prudent.  Trump has been threatening Venezuela, Honduras and Taiwan as his brain continues to deteriorate, but Denmark is taking no chances.  The government has established a "night watch" to monitor his TruthSocial rantings for any mention of Greenland between 5 pm and 7 am.  This way everyone else can get some sleep.  "Alliances are built on common values and a common threat perception.  Trump shares neither of those with us," said Jacob Kaarsbo, former chief defense analyst.  Scratch off one more longtime ally.

Techie.  The Airbus A320 is one of the most advanced (and largest) passenger planes in the world, but the designers didn't think of everything.  A piece of its software is susceptible to "intense solar radiation" and some 6,500 will be grounded for repairs starting Sunday.  No major solar flares are expected but better safe than not.  One of the companies affected is the British budget airline Wizz Air.  I'll spare you the obvious joke.

You should stop reading here if you want to enjoy the rest of the weekend.  Or try ingesting some edibles first.

Following the shooting of two National Guard members, the Washington Post reports that Guard members patrolling the city will be paired with DC police.  If the Guard need police protection, what was the point of deploying them?  To rake leaves?

That's more like it!  Trump released his real Thanksgiving message filled with lies, hate, hateful lies and authentic Queens gibberish.  

To which Governor Walz responded, "Release the MRI results."

After using an autopen for a couple of pardons last week Dear Leader proclaimed that "approximately 92 percent" of Joe Biden's are "hereby terminated."  He didn't specify the valid eight percent.  Release the MRI results.

Asked if he planned to attend the funeral of Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom Trump said he might because "I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere [sic]."  If he does the mourners can expect a campaign speech about magnets and Somalia.  Release the MRI results.

South Africa has been disinvited from next year's G20 summit in Miami because they're eating the dogs and cats -- sorry, wrong rant -- they're murdering and killing all the white people.  We must hope that the other eighteen countries withdraw in protest.  Release the MRI results.

December 1 is World AIDS Day and to the surprise of no one there will be no official commemoration in the US because it's an icky disease that only gay men get, probably from covid vaccine.  Last year it looked like this.

The White House was whole and there were green plants in the former Rose Garden.  It seems like a century ago.

Release the MRI results.