This style guide for sanity in journalism should have been out there thirty years ago, before the English language started getting polluted with queer theory and "woke" postmodernism.
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The U.S. Senate right now (9 a.m. PST) is taking up the $2,000 stimulus checks.
Of course the useless McConnell objects.
We will see if the Senate bothers to pass it.
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut wasn't having any of this bullshit:
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A couple of notable obits in recent days:
Rock guitarist Leslie West, 75, died a few days ago of cardiac arrest. He is known for his work in the band Mountain, and I remember him from way back then:
Born Leslie Weinstein on October 22nd, 1945, West grew up in the New York area — Manhattan, Long Island, and Forest Hills, Queens — and was a founding member of the Vagrants, a blue-eyed soul garage band of the mid-Sixties. The group (which also included his brother Larry on bass) scored two minor hits — “I Can’t Make a Friend” and a cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” (released just ahead of Aretha Franklin’s titanic version) — before West left the band. A turning point, he once said, was seeing Cream at the Village Theatre (later the Fillmore East) in 1967. “My brother said to me, ‘Let’s take some acid before we go,’ ” West told Blues Rock Review in 2015. “So we took LSD and all of a sudden the curtain opens up and I hear them playing ‘Sunshine of Your Love,’ and I see Eric Clapton and his buckskin jacket. I said, ‘Oh, my God, we really suck.’ After that, I started really practicing and practicing.”
Famous fashion designer Pierre Cardin, only 98 years old, has died. He died in a Paris hospital.
Cardin was only 14 when he started as a tailor’s apprentice. At 23, he moved to Paris, studying architecture and working with the Paquin fashion house and later with Elsa Schiaparelli. In the French capital, he met the film director Jean Cocteau and helped design masks and costumes for the 1946 film “La Belle et La Bete.”
He moved to Christian Dior in 1946, working as a pattern cutter on the feminine “New Look” fashion of post-World War II. Four years later, he opened his own fashion house, designing costumes for theater.
In 1953, he presented his first women’s collection and the following year, he founded his first ladies boutique, Eve, and unveiled the bubble dress. The garment, a loose-fitting dress that gathers at the waist and hem and balloons at the thighs, won international acclaim. Soon, his fashions were being worn by such bold-face names as Eva Peron, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Mia Farrow and Jacqueline Kennedy.
Old Pierre was supposedly gay, but he wasn't so much so that he wouldn't refuse a long affair with a woman like Jeanne Moreau. However, he still had his main relationship with associate Andre Oliver, who died many years ago, 1993, to be exact.
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Then there is this news about Louisiana representative-elect Luke Letlow, just 41, who died of COVID-19 only 11 days after he was diagnosed with the virus.
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