Thursday Reads

 Good for United Airlines.  I hope ALL private businesses do the same thing.  The unpaid leave part, which is similar to what is happening in Oregon school districts, is an added incentive to get the vaccine.

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Associate Justice Stephen Breyer is highly critical of the court majority's recent bullshit ruling on the Texas abortion law.

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Actor Michael Constantine, 94, died August 31 of natural causes, it was reported. :

Constantine was the son of Greek immigrants. He started his career on stage and was on Broadway in the late 1950s and early ’60s in such shows as “Arturo Ui,” “The Miracle Worker” and “Inherit the Wind.”

He made his big-screen debut alongside Mickey Rooney in “The Last Mile” and had roles in “The Hustler,” “Don’t Drink the Water,” “Prancer,” “The Reivers,” “My Life” and “The Juror.”

Constantine was married and divorced twice. Survivors include his sisters, Patricia Gordon and Chris Dobbs.

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Apparently the despicable woman who was smirking and laughing has lost her job. Good riddance:

Hey @cigna, why is your employee Erika Casher laughing at this grieving young man who is 10 times as smart and 10000 times as human as she is? And why is she still your employee? #BoycottCigna https://t.co/YLxukoCjed

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 8, 2021

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Pete Buttigieg and his husband have some explaining to do.

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The media are indeed ethically challenged when it comes to the trans issue.

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