Day 410

• Major setback in the virus in Japan.  Cancellations of many events as new restrictions have had to be put in place because of a surge in cases.  The Olympics are scheduled to be in about three months.
• Thierry Henry and the CEO of Spotify have joined forces in a bid to buy Arsenal -- several other Arsenal legends are also involved.
• And now we have the great record-book anomaly of the baseball COVID Era:  Madison Bumgartner has thrown a seven-inning no-hitter in a seven-inning scheduled game -- but he's not going to get credit for it in history.  Deadspin is right -- that's an awfully slippery slope.   
• As if LSU couldn't make things any worse...  LSU has just hired the pig who was coaching the Baylor women's program.
• Seven women have now filed lawsuits against the university for their cover-up of the football team and it's sexual assaults.
• At least two NFL athletes are either going to be paid in or will convert their salary into Bitcoin.  You idiots do realize:  1) It's a counterfeit currency.  2) Many conservative punk-ass boys are basically doing the same...  because they do not believe the United States Dollar survives another year or two!  
• Speaking of "conservative punk-ass boys", the state of Arizona is actually performing a Republican-led recount of the 2020 Presidential election.  And no, Mr. Denninger, I have actually read news stories about this effort from at least THREE sites.  But here's the problem:  What do you do if you find out from the recount Trump "won"?   
• Results from the 2020 Census are in, and, starting in 2022, Texas will gain two House seats (and, hence, Electoral College votes) -- California and New York each lose one.
• The recall election of Gavin Newsom (largely over Republican temper tantrums over COVID restrictions) will go forward to a vote by the voters, as the state has confirmed the sufficient number of signatures (about 1.6 million).  Such elections are an immediate two-part process:  First, a yes-no on recalling him outright.  Then, a vote from any and all who choose to candidate for the office if the recall succeeds.  The bad news for the morons is that the latest poll has the question on recalling him losing by sixteen points.