You’ve Been Pouring Your Coffee Wrong All This Time. We’ll Show You The Right Way! Tabs, Tues., Aug. 11, 2020
These are the Tabs of your lives.
Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh thinks that the college football show must go on — COVID-19 be damned. He should agree to let his players cough on him after each game. (ESPN)
Republicans Jim Jordan, Ben Sasse, and of course Donald Trump all think unpaid (mostly) minority student athletes should risk their lives for America’s favorite fall entertainment. (Politico)
COVID-19 is continuing to surge in Georgia. There were 22,591 confirmed cases in the past week. However, that’s not stopping Atlanta suburb, Peachtree Corners. It’s holding summer concerts! Imagine dying because you saw the 1980s cover band, Electric Avenue. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Seattle performing artist Dimitri Woods thinks this specific moment of racial reckoning “feels different.” (Seattle Times)
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to send kids back to school, but he understands that might mean closing pubs and restaurants. Despite the hair, it’s almost like he’s a functioning adult. (The New York Times)
Fewer people are flying now because of the pandemic, but those who do are packing heat. The rate of passengers trying to carry weapons through security tripled in July compared to the same month last year. (LA Times)
The president is actively sabotaging the post office so he can cheat his way to re-election, but the true victim in all this is Nikki Haley’s nephew, who didn’t promptly receive his birthday popcorn delivery. Haley called the manager on the Popcorn Factory in front of her tens of dozens of Twitter followers (OK, 663,000).
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