ALDOUS WAS WRONG

Correct me if I'm wrong, but...

Weren't we supposed to be getting SOMA when things got this messed up?

Asking for someone currently standing in the SOMA line...

JUSTICE FOR ALL...NOT JUST WHITE JUSTICE

#pups4peace

Ken-Dogger: Morning Barrister, what is with the outfit?
Barrister: Prepping for the Impeachment.
KD: Going over the evidence and building your argument?
B: Yep, but Lady G doesn’t want full testimony of the seditionists.
KD: A trial without evidence or testimony?
B: Yes, it’s a new effort by some in America, limited justice is the right justice.
KD: No, limited justice is WHITE JUSTICE…
B: Yes, and we’re working for Justice for All.

#pups4peace

Ken-Dogger: Hey Irish, tell me something…
Irish: Okay, Dogger, shoot…
KD: Dogs are good with their senses, they seem to always follow ‘em, why is that?
I: We sense with our total beings, we’re integrated. Why do you ask?
KD: Another senseless act last night, 9 dead in Vegas.
I: You gotta embrace integration Bro…It makes sense when it’s all put together.
KD: And hopefully, in the putting together, peeps don’t suffer.
I: There’s always suffering, it doesn’t need to be senseless.

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No—not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you're hoping.

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GIVING CLUES...I'm a Helper

#minhowlkinmoments

Decision-Making 101 from The Morning Brew...

You flip a coin and, while the coin is in the air, observe which outcome you’re rooting for. In that way you can discover the option you really want for yourself.

I’ll turn it over to Danish polymath Piet Hein, who wrote this lovely poem on the subject:

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Morning Peeps,

I see @Mandypar is off getting some O work...

If you're in the USA and you travel, please ensure you visit one of the MIGHTY FIVE in Utah.

@catlynne333 when your brain is in disorder mode, order threatens

Championship teams win Championship games; by that I mean...you gotta know how to win big games when they truly count. This Super Bowl will see Championship teams compete.

The group, which has dubbed itself "God's Army," believes they are "on a mission to stand up against the 'globalists' who they claim are conspiring to keep U.S. borders open and destroy the country."

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https://popular.info/p/the-second-insurrection

The USA...Home to an infinite number of RW Crazies...

Judd L on the Border 'crisis'

Claiming that Texas has a duty to ignore the authority of the federal government unsurprisingly attracts dangerous extremists. "A trucker convoy of 'patriots' is heading to the U.S. border with Mexico next week," Vice reports.

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1,500. Matt Damon = MD

2,000. Marilyn Monroe = MM

110. Charles Xavier = CX

400. Cameron Diaz = CD

200. Cris Collinsworth = CC

550. Dave Lozo = DL

He famously “slides” into the broadcasting booth while calling Sunday Night Football games with Mike Tirico.

The writer responsible for many of the jokes in this newsletter.

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Example: The TV late-night host who retired from his gig in 2014.

Answer: 550. David Letterman = DL

The actor who delivered the line, “How do ya like them apples?”

The 20th-century Hollywood star whose life was chronicled (many say not well) in the film Blonde

The founder of the X-Men

The only member of Charlie’s Angels (the 2000 film version) who would work in this category

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Roman numeral trivia
With the Super Bowl LVIII matchup set, let’s test your knowledge of Roman numerals. Today’s quiz borrows from an epic Jeopardy! category from 2014: “Initials to Roman Numerals to Numbers.”

How it works: You’ll be given a clue that’ll lead to a person’s name. Their initials will form a Roman numeral that can be translated into a regular number. The final answer is that number.

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S: Morning Brew

Black History Month kicks off with the start of February on Thursday.

Fed meeting and jobs report: As if those earnings won’t keep Wall Street on its toes, the Fed will wrap up its first meeting of the year on Wednesday and the January jobs report will drop on Friday. Chair Jerome Powell will almost certainly keep interest rates unchanged for now, but investors are keen to hear whether he predicts a rate cut in March. On the jobs front, US employers are expected to have continued hiring briskly in January, despite the wave of high-profile layoff announcements.

Pity Usher—the Super Bowl’s halftime performer will likely be upstaged by Taylor Swift, whose relationship with Travis Kelce will drive much of the hype over the next two weeks. American Airlines previewed what’s to come by unveiling new direct flights between Kansas City and host city Las Vegas for the game. One is numbered 1989, the other, 87.

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S: Morning Brew

The Super Bowl will be red (Taylor’s version). The Kansas City Chiefs will face the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl on Feb. 11 after defeating the Ravens and Lions, respectively, in Sunday’s NFL championship games. The Chiefs are aiming to become the first team since the 2004 Patriots to repeat as Super Bowl champs; it’s also their fourth Super Bowl appearance in the last five years.

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Markets: We’re running out of metaphors to describe how Big Tech is propping up the stock market, so today let’s go with Atlas, the Titan who is condemned for eternity to hold up the heavens. Because of tech—and the tech industry exclusively—the S&P 500 posted a string of record highs last week. The 10 other sectors in the index are all trading an average of 15% below their all-time highs, per the WSJ.

S: Morning Brew

For years, it had been rumored that Mona Lisa's 'smirk' was due to the fact she saw, Leonardo's assistant, Bun Man frontally exposed just prior to sitting for the portrait and this was why she was smirking.

Mr. Purple told Bun Man, "This clears it up for me too, I always thought there was a lot of truth in that smirk..."

Bun Man picked up his shattered ego and lived to expose another day...

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