1. It is the next to last Monday of November. Thanksgiving is on Thursday. December begins next week. There are just over five weeks remaining in the crazy year that is called 2020. I believe that most of us will be happy to see it depart.
2. Family NFL Results:
Steelers (10-0) defeat Jaguars (1-9) 27-3
Cowboys (3-7) defeat Vikings (4-6) 31-28
Football Team (3-7) defeat Bengals (2-7-1) 20-9
Ravens (6-4) lose to Titans (7-3) 24-30
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| Squirrel Eating Pumpkin Elkridge, MD November 21, 2020 |
4. I had an enjoyable round of golf yesterday at Crofton. I posted my best score for 18 holes there. I can, however, do better. I still had a couple of "blow-up" holes.
5. This is a big holiday week. Whatever you do, be safe. Our family has significantly modified Thanksgiving based upon our recent COVID-19 experience.
6. After the Day of the Turkey, then the Christmas decorations can fill our senses with holiday escapism.
7. Holiday shopping this year will be very different. I will do the majority of my shopping form my chair.
8. COVID-19 has canceled a family tradition. There will be no Axis and Allies game on Black Friday.
9. Today in History. On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine Life is published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam's spillway by Margaret Bourke-White.
Life actually had its start earlier in the 20th century as a different kind of magazine: a weekly humor publication, not unlike today’s The New Yorker in its use of tart cartoons, humorous pieces and cultural reporting. When the original Life folded during the Great Depression, the influential American publisher Henry Luce bought the name and re-launched the magazine as a picture-based periodical on this day in 1936. By this time, Luce had already enjoyed great success as the publisher of Time, a weekly news magazine.
Trump Continues to Challenge Election as Options Dwindle - TheWall Street Journal
Trump Exits Open Skies Treaty, Moves to Discard Observation Planes - The Wall Street Journal
Biden Team, Pushing Quick Stimulus Deal, Prepares for Renewed Recession - The New York Times
Along Russia’s ‘Road of Bones,’ Relics of Suffering and Despair - The New York Times
Biden to unveil first Cabinet picks on Tuesday, envisions scaled-down inauguration - Reuters
Biggest Australian states reopen borders as coronavirus cases ease - Reuters
Dominion rep on Trump campaign claims: 'It’s physically impossible' to switch votes - Fox News
Pompeii ruins unearth 'master and slave' remains - Fox News
Well, in just a few weeks, we Americans are once again going to show the world the one thing that, more than any other, is the source of our strength. We'll go to the polls, and as a free people, we'll vote. This year we'll be casting ballots in many States for Senators, Governors, and other officials; and everywhere we'll be voting for a new House of Representatives. But just as important as how we vote is that we vote. Every vote cast on election day means that we the people have taken a hand in shaping our nation's future. Every time we vote we're grabbing a hold of a lifeline that's 3,000 miles long and more than two centuries old and, with millions of others, helping to pull America forward into the future. Yes, every time we vote we're standing up, side by side, with the Founding Fathers, with the men of Valley Forge, with patriots and pioneers throughout our history, with all those who dedicated their lives to making this a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people. Every time we vote we help to make America stronger.
I'm sure you've heard friends say, "Oh, my vote won't matter.'' Well, the next time someone says that to you, I hope you'll remember that time and again, over the years, elections have turned on a handful of ballots. In 1960 President Kennedy was elected by a margin of just one vote in each precinct around the nation. In 1976 the Presidential election turned on two States: one was won by six votes a precinct; the other by only a single vote a precinct. And in the last 26 years more than 50 U.S. Senate and House races have been won by fewer than a thousand votes. But even when elections aren't that close, your ballot counts, because in voting, you're accepting your part in the greatest decisionmaking body the world has ever known, the American electorate. And as someone who's stayed up late on many election nights waiting to hear how the American people had decided, I can tell you that from where I sit -- whether elections are close or not -- every vote is important.
Reagan Address to the Nation on Voter Participation, October 18. 1986
-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD
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