Kathy sokamnouay obituary

I re-read Kathleen's obituary and the phrase "long battle with cancer" jumped out at me. Is it possible that the "my sister" / "catatonic" phone call Maura received was, if not a straight up cancer diagnosis that Kathy was sharing with her, but perhaps Kathleen sharing that she was having some health issues and going to get some early tests done to screen for cancer, or something along those lines?

For clarity I consider a 22 season any housewives season that aired their last episode this year. Here’s my ranking:

1. RHOSLC 2 (A+) - This is my new favourite housewives season of all time. I just love it I think it’s perfection from start to finish. Jen’s apology tour, Meredith v Jen in one of my fav ridiculous storylines Vagina-gate, Lisa introducing hellspawn Angie H who turns on her within the same episode, Mary vs the world, the fucking CULT storyline, the Shah-rest, Mary’s problematic comments, everyone thinking Meredith called the feds and one of the greatest cast trips of all time in Zion. Just amazing tv.
   
2. RHONJ 12 (A-) - This might be unpopular because I think the general consensus is that the dynamics are getting stale but I love me some NJ. It drags a little when it solely becomes focused on Marge v Tre but I was still entertained by their feud. The first half gives so much: Tre in her Brooks era with Marge as MKE, Bill’s affair coming out in the attempted Jen Aydin takedown, the Gorga/Giudice feud going inter generational, Jackie v Dolores, the clusterfuck at Jen’s shore house and then one of the best reunions in recent memory (excluding Potomac’s they always give).
   
3. RHOA 14 (A-) - Maybe another unpopular opinion but I really enjoy this season. It’s not remarkable by any means but I love the RHOA ladies and thought the season felt really fresh like the start of a new era. Marlo finally gets her peach, Ralph is still the worst, Sheree vs Drew in assistant-gate, Kenya v Marlo round 2746474, Sheree getting stood up by prison bae, Kandi v Marlo, thirsty Sanya v Drew, the Blue Ridge trip becoming I think the only cast trip to get cut short, “bitch I’m worldwide”, Kenya humbling Sanya and then finally a full circle moment with the She By Sheree fashion show. For RHOA standards the reunion wasn’t great but I still liked it.
   
4. RHOBH 12 (A-) - If it were shorter it would probably be higher but it’s where it is because it’s longer than it needs to be and the middle is excruciatingly boring. Plus the girls need to stop being lazy and only using Sutton to secure their moments. Other than those gripes it’s a good season. The break in, Elton-gate, Crystal v Kyle, Lois’ death, Dark-gate, lizard lady v Sutton, Erika being poor, Erika in her Kim alcoholic era, Garcelle v Erika, homeless not toothless, Erika showing her true colours in Aspen and the potentially dynamic shifting Rinna spearheaded Kathy takedown. I thought the reunion was good too other than Andy being a poor host and brushing over important things. In terms of the mess though for BH I thought it was good.
   
5. RHOM 4 (A-) - Everyone will probably think this is sacrilege but I think I was overexcited for MIA to come back and incorrectly assumed they’d come back with the level of mess S2 & S3 had. They didn’t. That being said still love the season. It gave us Alexia’s wedding plans, Alexia’s torn family, Larsa selling feet pics on onlyfans, Julia’s heartbreaking backstory, Adriana v Guerdy, Nicole trying to rekindle with her father, Marysol + Alexia + Larsa v Nicole, Kanye West’s penis gate and of course Alexia’s mom’s tragic death.
   
6. RHOC 16 (A-) - My high hopes for this season were misplaced. A- is probably too generous but as it was airing i for the most part was entertained and kept up to date. The middle is boring af. Jen was a flop. Noella was the saving grace but even she isn’t an ideal housewife tbh. It gave us the return of Heather which I loved tbh, Nicole’s lawsuit against the Dubrow’s blowing up Heather + Shannon’s rekindled friendship, Shannon v Gina, Jen v Noella in insta tag-gate, Emily being the new bone carrier, Noella alleging Heather abused the crew, a stack of vagina’s, the highlight of the season with the Aspen trip and the reunion’s good but OC imo is one of the stronger franchises for reunions.
   
7. RHOD S1 (B) - I loved the first episode but it all went downhill from there to the point where I probably wouldn’t bat an eye if there wasn’t a s2. Though I would miss Chanel Ayan.
   

If I was to include the currently airing seasons that are going into 2023 however…

1. RHOSLC S3 (so far A-) - still my no. 1 which will probs shock y’all as for some reason s3 is not boding well with a lot of you. I’ve been unsure whether I’m liking SLC or Potomac more right now but I’m settling on SLC because the trips are kinda edging out the P for me. It’s given us the aftermath of the hot mic, Whitney leaving the Mormon church, Whitney’s hilling journey, Arizona in which Lisa is outed for maybe maybe not sucking d for courtside seats, Jen preparing for her trial, the destruction of bad weather, a choir, the tweet of an obituary, a househusband making a finsta account and this San Diego trip is the unbridled chaos I’ve come to love from SLC. Since s2 my love for this franchise is growing and growing it’s a magical blend of BH’s high stakes scandal and NY’s absurdity and comedy. I also think it’s interesting to view this franchise as existing in a world after housewives has become a phenomenon and how that makes it different from the way the other franchises started. This season is truly one of the most incomprehensible, bizarre seasons of reality television I’ve ever seen and tbh I’m loving every second.
   
2. RHOP S7 (so far A-) - The girls from the P don’t disappoint they’re bringing it yet again. Everyone’s clocked in and there’s a lot of storylines and interesting dynamics at play. However, the Chris storyline is grating on me quite a bit at this point and I also have no interest in this Mia/Jacqueline storyline they’re trying to push right now. In only half the season we’ve gotten the Darby divorce, the mystery of Mia’s illness, Charrisse’s return, Patricia being released upon us yet again, the Chris allegations, Robyn v Wendy, Candiace v Ashley and the amazing Miami trip with the martini toss. I’m patiently waiting for all the drama surrounding Karen that got shown in the midseason trailer. The Grand Dame is back baby!
   
3. RHOM 5 (so far A-) - I’m so crazy obsessed with this season. The cast has gelled so nicely and everything just feels right. The drama is heating UP. I’m invested in these women and their lives. In only 5 episodes we’ve seen Guerdy + Alexia’s tiff that has yet to even blow up, former besties turning enemies in Lisa v Larsa, Kiki being the new bone carrier, Julia’s strained marriage, the beginnings of the Hochstein divorce saga, Alexia finally getting a glamorous wedding party, Adriana’s potentially married wedding date, Marysol going full alcoholic, the friend’s of in general all being hilarious and the fucking hot mic. I cannot wait for the rest of this season. It’s giving vintage housewives in the best way.
   
4. RHONJ 12 (A-)
   
5. RHOA 14 (A-)
   
6. RHOBH 12 (A-)
   
7. RHOC 16 (A-)
   
8. RHOD 1 (B)
   

1. Paul McCartney was one of the few people who knew Taylor Swift was dropping Evermore, her second surprise album, in December 2020. "I did the Rolling Stone cover with Taylor Swift, and she just emailed me recently, and she said, 'I wasn’t telling anyone, but I’ve got another album,'" McCartney said during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show. The issue? McCartney's latest album was slated for Dec. 10, which was the same date Taylor was envisioning for Evermore. McCartney said he gave Taylor her date, which was chosen to coincide with her Dec. 13 birthday. "People do keep out of each other’s way. It’s a nice thing to do," he said. Evermore dropped on Dec. 10, and McCartney III released the following week.
2. The depiction of the mafia in HBO's The Sopranos was allegedly so accurate that real members of the mafia were convinced that the showrunners had been spying on them. In an oral history of the show published in Vanity Fair, Terence Winter, an executive producer and writer on the show, said that an FBI agent told him that on Monday mornings after the show would air, all the agents could talk about was the show. "Then they would listen to the wiretaps from that weekend, and it was all mob guys talking about The Sopranos, having the same conversation about the show, but always from the flip side," he said. "We would hear back that real wise guys used to think that we had somebody on the inside. They couldn’t believe how accurate the show was."
3. Some consider keeping your fish in a fishbowl a form of animal cruelty. In fact, some manufacturers refuse to sell fishbowls, and they tell pet owners to opt for fish tanks instead because the majority of fishbowls don't allow for adequate filtration and oxygenation. "Turning round and round in a small bowl drives fish crazy and kills them quickly,” Matthieu Lambeaux, the CEO of a French aquarium manufacturer, said. Goldfish can actually live for up to 30 years in a proper environment but often die in a matter of weeks or months when kept in a circular bowl.
4. In September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill, a married couple, were driving back to their home in New Hampshire from a camping trip in Canada when they claimed they had been abducted by aliens. The Hills reported seeing lights in the sky before allegedly witnessing a spacecraft full of "bipedal humanoid creatures" land in a nearby field. Following the landing, the Hills said they had no recollection of the next few hours. When the couple returned home, they said they noticed several alarming changes: Betty's dress was allegedly stained and torn, Barney's shoes were scraped, and the leather strap of their binoculars was destroyed.
5. Don Cheadle had a major role in Ocean's Eleven, but don't try to look for him in the credits! Cheadle asked for top billing in the film alongside costars Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and George Clooney. After all, Cheadle had just starred in Traffic, which had won the Oscar for Best Directing by Steven Soderbergh, who was also directing Ocean's Eleven. Cheadle's request was denied, so he allegedly told the filmmakers to take his name off the movie entirely. Cheadle ended up returning for Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen and was able to negotiate top billing for each film.
6. New York City's Central Park covers about 843 acres in the center of Manhattan, which makes it larger than both Monaco and Vatican City. Monaco, which clocks in at 0.78 square miles, is about three-fifths the size of Central Park, while Vatican City, coming in at only 0.2 square miles, is about one-eighth the size of the park.
7. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was leaving an event at the Washington Hilton when several shots were fired. Reagan was struck by a bullet that ricocheted off a limousine and lodged under his left armpit. Three other officials were injured in the assassination attempt. John Hinckley was immediately taken into custody but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Following his trial, he spent three decades at a mental hospital until he was released in June 2022. Reagan's injuries went unnoticed until he began to cough up blood on the ride back to the White House, prompting a pivot to the emergency room.
8. Tiger beetles run so fast that they actually temporarily blind themselves. The beetles run at an estimated 53.87 body lengths per second, a speed at which their eyes can no longer gather enough light to see. This proves problematic when they're trying to track down prey because it makes it difficult for the beetles to keep track of their prey's location.
9. Imagine seeing Princess Diana on the big screen! According to Kevin Costner, this was nearly a reality. Following the success of The Bodyguard, which starred Whitney Houston as a singer who falls for the bodyguard (played by Costner) hired to protect her from a mysterious stalker, Costner said that he approached Princess Diana about appearing in a sequel to the film. "The studio liked the idea of doing a Bodyguard 2 [with Princess Diana] in the same kind of capacity as Whitney," Costner told PeopleTV. "Nobody really knew that for about a year."
10. In 2018, 13-year-old Jaequan Faulkner set up a hot dog stand in front of his house in Minnesota to make money to buy new school clothes. Soon after Mr. Faulkner's Old Fashioned Hot Dogs opened for business, someone complained about the stand to the health department, citing improper food handling practices. Instead of closing down his hot dog stand, the Minnesota Department of Health helped Faulkner get his hot dog stand up to code to allow him to stay open. A few employees even paid the $87 permit necessary for the operation to ensure Faulkner could continue running his business.
11. During the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara, who was then the Secretary of Defense, started Project 100,000, an initiative to get more men to fight in the war even though they received low scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, which determines basic eligibility for military service. President Lyndon B. Johnson had recently debuted his War on Poverty initiative, which provided benefits for military veterans. McNamara, who was trying to find new ways to boost the number of soldiers in Vietnam, believed recruitment standards could be lowered and thought that the benefits of programs for veterans could entice these men to fight.
12. Steve Irwin, who charmed audiences as the Crocodile Hunter until he was killed by a stingray in 2006, said the only animal he was scared of working with was the parrot. "For some reason, parrots have to bite me," he told Scientific American in 2001. "That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites."
13. After Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins returned from their historic moon landing in 1969, they immediately were sent into a 21-day quarantine. The trip to the moon marked the first time a human had interacted with another celestial body, and NASA was worried that the astronauts had been potentially exposed to harmful bacteria or unknown dangerous elements.
14. The corpse lily, or carrion flower, is the largest flower in the world. The flower measures more than three feet across and can weigh up to 15 pounds. The corpse lily got its name from its scent, which closely resembles that of decaying flesh in order to attract flies.
15. The NCAA, the governing body for collegiate athletes, has a hefty 400+-page rulebook full of some shockingly specific rules. For example, the NCAA said that student athletes with a full scholarship were not allowed to put cream cheese or any type of spread on a bagel. Why? The NCAA believed that putting a spread on a bagel counted as a meal. Athletes on a full scholarship were only allowed three meals a day, so the NCAA banned bagels adorned with a spread so it wouldn't count as a meal, but a mere snack. The rule was eliminated in 2013 after being widely criticized.
16. If you've ever wondered exactly who types all of those names and numbers in the Yellow Pages, ask Dustin Hoffman! The acclaimed actor moved to New York City in the early 1960s to become an actor, and he took on a series of odd jobs before hitting it big. Hoffman said he did everything from working at coat checks to stringing flowers onto Hawaiian leis. Hoffman also said he worked as a typist for the Yellow Pages, where he was allegedly the only man on the staff with over 80 women. "I’d do any job anywhere," he told Vanity Fair. "I had no shame."
17. When working on a screenplay, beloved 1980s teen movie writer John Hughes would allegedly write for 20 hours at a time, and he would have a first draft finished in a few days. According to ScreenRant, Hughes wrote The Breakfast Club over a single weekend in July 1982. One of the most famous moments from the movie actually had no script at all. The scene where the entire cast gathers to discuss the real reasons why they've all landed in detention was almost completely improvised, with the entire cast making up each reason on the spot.
18. TLC fans owe NASA a major thank you! The channel was founded in 1972 by NASA and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. It was meant to be a network full of educational and instructional programming, and NASA agreed to distribute the channel for free via satellite. In 1991, Discovery purchased TLC. By the mid-1990s, they began infusing reality programming. In 1998, they officially dropped "The Learning Channel" name and began tailoring their programming to appeal to "moms and housewives," morphing into its current form as the home of shows like 90 Day Fiancé and 1,000-Lb. Sisters.
19. In 1971, Coca-Cola debuted a new ad campaign featuring a jingle called "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke." The idea for the song originated during a flight to London. Bill Backer, the creative director on the Coca-Cola advertising account, was en route to London to meet with Billy Davis, the music director for the Coca-Cola ads, and a team of British songwriters to come up with a new song for the brand's next ad campaign. There was so much fog in London that Backer's plane had to land in Ireland. Passengers were told to stay near the airport, which reportedly left many of them irate. By the next day, he recalled seeing many of the angry passengers sitting together in the airport's café, chatting and laughing over bottles of Coca-Cola.
20. In 1899, Morgan Robertson published a novel called Futility: or, the Wreck of the Titan. The novel featured a colossal ship called the Titan, which was billed as unsinkable. In the book, the Titan sinks on a cold April night during its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Sound familiar? After the Titanic sank in 1912, people began drawing comparisons between the real-life tragedy and the fictional tale portrayed in the novel. While some believe that Robertson's novel is just an eerie coincidence, others are convinced that there is a spiritual explanation for it. To make things even creepier, Robertson had also written a short story that closely mirrored the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Robertson's story had been published in 1914, almost 30 years before the bombing.
21. Naomi Parker Fraley was the inspiration for the iconic Rosie the Riveter posters that became a symbol for women who worked in factories during World War II. The poster was originally displayed in Westinghouse Electric Corporation plants in 1943. It actually was not intended to be seen by the public, and instead was part of a campaign to deter absenteeism from the women working in the plant. In the 1980s, the poster resurfaced and soon became an icon for feminism. Soon, the Rosie the Riveter moniker became associated with the poster. During this time, several women came forward claiming they were the inspiration behind the image.
22. There is a theory that a fire onboard the Titanic contributed to the ship's tragic sinking. In photos from the shipyard taken about a week before the Titanic left for its maiden voyage, there are black streaks running along the ship's hull, in the same area where the ship was later gouged by an iceberg. Experts believe that the marks were the result of a fire that had been burning in the boiler room for about 10 days, and think that it might have significantly weakened the ship's infrastructure, potentially worsening the damage from the ship's fatal collision.
23. In 1974, actor Jack Nicholson learned that the woman he believed to be his sister was actually his mother, and that the woman he thought was his actual mother was his grandmother. A reporter for Time magazine was preparing for an interview with Nicholson to promote the movie Chinatown when he came across the shocking discovery, and called Nicholson to ask him if he knew that his "sister" was actually his mother. Nicholson was able to verify the story and told reporters that he was "stunned," but asked them to not report the findings in the article.
24. When shopping carts first made their debut in the 1930s, they were pretty unpopular. Many women claimed they looked too much like a baby carriage, while men thought pushing a cart was too feminine and were worried they would be seen as weak. Grocers hired actors to push carts around their stores and fill them up to demonstrate how useful they were, and soon, shopping carts became widely used.
25. Before becoming the classic that it is today, Back to the Future was rejected over 40 times, with one of the most notable rejections coming from Disney. In the movie, Marty McFly time travels from 1985 to 1955 and is tasked with ensuring his parents meet and get together, only to find the plan going incredibly wrong when Marty's mother inadvertently ends up falling for him. Screenwriter Bob Gale said that Disney believed the movie was far too risqué for their family-oriented audiences.
26. Blue whales are not only the largest animal in the ocean, but the biggest animals to ever live on Earth. They're even larger than all known dinosaurs. A blue whale's heart weighs about 1,000 pounds, which is the average weight of a cow.
27. When World War II broke out in 1939, Queen Elizabeth II (then known as Princess Elizabeth), and her sister Princess Margaret were evacuated from Buckingham Palace and sent to Windsor Castle. During this time, many British children were evacuated from densely populated areas. In an effort to appeal to these children, Princess Elizabeth, who was 14 years old at the time, gave her first radio address as part of the BBC's Children's Hour. "My sister Margaret Rose and I feel so much for you, as we know from experience what it means to be away from those you love most of all," she said. "To you living in new surroundings, we send a message of true sympathy, and at the same time, we would like to thank the kind people who have welcomed you to their homes in the country.”
28. The Brady Bunch was developed in 1966 after creator Sherwood Schwartz, fresh off of the success of Gilligan's Island, read an article in the LA Times claiming that over 30% of marriages involved children from previous marriages, and decided to create a show that explored blended families. Despite the fact that the entire premise of the show centered around a family with children from previous marriages, the series never revealed what happened to Carol Brady's first husband.
29. In 1955, Jack Ryan, an engineer at Raytheon, was lured away from his role designing guided missile systems by Ruth Handler, who wanted him to come work at Mattel, her new toy company. Ryan agreed and became the head of research and development. While working at Mattel, Ryan designed and patented the original Barbie doll. Ryan's contract entitled him to 1.5% of royalties brought in from the sales of the doll. In 1980, he sued Mattel for nonpayment of millions in royalties and ended his relationship with the company. Ryan was also responsible for the design behind Hot Wheels cars.
30. Contaminated water at the White House is believed to be responsible for not only the deaths of three presidents, but the death of Willie Lincoln, one of Abraham Lincoln's sons. You've probably heard Washington, DC be referred to as a swamp, which is a nod to not only the politics of the nation's capital, but the fact that Washington was actually built on a swamp. When John Adams moved into the White House in 1800, it was allegedly incredibly damp and humid inside at all times.
31. After physicist Niels Bohr won the Nobel Prize in 1922, the Carlsberg beer company, located in Copenhagen, gifted him a house located directly next to their brewery. The house contained a direct pipeline to the brewery, so Bohr could pour himself a beer on tap right from the comfort of his own home. Although Carlsberg is a beer company, they also had a passion for science, and even developed a laboratory to experiment with brewing.
32. While some might assume that "Mother Mary" from the Beatles' "Let It Be" is the Virgin Mary, the song is actually a sweet ode to Paul McCartney's mother. McCartney said that he was going through a period of stress and anxiety due to the band's overwhelming fame and popularity when he had a dream in which his mother, Mary, who died when McCartney was 14 years old, appeared. "She was reassuring me, saying, 'It’s going to be ok, just let it be.' It felt so great. She gave me positive words," he said during a Carpool Karaoke segment. "So I wrote the song 'Let It Be' out of positivity."
33. Although Disney had been in the animation business for over 60 years, The Lion King was actually the first original Disney animated movie that hadn't been adapted from any source material. While working on the movie, animators went to the University of California’s Field Station for Behavioral Research to observe hyenas. The visit was granted under one condition: The filmmaker would not portray the hyenas in a negative light. When the movie came out in 1994, the biologists were allegedly furious when they saw that hyenas were villains in the movie.
34. The only time foreign national anthems are typically played at Buckingham Palace is during visits by foreign dignitaries, but Queen Elizabeth II made an exception after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. On September 13, 2001, Queen Elizabeth II ordered the Bands of the Household Division to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" to show solidarity to the United States. This marked the first time in 600 years that a foreign national anthem was played at Buckingham Palace outside of a state visit.
35. In 1992, a group of best-selling authors and creatives teamed up to form a band called the Rock Bottom Remainders. Notable members included authors Stephen King, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and The Simpsons creator, Matt Groening. The group was started by book publicist Kathi Kamen Goldmark. "In the fine rock & roll tradition, the Rock Bottom Remainders were conceived in a car," Goldmark said. "As a semi-pro musician with a day job in book publicity, I spend a lot of time driving touring authors around San Francisco. … I decided to form a band of authors!"
36. During the 19th century, there was a push to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. Southern states saw this as a "culture war," designed to force Northern values on Southern states, and refused to accept it. Some Southerners even saw pumpkin pie as an anti-slavery symbol. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday to promote unity, but some Southern states still refused to participate. In the 1880s, Texas still refused to celebrate Thanksgiving, while other Southern states changed the date because they didn't want to participate in Lincoln's wish for "national unity." Some Southerners began to change the traditional Thanksgiving food to represent their own culture and values. In 1941, Congress officially ruled that Thanksgiving was a national holiday.
37. Last week, I saw this tweet that said recently re-elected senator Chuck Grassley, who was born in 1933, is older than chocolate chip cookies. This little factoid made me extremely curious about the story behind the invention of one of the world's most beloved desserts. It all began with Ruth Wakefield and her husband, who owned the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts. Ruth made all of the food for the inn's guests.
38. In 1989, a man bought a picture frame at a flea market in Pennsylvania for $4. When he took the print home, he removed the painting from the frame and found a print of the Declaration of Independence inside. The man showed it to a friend, who encouraged him to get the print appraised. Experts found that the print was actually one of 24 copies of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence. In 1991, the printing sold for $2.42 million at auction.
39. In 2000, Thad Roberts, a 23-year-old recent college graduate, nabbed a coveted internship at NASA. Roberts allegedly declared that he was going to be the first human to reach Mars. During the moon landing in 1969, astronauts collected moon rocks to bring back to study. Upon their return, the rocks were sealed to prevent contamination. In 2002, while working at NASA, Roberts and two other interns stole some of the moon rocks from a safe in the Johnson Space Center lab in Houston. Roberts and his accomplices, Tiffany Fowler, who was then 22, and Shae Saur, who was 19, then put the stolen rocks up for sale on the website for the Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium.
40. The nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" is believed to have a pretty dark origin story. The rhyme is supposedly about three Protestant bishops — Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer — who attempted to overthrow Queen Mary I of England, also known as Bloody Mary. Mary, who was Catholic, executed hundreds of Protestants during her five-year reign. The men were burned at the stake when their overthrow attempt was revealed. Historians believe that the "blind mice" represent the men's religious beliefs.
41. Effa Manley broke barriers in the sports world by becoming the first female owner of a professional sports team. Manley, who grew up in Philadelphia, moved to New York City, where she frequently attended Yankees games. During this time, Manley was involved in social causes and picketed in a campaign for local businesses to hire Black workers. In 1932, Manley attended a World Series game at Yankee Stadium, where she met her husband Abe, who was well-known in the baseball industry.
42. In 2001, the band KISS unveiled the world's first-ever fully-endorsed coffin, which was named the KISS Kasket (not gonna lie, it's pretty clever). Band member Gene Simmons encouraged people to use it as a cooler before death. "You can have your last ride with your favorite band. But while you’re living, you can have a cold one," he said. "Why not have a daily use for the caskets? Why not watch your favorite ball game on TV, invite your friends over and open the Kasket to get a drink?" Several KISS super fans were eventually buried in the caskets, including “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, a member of the band Pantera. Abbott had been murdered by a fan during a concert in 2004, and had requested the coffin in his will. Simmons ended up donating the coffin prototype to Abbott's family.
43. On August 9, 1996, filming on Titanic took a turn when nearly 80 members of the cast and crew were hospitalized after eating clam chowder. While many initially believed that they had food poisoning, a newspaper in Nova Scotia, where the scenes were being filmed, reported that the chowder had actually been mysteriously laced with PCP. Both actor Bill Paxton and director James Cameron were among those who ate the chowder.
44. The world's oldest living bird is a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, who is at least 70 years old. Wisdom was first identified and tagged in 1956. She returns to the same nest every year on Midway Atoll in Hawaii, home to the largest colony of albatrosses, to deliver her chicks. Biologists estimate that Wisdom has delivered between 30 and 36 chicks in her lifetime, including one most recently in 2021.
45. While you probably already knew the basics of President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination in Dallas, I dug up some surprising details from the tragedy that might not be as widely known. First Lady Jackie Kennedy normally did not travel with the president for political trips but decided to accompany him on his visit to Texas. CBS was the first TV station to break in with the news, just 10 minutes after Kennedy had been shot. After that, all three networks — CBS, NBC, and ABC — aired nothing but coverage of the assassination for four straight days. It became the longest uninterrupted news event until the TV coverage of 9/11.
46. Queen Elizabeth II refused to let uncomfortable shoes ruin her day. Instead, Angela Kelly, the Queen's stylist, would purportedly first wear the Queen's shoes to break them in. The breaking-in period involved some very specific rules: Kelly was required to wear a pair of beige ankle socks and was only allowed to walk on carpet while preparing the shoes. "The Queen has very little time to herself and not time to wear in her own shoes, and as we share the same shoe size it makes the most sense this way," Kelly wrote in her book, The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe.
47. If you think you're into astrology, I'm pretty sure Grace Kelly has you beat! On Saturday, November 15, 1969, Kelly, the American actor who later became the Princess of Monaco, threw the "Scorpion Ball," a Scorpio-only bash. The Scorpion Ball served as Kelly's 40th birthday party, and the guest list was comprised of only Scorpios or plus-ones who were married to Scorpios. Notable attendees included actors Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor was only allowed to come to the party because her then-husband, Richard Burton, was a Scorpio.
48. Elements of Yoda were modeled off Albert Einstein. Stuart Freeborn, a special effects artist who worked as a makeup supervisor on Star Wars, took inspiration for the beloved character after spotting an Albert Einstein poster in an office. "The wrinkles around Einstein's eyes somehow got worked into the Yoda design," special effects artist Nick Maley said. "Over the course of this evolutionary process, Yoda slowly changed from a comparatively spritely, tall, skinny, grasshopper kind of character into the old wise-spirited gnome that we all know today." Freeborn also reportedly took inspiration from his own face when designing Yoda's other traits.
49. Every November, the White House holds a presidential turkey pardon to spare a live turkey from becoming a family's Thanksgiving dinner. So, how did this tradition start? In 1863, Abraham Lincoln's son Tad allegedly got upset when he learned that the live turkey his family was going to eat for Christmas dinner was going to be killed. Lincoln reportedly spared the turkey's life to appease his son. From that point, people around the country began sending turkeys to the White House in hopes of it becoming the bird that would end up on the First Family's Thanksgiving table.
50. In 1900, thousands of spectators lined up to watch the annual Thanksgiving Day football game between Stanford and the University of California, known as "The Big Game." Many fans, most of whom were children, decided to climb onto the roof of a glassblowing factory overlooking the field to take in the game after the stands were full. James Davis, the factory's superintendent, was allegedly aware of the potential for people to climb on the roof and had reportedly been given six free tickets to the game so long as he kept people off of the roof. Soon, over 400 spectators had climbed onto the roof.
51. Turkey wasn't always the Thanksgiving food of choice in the White House. In 1926, president Calvin Coolidge received a raccoon that he and his family planned to eat for Thanksgiving dinner. When Coolidge saw the raccoon, he allegedly became smitten with it and decided that he was going to keep it as a pet. Others say that Coolidge had never eaten raccoon before, and was a little wary of trying it for the first time for Thanksgiving dinner, which is why he ultimately spared the animal's life.
52. Roses are one of the oldest living plants in the world. Archeologists have found rose fossils that date back 35 million years. Meanwhile, the world's oldest living rose clocks in at over 1,000 years old. The rose can be found growing on a wall in the Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany, and even survived a bomb during World War II.
53. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a holiday staple. The parade first started in 1924 and was held to promote the department store ahead of the Christmas season. It became a hit, drawing a crowd of nearly 250,000 people, so Macy's decided to make it an annual event. By 1927, the parade began incorporating balloons, with a rendering of Felix The Cat being the first-ever Macy's balloon. The issue? Macy's had no idea what to do with the helium-filled balloon once the parade was over. They decided to let it float into the air, where it eventually popped.
54. I personally could not imagine anyone but Julie Andrews playing Mary Poppins, and turns out, Walt Disney couldn't either. After Disney saw Andrews on Broadway in Camelot, he knew he wanted her to play the iconic role of Mary Poppins. When he first offered Andrews the role, she turned it down because she was pregnant. Disney decided to hold production on the film until Andrews was ready.
55. The iconic TV dinner actually originated due to a surplus of Thanksgiving turkey! In 1953, Gerry Thomas, a Swanson salesman, noticed that the company had over 260 tons of frozen turkey left over after Thanksgiving. The turkeys were kept in refrigerated railroad cars, which only worked when the trains were in motion. This allegedly sent Swanson executives in a "tailspin," as they had to keep the trains moving at all times while trying to figure out what to do with the surplus of turkeys.
56. Just two months before NASA launched Apollo 11 into space to reach the moon, the crew of the Apollo 10 performed a dress rehearsal, going through all of the steps required of reaching the moon without actually landing. There is a theory that NASA purposely under-fueled the Apollo 10 spacecraft to ensure that the crew didn't actually try to land on the moon. "Don’t give those guys an opportunity to land, ‘cause they might!" Eugene A. Cernan, the flight's lunar module pilot joked. The Apollo 10 crew successfully performed the dress rehearsal, paving the way for the historic moon landing just a few months later.
57. If you've ever wondered why Thanksgiving is now always held on the fourth Thursday of November, blame it on Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Prior to the 1940s, Thanksgiving had always been celebrated on the final Thursday of November. In 1939, it fell on November 30. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt felt that the relatively late Thanksgiving would shorten the Christmas shopping season too much, and decided to move the holiday up a week to Thursday, November 23.
58. No one is quite sure how the idea that black cats are bad luck originated. In fact, in Great Britain and Japan, black cats are believed to be symbols of good luck! There is evidence that people began linking black cats to the Devil during the Middle Ages. During the plague, people killed black cats, which turned out to be a bad idea, as the cats often killed the rodents that were spreading the disease. In later years, black cats became linked to witches.
59. On November 25, 1976, the Band performed The Last Waltz, their farewell concert that would later be made into a concert film by Martin Scorsese. The issue? The show landed on Thanksgiving Day. Despite the fact that the show landed on a holiday, the Band ended up selling over 5,400 tickets to the show. Included in the $25 ticket price was an entire Thanksgiving dinner for anyone who showed up to the concert before show time. They even hired a staff of 300 people to serve the meal. Talk about dinner and a show, right?
60. Despite being regarded as one of the most intelligent people of his time, Benjamin Franklin's formal schooling ended at just 10 years old. Franklin learned how to read at a young age and reportedly spent one year at grammar school. He then had a private tutor for a year before his formal education came to an end. By the time Franklin was 12, he had embarked on a printing apprenticeship under his older brother, where he eventually taught himself how to write.
61. And finally, Maya Lin was the Yale architecture student who created the winning design for the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Washington, DC. Lin's parents had both fled China during the Communist takeover in the 1940s and met once they moved to America. They raised Lin and her brother in Athens, Ohio, where they both worked as professors at Ohio University. Lin eventually headed to Yale to study architecture. She designed a blueprint for the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial as part of a class project. Lin eventually decided to submit her project to the design competition, where it beat out 1,200 other entries. She was just 21 years old.

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On July 10, 1984, Yvonne Tanner underwent a “safe and legal” abortion at the Inglewood facility in California. She immediately went into a coma and died on August 10, 1984 from the coma, infection and hypertension.
Inglewood had a horrifying record of dead clients and malpractice. Yvonne was one of 6 dead clients. The others were 17-year-old Kathy Murphy, Lynette Wallace, Cora Mae Lewis, Elizabeth Tsuji and Belinda Byrd. (Out of all of the dead clients, all were Black except for Kathy and Elizabeth. This has led some to suspect that racism played a role in the consistently horrific malpractice that Inglewood clients suffered.)
Inglewood was shut down by the state of California multiple times, but they just repeatedly reopened under a slightly different name. Inglewood General Hospital, Inglewood Hospital, Inglewood Women’s Hospital, Inglewood Women’s Clinic, West Coast Medical Group and West Coast Women’s Medical Group were all rebranding attempts by Inglewood after being shut down and reopening.
In May and June of 1984, inspection reports found the following violations at Inglewood:
• clients had complications, but “none” was listed in complication section of surgical log
•two surgical logs had no entries, just a blank under complications
• laminaria inserted by unlicensed staff
• consent for laminaria insertions not checked
•two patients’ physical exam forms and history forms contained different information
• unlicensed staff doing tentative gestational diagnosis
• no documentation of physician being notified of ruptured membranes
• one aide inserted laminaria, another was documented as doing it
• no documentation of observations of client having seizures
• patient charted as in acute distress and unable to get blood pressure, but distress not described and no reason given for inability to get blood pressure
• entries in charts written over and/or not dated
• no stripchart EKG in post-anesthesia recovery room
• written policy for flash autoclave not followed
• the facility was advertising outpatient and emergency services although it was not licensed to provide those services.
• inspectors found the surgical suite shelving laden with dust and lint, surgical suite ceiling ventilation grid encrusted with grayish material
• inspectors noted that Inglewood “does not have enough surgical equipment, nor does it appear that staff is properly sterilizing their equipment as evidenced by comparing the hospital’s surgical log with the number of surgical sets available.” They also noted that nurses, practitioner, and physician assistant lacked assignment of clinical privileges.
In the same year that Yvonne was killed, no fewer than 5 other clients sued for severe abortion injuries that almost killed them and at least three of those clients suffered permanent injuries/disabilities. (LA County Superior Court Case No SCC12219, LA County Superior Court Case No. SCC11519, LA County Superior Court Case No. C577956, LA County Superior Court Case No. WEC092527, LA County Superior Court Case No. WEC86705)
Had Inglewood been shut down and the staff truly held accountable for the deplorable inspection reports in May and June, Yvonne and her baby could have been spared. Yvonne’s surviving daughter Yonell Marie would have been spared the trauma of losing her mother and baby sibling.
Statement of Deficiencies and Plan of Correction 5/18/84 and 6/21/84
Yvonne’s death certificate
LA Superior Court Case No. C555261
Times-Picayune obituary clipping
California Death Index, 1940-1997 database, Yvonne Tanner, 14 Aug 1984; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
United States Social Security Death Index database, Yvonne Tanner, Aug 1984; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

Since Brendan Dassey’s confession is essentially useless, in terms of figuring out what exactly happened to Teresa Halbach, we’re going to attack this with deductions and see how much headway we can make. Some of the data here might be redundant - stuff that’s shown up in previous posts - but I find it’s helpful to have it all in one place.

Because...	We can deduce...
Steven Avery had a history of inappropriate contact with Halbach, including answering the door in nothing but a towel and reportedly showing Halbach a display on his wall of photos and names of phone numbers of women, and confidently told Halbach she would be up on his wall someday; and because another AutoTrader photographer, Kathy Willeford, reported Avery had invited her into his trailer and she’d declined…	…Steven Avery had a notably out-of-whack sense of what was appropriate when dealing with other people, particularly women. Setting aside whether a person should ever hit on someone whose livelihood depends on being friendly (spoilers: no), I can’t imagine any woman I’ve ever met responding positively to something like, “you’ll be one of the names on this wall someday.” I don’t really tend to incorporate much deep psychology into these analyses but I can’t help but notice this is not something a well-adjusted person would say to someone he ever hopes to have any kind of positive (much less intimate) contact with. We can also deduce from this that Steven Avery considered female AutoTrader photographers to be a viable potential source of sexual contact.
The person who called AutoTrader to set up the appointment at the Avery property on the 31st was Steven Avery; and because Avery’s voice was reported to sound unusual on the phone; and because he gave a name of “B. Janda” when making that appointment; and because he requested Teresa Halbach specifically to come out for this appointment; and because Avery used *67 when he called Teresa on the 31st, to hide his caller ID…	…The only person who could tell us why he tried these countermeasures (as in, did he have reason to think Halbach might be hesitant about it if she knew it was him?) is Avery himself, and he’s not going to, but from this we can plainly see signs of premeditation. I don’t know about you, but I myself don’t tend to spend time covering my tracks for offenses I haven’t even thought of committing yet. He was already behaving evasively. I can’t say whether or not he expected to be committing murder or sexual violence at that time, but he was already acting in a way different from what was usual. I’m also willing to suppose it’s not usual for someone to give only a first initial when making an appointment, as he did on the 31st. Which leads to the next deduction.
Steven Avery gave the name “B. Janda” when making the appointment to take photos to sell Barbara Janda’s vehicle…	…there’s basically no room for this to have been an innocent coincidence. Giving only a first initial to a person on the phone when making an appointment, especially when disguising your voice, is not normal and it’s not something a person would do without a reason. I believe the reason, in this case, is that Steven wanted to give a name that wasn’t his, that was tied to an actual location and a plausible pretense. And he gave only a first initial because otherwise he would have had to claim his name was Barbara. But all of this together represents a deviation from what was normal for Steven, and those don’t happen for no reason.
Steven Avery was showing signs of premeditation; and because he employed pretense to create an appointment under the name B. Janda; and because Avery and Janda had argued because Barbara didn’t even want to sell the vehicle in question…	…the entire point of this appointment was a ruse, and it looks like Avery set it up solely to get Halbach to come out. He put a lot of effort into an appointment for an AutoTrader photographer to take pictures of a vehicle its owner did not want to sell. He created a story with some plausibility, using a real name and having her take photos of a real vehicle.
The pattern of blood near the ignition of Teresa’s RAV 4 appears to have some shudder to it…	…Steven’s hands were probably shaking when he moved Teresa’s car. I’m not a blood spatter analyst but I see a shaking hand in that blood. But even if I’m wrong the shaking’s just a detail confirming what the presence of blood already tells us: The struggle had already happened and now he was clearing his tracks. She was already dead, or very close to it, when her car was moved.
There are no striations, gouges, or other marks from chains on the headboard or footboard of Steven Avery’s bed; and because the garage has significantly more blood than the bedroom; and because the bedroom doesn’t seem to have any of Teresa’s blood in it at all; and because the bedroom (and especially the bed) would be much harder to clean of bodily fluids than the garage; and because the only source for the idea of Teresa having been chained to Avery’s bed or stabbed in the bedroom is Brendan’s confession; and because Brendan’s confession is a slurry of self-contradictory nonsense…	…Teresa probably was not stabbed in the bedroom of Steven Avery’s trailer. In fact, since the only thing putting her there is a confession which contains no reliable facts as far as I can tell, there’s no particular reason to think she was ever in that bedroom at all on the 31st.
Paperwork from AutoTrader was found in Avery’s trailer; and because Avery had a cut on his hand he appears to have acquired before moving Teresa’s RAV 4; and because the last time anyone saw her alive, she was walking towards Avery’s trailer; and because Teresa probably was not stabbed in the bedroom of Steven Avery’s bedroom; and because she had two perimortem gunshot wounds to the back of her head; and because Teresa’s blood and some hair were found in the back of the RAV 4; and because her blood was found in the garage, along with eleven shell casings…	…Teresa probably was initially attacked either in Avery’s trailer, or possibly the garage. Avery didn’t have a cut earlier in the day, and we can match the cut on his hand to the blood near the ignition of the RAV 4, meaning he likely acquired it during a struggle with her. I mean, it’s not impossible he coincidentally picked up a gouge on his hand at around the same time a woman was murdered on his property but, to put it mildly, I doubt it. I’m extrapolating a little here but even outside of Brendan’s confession, her death feels intimate - the majority of it probably happened sequentially in one place. Otherwise they’re both zipping around this huge property and I think that all was cleanup.
Knife marks were found on Halbach’s bones; and because her remains were found in different areas (burn pits and burn barrels)…	…Avery likely dismembered Ms. Halbach’s remains prior to burning.
The area of the Avery compound got some traffic, though not a whole lot, and was in a rural area; and because it appears Teresa wound up inside Avery’s garage at some point after being attacked; and because Avery’s garage, if open, appears to have been visible from a nearby road…	…the garage door was probably closed while Teresa was in there. Different witnesses put his garage as being either open or closed at different times, but I don’t think it’s a reach to assume a person would close the garage door if they were about to dispose of and dismember a body. I also think it’s likely the garage is where he cut her remains up. I think he’d want a private space for that, with the smallest chance of witnesses possible, and that would be a closed garage.
Halbach’s cell abruptly stopped reporting in at 14:41 on October 31st, a full hour before Blaine and Brendan Dassey got home from school; and because Blaine reported seeing Steven throw a plastic bag into a burn barrel…	…Teresa Halbach had already been dead for over an hour when Brendan Dassey got home from school. Everything important about his confession (that is, everything related to how and why she died) is either something he invented outright or is based on something Avery told him. There is no way to know which is which.
The most accurate parts of Brendan’s confession (meaning the parts most strongly correlating to existing forensic evidence) are the parts about cleaning up and disposing of a body; and because, due to bleach spots both in the garage and on Brendan's jeans, we can definitively place Brendan in the garage at some point during the process of disposing of Ms. Halbach’s remains…	…while Brendan can’t have aided in anything that happened to Teresa before she died, it does appear he helped Steven Avery dispose of, and clean up after, her remains.
The known shots to Teresa’s head were perimortem and were to the occipital and parietal regions; and because quite a lot of her skeleton has been recovered but there’s only recoverable forensic evidence of two shots to her; and because Brendan claimed she was shot in the head ten times…	…for starters, we can deduce Teresa was very likely already unresponsive and probably unconscious when Avery shot her. The grouping is really close and it’s two shots to the rear of her head. I don’t really want to get into all the reasons I wouldn’t expect to see that in a murder victim who was aware her life was in danger, but it suggests an unconscious person lying mostly face down, being shot by a standing person. Model it out if you’re having trouble picturing it. But we can also deduce that there’s no particular reason to believe Brendan’s right about how many times she was shot. There are eleven shell casings on the floor of the garage but I see no special reason to believe there weren’t nine before Avery shot a person in the head in his garage on October 31st. Again, I don’t think we can trust Brendan’s word about nearly anything. But there’s another reason I think that, too, which is:
We can only account for two shots to Halbach’s body but there are eleven shell casings in the garage; and because Brendan says she was shot ten times; and because Brendan’s confession is mostly useless; and because it’s likely she’d already been shot before Brendan even came home; and because it’s most likely she was shot in a closed garage…	…though I’m far from certain about this, I think the balance of probability suggests that it’s more likely Teresa wasn’t shot many more times than twice. I know Brendan’s story matches the shell casings (though he’s off by one), but we really don’t have any way of knowing if that actually happened or not. Brendan confessed to multiple versions of this story and she wasn’t even shot in all of them. So instead, look at what’s knowable: I think it’s more likely Avery fired the minimum number of shots necessary, because I think it’s very likely he did this with the garage door down, which means he was firing a rifle in a closed garage. It would have been insanely loud. Again, not certain about this, but if I’m trying to reconstruct this thing, I think the totality of circumstances suggests it’d be easier for him to have fired two shots than eleven. Also they found the fired bullets in the garage, not in the burn pit, which means there was an exit wound after she was shot in the back of the head twice. I don’t see a need for him to do it more than twice. I mean I don’t see a need for any of this to have happened at all, but you know what I mean.
Avery’s displays of inappropriate boundaries seemed especially pointed at women (including his own cousin); and because he requested Halbach specifically; and because his displays of inappropriate sexual boundaries included Halbach already; and because when he requested Teresa Halbach, he did not request her by name but simply as that woman who came out before; and because Avery’s girlfriend was in jail at that time; and because he was already going out of his way to avoid using his own name when contacting AutoTrader; and because he went out of his way to hide his phone number, which wasn’t typical for him according to his phone records, but which he did multiple times when calling Teresa Halbach from his own phone on the 31st; and I’m sorry but did you see the thing above where he had pictures on a wall? This man had pictures of women on a goddamn wall and he told this woman she’d be one of the women on his wall someday? I just, look, seriously, that’s really messing me up	I think I would like to give Teresa Halbach some privacy here, if that’s all right. I’m going to do that even if it’s not all right, but I hope it is. I think this woman has been through enough. I think that Teresa Halbach should still be alive, and I think that in a better world, if you googled her name, the first hit would be about Teresa Halbach and just her. It would be the site for her portrait studio, or a news article about her portrait studio, or her engagement, or anything at all about her. I think in a better world, if you’re reading this many decades after I wrote it, if you googled Teresa Halbach you would be reading an obituary about the incredible long life she had, and all the people she was closest to and how fondly she’s loved and remembered, and not only an account of the fantastic things she did but also all the ways it was just so wonderful to be in the same room as her. As I type this, instead, in this world, there’s a news result from three hours ago about the latest twist in the story of the man convicted of her murder. There’s a few photos of her in the little image results bar up top. Then the pictures are all smirking Zellner and the text is all about a name that isn’t hers. I’m really sorry, Ms. Halbach, I honestly truly am. I’m sorry all this ever happens to anyone and I’m sorry it happened to you. I’m sorry your family doesn’t get to see you laugh anymore and I’m sorry for every piece of Easter candy you would have eaten for the rest of your life and I’m sorry for everything you aren’t here to take for granted now. I’m sorry I don’t know your name for a better reason. I think I can just about piece most of this together now and I know you’re not here and you’re not reading this, but it’s precisely because you are not here, and not reading this, that I’m reminded of all the things I wish it were within my power to do for you. And now I can’t do anything useful for you, and I’m sorry about that too. But I think it matters who we are when no one’s looking, and I can observe with respect and sadness that there was a great suffering that came to you, and that the details of it don’t need to be held up for the world to see. So here’s what I think we can deduce from the above. What I think is that a woman had a life, and it was a beautiful life because it was hers, and then one day a man decided that nothing about her was more important than what he wanted from her at that moment, but he was wrong. Nothing about her was any less important than anything about anyone, because just like every other sapient creature since however far back you want to go, she was a living breathing thinking person, and she was here and she was real and she mattered, and her name was Teresa Halbach. Those are the details of what happened. And I think the one thing I can do for Ms. Halbach now is to simply say someone did something terrible and that’s why she’s not here. But more importantly than that, love, and connection, and compassion, and Gwen Stefani and scuba diving and the ecstatic moment of dialing in on something you’re really good at - like photography - and hugs every day and the love of a family were just a few of the infinity of reasons why she was ever here at all, and I think that counts for something, too. I think it counts for quite a lot, in fact, and that’s why it’s the important part.

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Planned Parenthood performed an abortion on 21-year-old Elizabeth Tsuji in 1977. It was November 11, but that December Elizabeth missed another period. She called Planned Parenthood, but they were absolutely sure the abortion had worked.
On February 1, 1978, Elizabeth’s suspicions were confirmed. Her baby was still alive. Elizabeth was now five months pregnant.
The Planned Parenthood clinic referred her to Inglewood General Hospital for a saline abortion. Despite the name and licensing status, Inglewood was actually just an abortion facility. And it had a history of problems. Kathy Murphy died of sepsis in 1973 from an abortion at Inglewood. Lynette Wallace died in 1975 after Inglewood aborted her ectopic pregnancy, rupturing it and killing her. Elizabeth was about to be next.
She packed a nightgown and told her family she was going to spend the night at a friend's house. That was the last time they ever saw her alive.
Elizabeth underwent the abortion on February 2 and died that same day.
Despite Inglewood’s history of death, it wasn’t until two more deaths (Cora Mae Lewis and Belinda Byrd) that the state of California finally took action and closed the facility down. When they did, Inglewood simply re-opened under a different name and went on to kill more women and their unborn children.
https://www.rosehills.com/obituaries/whittier-ca/elizabeth-tsuji-8448170
https://www.myheritage.com/names/elizabeth_tsuji
Death Certificate 78-063811
Autopsy 78-1763
https://www.archives.com/search/vital/loading?url=ac_act%3Dstep2VR&firstname=%20ELIZABETH&lastname=TSUJI&location=US&utm_medium=Advertising&utm_source=SortedByName&utm_campaign=SortedByName_NamesPagesLinks&utm_content=SortedByName_NamesPagesLinkAd1&recordtype=5&aff=93
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129564744/elizabeth-ryoko-tsuji

KATHY FAY HAIDER 1951 ˜ 2021 Kathy Fay Haider
found peace with the Lord on Dec. 16, 2021, after 70 joyful years as a devoted daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, friend, and Christian. Kathy is survived by her husband, Kenneth Haider, with whom she shared many years of love. She is also survived by four brothers, one sister, three children, nine grandchildren (so far), three great-grandchildren (so far), by the love of her friends, and by a number of Beanie Babies to be determined by her children. Kathy was born on a Wednesday in July, 1951, in Fairbanks, AK. This was just after the theatrical release of the musical “Rich, Young and Pretty,” and she had two out of three, which is better than most. She graduated from South Salem High School in the Summer of Love, 1969. Kathy worked as a Custody Officer in the Clark County Sheriff’s Office for thirty-one years. That is a long time, but not as long as she drove her 1987 Chevy Nova. She had a pet crow, once. She let it go when she found out that it wasn’t legal. Kathy had three passions, shopping, food, and Jesus Christ; and three great loves, her family, her friends, and Jesus Christ. Not necessarily in that order. Her youngest son, Jeremiah Cowen, is her favorite child and second favorite “JC”. Her oldest son, Christopher Myers, and her middlest daughter, Rozanna Burroughs, are not writing this obituary, and they may have different opinions on that point. Kathy was the kindest person we knew, and she saw kindness and love everywhere in the world. You couldn’t go for a walk with Kathy without her bringing home an armful of heart-shaped rocks - a reminder to her that God loves her. Kathy is remembered by all for her loving and unassuming manner. By listening with love and gentleness, Kathy made women’s world chess champion Susan Polgar cry. Kathy was also stronger than we can say. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Aglow International. Please contact a member of Kathy’s family for information regarding a memorial service. To end with some of Kathy’s own last words: “To those I didn’t get to say goodbye to, remember I love you. But even more Our Savior Loves You 3 Don’t forget that!” Please share a memory @ www.columbian.com/obits

"I should be prosecuted? What happened on January 6, senator?" - Anthony Fauci, a man who's had it up to here with Ted Cruz

Another One

New COVID variant of concern just dropped, and while the world is thoroughly spooked, it’s not at all clear whether this one is more dangerous than its predecessors. Here’s everything we (mostly don’t) know about Omicron:

• South African scientists announced their discovery of a variant with a high number of mutations within the virus’s spike protein on Thursday, and the WHO designated it a variant of concern on Friday, naming it Omicron. Those spike protein mutations could make Omicron more transmissible, and if it turns out to cause more severe disease and/or evade vaccines, it would be very bad news—but there’s no definitive evidence of any of that yet. “The variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic,” President Biden said on Monday.
  
• The U.S. was among several Concerned But Not Panicking Nations to swiftly ban travel from southern African countries, although Omicron didn’t necessarily originate there, and both African leaders and the WHO have cried foul. Japan, Israel, and Morocco have closed their borders to foreign travelers altogether. Travel bans can only slow down the inevitable: Canadian officials have already confirmed at least three cases of the variant in North America, and Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) has declared a preemptive state of emergency.
  
• It will take scientists weeks to gather enough data to know whether and how forcefully we should be wetting ourselves. South African officials identified Omicron amid a spike in new infections and hospitalizations, but aren’t sure whether the new variant drove that wave. The vast majority of South Africa’s hospital admissions were still of the unvaccinated persuasion, a hopeful piece of early evidence that Omicron doesn’t render the vaccines totally ineffective. Drug companies are racing to bang out Omicron-specific versions of their vaccines, just in case.
  

Not to complicate your doom-scrolling, but there’s even a scenario in which a highly transmissible new COVID strain could be, counterintuitively, good news.

• Hear us out. The South African doctor who alerted officials about the Omicron variant said she had noticed patients coming in with “extremely mild” symptoms, which tipped her off that she wasn’t looking at Delta. The only data is anecdotal, but if Omicron ultimately turned out to be both more transmissible and significantly less virulent than Delta, its global domination would save untold lives. That’s roughly how the Spanish flu pandemic fizzled out, and it’s a nice potential outcome to contemplate until 2021 rolls up to give us another wedgie!
  
• The few clear (if repetitive) takeaways are that the world can best protect itself from new variants by sharing vaccines with poorer countries, and that Americans can best protect themselves from existing ones by getting vaxxed and boosted. None of that would hurt Joe Biden, though, so Republicans are more focused on trying to extend unemployment benefits to the unvaccinated in an effort to undermine Biden’s vaccine mandates and wring more votes out of the anti-vaxxers that manage to survive their leadership.
  

Nobody yet knows how transmissible Omicron is, how well it can evade vaccine immunity, or whether it causes more severe disease—and we won’t know for at least a couple of weeks. We do have enough data to know that the GOP will continue to root for and cultivate the deadliest possible outcome, with the help of whatever variant they can get.

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Under The Radar

Congressional redistricting may be the sexiest of the map-drawing processes, but Republicans have also been gerrymandering themselves into unshakeable control of legislatures in key swing states. In Texas and Georgia, GOP lawmakers have largely eliminated competitive districts to create safe majorities for themselves over the next decade. In Ohio and North Carolina, Republicans have approved maps that would preserve or give them supermajorities capable of overriding a Democratic governor’s veto. If the courts don’t strike those maps down (which could take years) and Democrats in Congress fail to pass federal redistricting reforms in the next 15 minutes or so, virtually no level of Democratic voter turnout will be able to flip control of those legislatures for ten long abortion-banning, gun-proliferating, voter-suppressing years.

What Else?

Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO of Twitter, which may or may not have to do with GOP mega-donor Paul Singer’s effort to force him out. Dorsey's replacement is Twitter’s chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal, whom Republicans are already smearing as part of their campaign to bully Twitter into hosting more right-wing disinformation.
Justice Department prosecutors have accused Steve Bannon of trying to turn his criminal case into a media circus, asking a judge to limit what documents he can release publicly. In other uncooperative dipshits, the January 6 committee will vote Wednesday to hold former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark in criminal contempt of Congress.
Some January 6 organizers reportedly used burner phones to communicate with the White House and Trump family members, almost like they all knew they were doing crimes and tried to hide it.
Opening statements in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial began on Monday, with prosecutors describing how Maxwell recruited vulnerable young girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has sued the Pentagon, claiming that it’s improperly blocking portions of his memoir from publication.
Matthew McConaughey has decided that he won’t run for governor, in a rare moment of relief for the beleaguered residents of Texas.
Jared Kushner’s trying to raise money in the Middle East for his new investment firm, from officials he dealt with on behalf of the government just months ago.
QAnon Idol Michael Flynn privately called QAnon “total nonsense” (hahaha), and also a disinformation campaign created by the CIA and/or the left (oh).
Musical theater legend Stephen Sondheim died on Friday at 91, leaving behind an appropriately legendary obituary correction.

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Kathy Flores was a former player and coach for the American women's national team. She was the coach for Brown University's women team. She is a member of the U.S. Rugby Hall of Fame. Just wanted to share this post and some information on her because where I'm from (Rhode Island) she is known by many as a great coach and person. Here is her obituary:
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https://www.forevermissed.com/kathy-flores/about
https://www.uswrf.org/kathy-flores-memorial-fund

I was lodged somewhere in the deadzone between 103.5 & 103.9 on my late father’s four-speaker Panasonic multifunction boombox when two things collided into the station on my train of thought at 375mph. Picking my way through the wreckage I could clearly see that 1) One of the many strange screeches innate to this familiar radio static was the sonic source of a similar screech in the instrumental of DJ Felli Fel’s “Get Buck in Here,” a crunk classic from my obviously gangster youth, and 2) John Mayer’s new single “Last Train Home” is borrowing dangerously from Toto’s soundscape, and it doesn’t matter if former members of the band helped him record it when the potential for an artistic copyright infringement lawsuit looms large in the glistening, infected eyeballs of the American Music Industry. We’ve seen rockstars attempt to castrate each other & eat live animals on National television for less incentive, and when the added bonus of vengeance is tacked onto that incentive, oh baby.
Never scorn a woman or a musician, and should you get the chance to scorn a human being who can check both boxes simultaneously remember; two negatives making a positive has never made sense to yours truly.
Christ, what am I even talking about? This is the delirious rambling of a man grasping desperately in his mind for anything else to think about besides what he should be thinking about.
The list is plentiful to be sure, and my supply of chemical distraction has dwindled to nought but the two standbys; Mary Jane & Kratom (Someone needs to come up with a pithy female alias for that plant immediately. Kratomia? Kratos? Kathy?). Not that there’s anything wrong with those two at all, but when there’s a death in the family they just don’t quite cut the mustard.
Staying at my mother’s last week to help with arrangements & errands was a surprisingly beneficial move for us both; the quantity of projects within the Tartarus-esque chasm of their garage alone I could lose my attentions in helped with the restlessness immensely. That my father’s unoccupied wheelchair sat at the end of his ramp, not too dissimilar from how he would sit there in life—marveling at my inability to see things he was pointing at three feet in front of me—was a morbid comfort of sorts; would he have approved of my final rearrangement of the labyrinth? Or would he have had some critique like he almost always did?
Those critiques carried unimaginable water when he was stacked from the waist up & routinely doing things like landscaping, furniture relocation and vehicular maintenance while restrained to a wheelchair, but they had become a comedy act of sorts between us in his aged frailty. He was the old lion, and I was well into the “summer of my life,” as he would put it; that humans long ago outgrew the inborne mammalian itch to drive the elderly & infirm from the pack is one of the few things that still gives me hope for our species.
Of course, getting herded onto the edge of an ice shelf & broken off into the Atlantic Ocean to meet your god seems more humane than most of the old folks’ homes I’ve been to in my life. That experience is limited to five or so in total, and only one of those more than once or twice, but they all left such an impression on me in my youth I decided firmly then & there I never wanted to reach my old age.
And I do mean old; both sides of my family routinely live into their 80s & 90s, and most in good health before then. There was a reason we all joked that my father would outlive my mother in spite of all physical & mental evidence to the contrary. Had he not gotten in the wheelchair that fateful Halloween night, the year of some unjust lord 1980, I genuinely believe the man would’ve made it to one hundred—still in spite of some physical & mental evidence to the contrary, I’m sure.
I like this boombox; I always have, since before I could even reach the knobs where it sat on the workbench, and it was just a sticker-speckled monolith bellowing Zeppelin & The Doors & The Beatles through the sunbeams as I learned to throw a baseball on the driveway. The poor thing was hardly recognizable when I excavated it from the hoarder cliff face the entire port side of the garage has become over the last twelve years.
The starboard side was always the primary repository of my mom’s hyperactive nesting mechanism, but Nick & I kept the left half pristine for many years, and at the least maneuverable for a wheelchair after that. Things degenerated grievously in the era after I moved out and began traipsing around the country, and I’ll always feel not quite right about that.
About many things, the state of this piece chief among them currently. I had no real idea what I was going to write when the urge struck me like a case of Zaire-Type Ebola this evening, but it’s the first time I’ve felt it since the old man kicked and I know he would’ve considered it a disrespect not to write at a time like this if I suddenly could. It’s far from an obituary, but he was far from a traditionalist or a sentimental dude.
Not openly anyway. The same man who encouraged me never to let them see me cry also was available for me countless times I did just that with zero judgment & bountiful empathy, and came to be comfortable to show me the same in my adulthood. He was a complicated & viciously paranoid man, but at the cusp of thirty years old I can finally and positively say I understand why. For a long time I debated that we could be better than our primitive wiring, and that we should keep an open heart to the world whatever injustice it volleys our way, a la Maya Angelou & Mr. Lennon.
Twelve years of getting savagely, unmercifully fucked by individuals & majorities from every caste of society you ever befriend or otherwise stumble into will change that eventually. It’ll be subtle at first, and it may never accumulate to a point you even realize if your self-awareness finds itself dulled by vice & poor living along with your waking consciousness—a common & unforeseen side effect of many decent, intelligent people just trying to numb the pain.
But the changes will be there. Those few extra bucks in your pocket will stop going to the bum on the corner; donations in the checkout line on the card reader module become harder to justify the more corrupt you learn almost all the charities are; casual conversation with coworkers & acquaintances will make you suspicious and the time it takes to give somebody the time of day becomes counterintuitive. What about your schedule? What about your deadline? What about your ladder to climb & holes to dig? How do you know this disheveled twenty-something in a ragged American Indian Movement t-shirt asking for a jump around back of the gas station isn’t going to bash you over the head with a $45 crowbar and make off with every article on your personage in your car with the GPS module ripped out of the dash and the coordinates to a border crossing just outside [REDACTED] California circled 88 times on a map from 1997?
Oh no, I’m not talking about me. I’m not feeling that desperate & caged in, not me. I couldn’t even do that if I wanted to; my $45 crowbar was in the Buffalo when it got repossessed and the agency in charge of the operation refused to call me back about an address at which to claim my personal effects...
Fuck me, I can’t stay on a topic if I tried tonight. There’s something to be said for stream of consciousness in any field, but sometimes I can’t help but pause after realizing what I’ve written and shudder. I don’t get paid enough—or anything—to write this honestly, and a wiser man than I once mused that if you aren’t getting paid for your various insanities you will soon find yourself locked up for them.
I would eat more fully & consistently I suppose, so long as I could stand the gruel & artificial grilled cheese. And my employment issues would be solved with any number of indentured manufacturing jobs. Assuming Richard Speck is still to be believed, I might even find a quality smack hook & a good lay while I’m in the clink. Surely this option is being undersold to the American public.
I can’t say that with a straight face knowing over two million of us are languishing in detention centers across the country, many unjustly & with no recourse. My own lack of significant encounter with the law never ceases to amaze me, and if there are no atheists in foxholes there are certainly none who won’t knock on wood after making a statement like that.
Wrapping this up is on my mind, solely because I know I still have nothing real to say. I never did, and that I’ve cranked all this out in spite of that—and that anyone attempting to read it could’ve made it this far, you brave & patient soul(s)—is something. A small something, but I’ve learned increasingly to appreciate those in the big scheme of things.
My father passed away on July 23rd, 2021 at 65 years old. He was my first & best friend, and arguably the most pivotal contributor to who I am today, for good & ill. He gave me the tools to balance those scales though, and I’m trying every day.
Peace & Love...but stay off my lawn.

I was lodged somewhere in the deadzone between 103.5 & 103.9 on my late father’s four-speaker Panasonic multifunction boombox when two things collided into the station on my train of thought at 375mph. Picking my way through the wreckage I could clearly see that 1) One of the many strange screeches innate to this familiar radio static was the sonic source of a similar screech in the instrumental of DJ Felli Fel’s “Get Buck in Here,” a crunk classic from my obviously gangster youth, and 2) John Mayer’s new single “Last Train Home” is borrowing dangerously from Toto’s soundscape, and it doesn’t matter if former members of the band helped him record it when the potential for an artistic copyright infringement lawsuit looms large in the glistening, infected eyeballs of the American Music Industry. We’ve seen rockstars attempt to castrate each other & eat live animals on National television for less incentive, and when the added bonus of vengeance is tacked onto that incentive, oh baby.
Never scorn a woman or a musician, and should you get the chance to scorn a human being who can check both boxes simultaneously remember; two negatives making a positive has never made sense to yours truly.
Christ, what am I even talking about? This is the delirious rambling of a man grasping desperately in his mind for anything else to think about besides what he should be thinking about.
The list is plentiful to be sure, and my supply of chemical distraction has dwindled to nought but the two standbys; Mary Jane & Kratom (Someone needs to come up with a pithy female alias for that plant immediately. Kratomia? Kratos? Kathy?). Not that there’s anything wrong with those two at all, but when there’s a death in the family they just don’t quite cut the mustard.
Staying at my mother’s last week to help with arrangements & errands was a surprisingly beneficial move for us both; the quantity of projects within the Tartarus-esque chasm of their garage alone I could lose my attentions in helped with the restlessness immensely. That my father’s unoccupied wheelchair sat at the end of his ramp, not too dissimilar from how he would sit there in life—marveling at my inability to see things he was pointing at three feet in front of me—was a morbid comfort of sorts; would he have approved of my final rearrangement of the labyrinth? Or would he have had some critique like he almost always did?
Those critiques carried unimaginable water when he was stacked from the waist up & routinely doing things like landscaping, furniture relocation and vehicular maintenance while restrained to a wheelchair, but they had become a comedy act of sorts between us in his aged frailty. He was the old lion, and I was well into the “summer of my life,” as he would put it; that humans long ago outgrew the inborne mammalian itch to drive the elderly & infirm from the pack is one of the few things that still gives me hope for our species.
Of course, getting herded onto the edge of an ice shelf & broken off into the Atlantic Ocean to meet your god seems more humane than most of the old folks’ homes I’ve been to in my life. That experience is limited to five or so in total, and only one of those more than once or twice, but they all left such an impression on me in my youth I decided firmly then & there I never wanted to reach my old age.
And I do mean old; both sides of my family routinely live into their 80s & 90s, and most in good health before then. There was a reason we all joked that my father would outlive my mother in spite of all physical & mental evidence to the contrary. Had he not gotten in the wheelchair that fateful Halloween night, the year of some unjust lord 1980, I genuinely believe the man would’ve made it to one hundred—still in spite of some physical & mental evidence to the contrary, I’m sure.
I like this boombox; I always have, since before I could even reach the knobs where it sat on the workbench, and it was just a sticker-speckled monolith bellowing Zeppelin & The Doors & The Beatles through the sunbeams as I learned to throw a baseball on the driveway. The poor thing was hardly recognizable when I excavated it from the hoarder cliff face the entire port side of the garage has become over the last twelve years.
The starboard side was always the primary repository of my mom’s hyperactive nesting mechanism, but Nick & I kept the left half pristine for many years, and at the least maneuverable for a wheelchair after that. Things degenerated grievously in the era after I moved out and began traipsing around the country, and I’ll always feel not quite right about that.
About many things, the state of this piece chief among them currently. I had no real idea what I was going to write when the urge struck me like a case of Zaire-Type Ebola this evening, but it’s the first time I’ve felt it since the old man kicked and I know he would’ve considered it a disrespect not to write at a time like this if I suddenly could. It’s far from an obituary, but he was far from a traditionalist or a sentimental dude.
Not openly anyway. The same man who encouraged me never to let them see me cry also was available for me countless times I did just that with zero judgment & bountiful empathy, and came to be comfortable to show me the same in my adulthood. He was a complicated & viciously paranoid man, but at the cusp of thirty years old I can finally and positively say I understand why. For a long time I debated that we could be better than our primitive wiring, and that we should keep an open heart to the world whatever injustice it volleys our way, a la Maya Angelou & Mr. Lennon.
Twelve years of getting savagely, unmercifully fucked by individuals & majorities from every caste of society you ever befriend or otherwise stumble into will change that eventually. It’ll be subtle at first, and it may never accumulate to a point you even realize if your self-awareness finds itself dulled by vice & poor living along with your waking consciousness—a common & unforeseen side effect of many decent, intelligent people just trying to numb the pain.
But the changes will be there. Those few extra bucks in your pocket will stop going to the bum on the corner; donations in the checkout line on the card reader module become harder to justify the more corrupt you learn almost all the charities are; casual conversation with coworkers & acquaintances will make you suspicious and the time it takes to give somebody the time of day becomes counterintuitive. What about your schedule? What about your deadline? What about your ladder to climb & holes to dig? How do you know this disheveled twenty-something in a ragged American Indian Movement t-shirt asking for a jump around back of the gas station isn’t going to bash you over the head with a $45 crowbar and make off with every article on your personage in your car with the GPS module ripped out of the dash and the coordinates to a border crossing just outside [REDACTED] California circled 88 times on a map from 1997?
Oh no, I’m not talking about me. I’m not feeling that desperate & caged in, not me. I couldn’t even do that if I wanted to; my $45 crowbar was in the Buffalo when it got repossessed and the agency in charge of the operation refused to call me back about an address at which to claim my personal effects...
Fuck me, I can’t stay on a topic if I tried tonight. There’s something to be said for stream of consciousness in any field, but sometimes I can’t help but pause after realizing what I’ve written and shudder. I don’t get paid enough—or anything—to write this honestly, and a wiser man than I once mused that if you aren’t getting paid for your various insanities you will soon find yourself locked up for them.
I would eat more fully & consistently I suppose, so long as I could stand the gruel & artificial grilled cheese. And my employment issues would be solved with any number of indentured manufacturing jobs. Assuming Richard Speck is still to be believed, I might even find a quality smack hook & a good lay while I’m in the clink. Surely this option is being undersold to the American public.
I can’t say that with a straight face knowing over two million of us are languishing in detention centers across the country, many unjustly & with no recourse. My own lack of significant encounter with the law never ceases to amaze me, and if there are no atheists in foxholes there are certainly none who won’t knock on wood after making a statement like that.
Wrapping this up is on my mind, solely because I know I still have nothing real to say. I never did, and that I’ve cranked all this out in spite of that—and that anyone attempting to read it could’ve made it this far, you brave & patient soul(s)—is something. A small something, but I’ve learned increasingly to appreciate those in the big scheme of things.
My father passed away on July 23rd, 2021 at 65 years old. He was my first & best friend, and arguably the most pivotal contributor to who I am today, for good & ill. He gave me the tools to balance those scales though, and I’m trying every day.
Peace & Love...but stay off my lawn.