Random News: September 8, 2022

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morning. It’s September 8, 2022, and it’s a Thursday for some reason. It’s a busy morning for me, but here’s a small variety of things and whatnot…

• Some 19-year-old piece of shit shot up Memphis, TN. He drove around town for hours in a stolen car, livestreaming himself while he killed four people and wounded three more.
• I say this from the perspective of someone who was once a young man: young men are mostly fucking assholes. It’s the exception to the rule when they aren’t.
• Queen Elizabeth II, who’s led a remarkable existence and has earned near universal respect, may be close to the end of her life. Obviously at 96 years old, most people are, and yet it will be a very sad day when she goes.
• Steve Bannon, who makes anyone feel better about themselves in comparison, surrendered to authorities this morning in New York. 
• The Sports Desk notes that tonight is the start of the NFL season. The Bills are slightly favored to beat the Rams.
• Stewart Copeland said he cried while watching Shane Hawkins play drums with the Foos last weekend. I think many of us joined him.
• And now, The Weather: “It Might Be Something” by Ed Mount.
• In my ongoing complaints about the weather (not the Weather above… the actual fucking weather), it’s supposed to start raining here in a few minutes… and then the temps will rocket back up for the next couple of days. Fuck me.
• Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw has died at age 82. He was a pioneering Black broadcaster remembered for his calm reporting in the Gulf War.
• Just thought I’d mention that the January 6 Select Committee will be picking up where they left off, with more testimony coming soon from members of the FPOTUS’s administration who witnessed the purposeful actions that led to the attempted coup that failed because those people are all fucking morons.
• God help us if any smart people try an insurrection. Fortunately, smart people tend to not do those things.
• Today in history… Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence (1504).  Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1761). The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board, arriving six months later at the mouth of the Columbia River and establishing the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon (1810). The Northern Pacific Railway was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana (1883). To prove women were capable military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles (1916). 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape (1930). The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast (1952). The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap” (1966). In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated (1971). Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office (1974). US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual” (1975). 
• September 8 is the birthday of king Richard I of England (1157), mathematician Marin Mersenne (1588), composer Antonín Dvořák (1841), musician Seth Weeks (1868), politician Claude Pepper (1900), actor Sid Caesar (1922), activist Jacqueline Ceballos (1925), actor Peter Sellers (1925), legendary singer Patsy Cline (1932), politician Bernie Sanders (1941), musician Pigpen McKernan (1945), NHL player Rogie Vachon (1945), musician Benjamin Orr (1947), musician Will Lee (1952), musician Aimee Mann (1960), musician Neko Case (1970), actor David Arquette (1971), actor Martin Freeman (1971), and rapper Wiz Khalifa (1987).

Alrighty, time for me to work out and then work like the worker I am. Enjoy your day.