Random News: October 27, 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 October 27, 2022, and it’s a Thursday for some reason. Here are things that seem to be happening, although one never knows…

• Today is the 300th day of 2022. I’m not sure that matters, yet here we are.
• Yesterday, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was ordered by a judge to testify before a special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence Georgia's 2020 election.
• Tomorrow is the expected date for Elon Musk to finalize his purchase of Twitter for $44 billion.
• That doesn’t bother me. If something I enjoy begins to suck, I have no qualms about leaving it behind. But if Musk can run Twitter in a way that doesn’t indicate that he’s a giant piece of shit, I’ll be glad to stay.
• A second woman is claiming that she got pregnant by former NFL player and current GA Senate candidate Herschel Walker and then had an abortion.
• She also says that he drove her to an abortion clinic to have an abortion after she became pregnant during their relationship.
• Part of Walker’s political platform is banning abortions nationwide without exceptions.
• To be clear, this is separate from the other woman who claims Walker pressured her to have an abortion and paid for it.
• Please vote for incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock instead of this hypocrite and blatant liar. Thank you.
• And now, The Weather: “Do Nothing About It” by Julia Shapiro
• Darrell Brooks was found guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide for driving his SUV into a crowd of Christmas parade attendees in Waukesha, WI last fall.
• He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison for the convictions. Good. Fuck that guy.
• From the Sports Desk… the World Series starts tomorrow. Weird stat: this will be the first World Series since 1950 with no Black players expected to play.
• World Series stat #2: while the Houston Astros are favored to win, surveys say that a huge percentage of the country is pulling for the Philadelphia Phillies, mostly because the Astros were caught cheating a few years back and very little punishment was handed to them.
• This country doesn’t respect cheaters. Go Phillies.
• As I mentioned in a post yesterday, Ye — the guy who I went many years without mentioning but keep doing so now for some reason — showed up at the Skechers HQ yesterday right up the street from me in Manhattan Beach, CA.
• He had no appointment and brought a film crew with him.
• He was escorted out. Skechers was founded by and is still run by the Greenberg family, who are Jewish and stated, “Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West. We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech. The Company would like to again stress that West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.”
• Part of me feels badly for this guy who admittedly suffers from mental health challenges. It would be good if someone could help him, but I find that possibility very unlikely.
• Today in history… Æthelstan, the first king of all England, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I (939). Founding of the city of Amsterdam (1275). Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1682). United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida (1810). The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (1904). Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (1936). NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1 (1961). By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war (1962). The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire (1971). United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay (1992). 
• October 27 is the birthday of writer Mary Sidney (1561), composer Niccolò Paganini (1782), businessman Isaac Singer (1811), president Theodore Roosevelt (1858), poet Dylan Thomas (1914), actress Nanette Fabray (1920), artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923), Watergate lawyer H. R. Haldeman (1926), poet Sylvia Plath (1932), musician Floyd Kramer (1933), actor John Cleese (1939), mob boss John Gotti (1940), race car driver Dick Trickle (1941), actress Carrie Snodgress (1945), bass player Garry Tallent (1949), guitarist K. K. Downing (1951), actor Roberto Benigni (1952), actor Robert Picardo (1953), singer Simon Le Bon (1958), and NBA player Lonzo Ball (1997).

Well, I have a day packed with meetings, which sucks. Here’s what some folks outside the business world don’t understand: the meetings themselves are usually fine. But they can be a huge time drain. I have tangible things to do for my clients, and when you have 3-4 hours of a day committed to discussing things, you still have to actually do the things, minus the time you spent in meetings. At least that’s how it is for me. But whatever… I’m used to this shit. I am heading into my 30th year in my career, so I do get it by now. I really do. Enjoy your day.