Random News: October 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 October 8, 2022, and it’s a Saturday. News from a guy in a bathrobe…

• The Uvalde, TX school district has suspended its entire police force, and the district superintendent is going to retire amid fallout from the shooting massacre at Robb Elementary in May.
• Good.
• An Ohio judge has issued a preliminary injunction against a new Ohio law that prohibits abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
• Abortion in Ohio is still legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy, at least while litigation continues.
• Whew.
• He agreed with the plaintiffs who said the law puts an undue burden on pregnant women. “You’re restricting her opportunities. You’re restricting her rights. You’re relegating her to a different status,” he stated.
• In related news, an Arizona appellate court halted enforcement of the state’s near-total abortion ban late Friday.
• We wouldn’t have to worry about these rogue states and right-wing activist judges enacting draconian anti-women laws if we elect a Democrat majority in the House and Senate who will codify the right to abortion at a national level. 
• Vote please. The elections are four weeks from Tuesday on November 8.
• Facebook parent Meta is warning 1 million users that their login information may have been compromised through malicious apps.
• They found more than 400 malicious Android and Apple iOS apps this year that were designed to steal the personal Facebook login information of its users.
• The apps would ask users to “login with Facebook” and later steal their username and password.
• That’s nice.
• Be careful. Side note: I never log into anything using the credentials of another thing. Never ever. Neither should you.
• While I’m being Captain Obvious, never log into anything via an email link, even if you “know” it’s legit.
• Lots and lots of ways to get ripped off.
• And now, The Weather: “All My Friends Live on the Internet” by Scoobert Doobert.
• The bridge that connects the Crimean peninsula to mainland Russia mysteriously blew up yesterday.
• A massive truck bomb exploded and collapsed section of the massive 12-mile bridge that had just gone at high expense up in 2018.
• For those of you with short memories, Russia “annexed” (aka stole by force) Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
• Kiev isn’t taking responsibility for the action, but they do seem to be in good spirits about “whoever did this”.
• It happened on Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday yesterday. Happy birthday Vlad.
• Columbia University is going to pay $165 million to 147 victims of former gynecologist Robert Haddon. That piece of shit, who sexually abused women under his care (including minors), never served a day of jail time and only had to give up his medical practice.
• From the Sports Desk… MLB playoff are here. The Wild Card round is a best-of-three series, and so far, the first game winners include the Guardians over the Rays, the Mariners over the Blue Jays, the Phillies over the Cardinals, and the Padres over the Mets.
• The winners of these series will face the regular season leaders, which include the Yankees, Astros, Braves, and Dodgers in the respective ALDS and NLDS.
• Let’s go Dodgers.
• Today in history… The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville (1862). Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators (1895). Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor in WWI (1918). The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series (1956). Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia (1967). Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 275.97 knots (1978). ‘Cats’ opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000 (1982). U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security (2001). 
• October 8 is the birthday of composer Heinrich Schütz (1585), activist Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), chemist/engineer Mary Engle Pennington (1872), Zog I of Albania (1895), Argentine president Juan Perón (1895), author Frank Herbert (1920), journalist Rona Barrett (1936), actor Paul Hogan (1939), activist Jesse Jackson (1941), actor Chevy Chase (1943), author R. L. Stine (1943), actress Sigourney Weaver (1949), musician Robert “Kool” Bell (1950), singer CeCe Winans (1964), actor Matt Damon (1970), politician Sadiq Khan (1970), and musician Bruno Mars (1985).

Alrighty, well… It’s Saturday. I actually have things to do. I’m going to get in the shower and put on clothing and then do the things. And how about you? I merely ask that you enjoy your day.