THE LIGHTER SIDE
God bless America, and how’s everybody?
■ The Taliban ruling council addressed television cameras Tuesday while seated before dozens of reporters and tried to calm the fears of the Afghan people. They assured the women in their country that they are absolutely safe, and they are. They are 8,000 miles from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
■ South Dakota recently held the Sturgis bike rally, its annual rally of tens of thousands of motorcycle riders. Bikers were jampacked into one little town. However, to keep the CDC from calling it a superspreader event, they changed its name to the Obama Birthday Bash West.
■ Critics say anti-vaxxers who are active on social media are killing people. It makes no sense why we’d want to keep backsliding. People have been eating Chicken McNuggets and hot dogs all their lives, but they’re afraid to take the vaccine because they don’t know what’s in it?