Bad week for:

Willie Brown, former mayor of San Francisco, who was commemorated in the “In Memoriam” segment of the BET Awards telecast. Brown, 86, is still alive, unlike Willie Brown, Hall of Fame cornerback for the Oakland Raiders. The still-living Brown said he hopes “all my creditors take notice.”

DIY disinfection, after a Michigan library asked that people please stop microwaving books to try to kill the coronavirus, since it causes the books’ metal radio-frequency tags to “catch fire.” Queen Elizabeth II, whose Balmoral estate is being used as an “outdoor toilet” by hikers while public facilities are closed by the pandemic. “If you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go,” estate officials said, but please “bury feces in a shallow hole and replace the turf.”