One hates to start off a day like Debbie Downer, but the NTSB submitted its report yesterday—

5 Probable Cause

The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident on board the small passenger vessel Conception was the failure of Truth Aquatics, Inc., to provide effective oversight of its vessel and crewmember operations, including requirements to ensure that a roving patrol was maintained, which allowed a fire of unknown cause to grow, undetected, in the vicinity of the aft salon on the main deck. Contributing to the undetected growth of the fire was the lack of a United States Coast Guard regulatory requirement for smoke detection in all accommodation spaces. Contributing to the high loss of life were the inadequate emergency escape arrangements from the vessel’s bunkroom, as both exited into a compartment that was engulfed in fire, thereby preventing escape

Here's some harrowing and spooky pix from the Twitter feed. Note the word "Silhouette."

I loved that dive boat… Host to some of the finest days of my decades in California.

Only men get testicular cancer. (Amy's blog, unlike other California internet enterprises, lets us say things like that.)

You just blocked me on Twitter for joking about "Amys" vs. "Karens"... nothing racist was intended, just a rather inept commentary on the coincidental fact that three people named Amy were connected with the tweet I was replying to: you, the "canceled" person, and one of the people "canceling" her. No attacks (racial or otherwise) on anybody were intended.

Is it too late to remind this woman that for most people, you're only a 'doctor' if you can set a bone (so to speak)?

• Anybody remember a brief fad for collapsible drinking cups for travellers like this circa 1970? They were useless.

• So maybe it wasn't the imperialism of Western Modernity that took the nose off the Sphinx of Giza after all. (I'd heard it was marauding drunken French soldiers.)

Gifs—

• Speaking of cats 1

• Speaking of cats 2 (I'm surprised it doesn't use claws on her back)

Is it too late to remind this woman that for most people, you're only a 'doctor' if you can set a bone (so to speak)? ~ Crid at October 21, 2020 9:34 AM

If that's the case, can someone please explain that to Dr. Phil? I think if you want to be taken seriously as a real doctor, you should use your last name.

Dr. Pepper is not a real doctor. Nor is Doctor "Bob" Dobbs.

So maybe it wasn't the imperialism of Western Modernity that took the nose off the Sphinx of Giza after all. (I'd heard it was marauding drunken French soldiers.) ~ Crid at October 21, 2020 9:48 AM

I'd heard that, too, that they shot it off.

Apple TV has purchased the rights to the Peanuts holiday specials, so they won't be shown on broadcast TV for the first time since the age of the dinosaurs.

Fortunately we can still watch "It's Motherf-n Ramadan, Charlie Brown", "It's The Great Dolemite, Charlie Brown!", and "A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa" on YouTube.

So Cuomo and Newsom have decided that New York and California can't have any Covid vaccines until they say so, because Trump.

Oh, she evil

https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1318782576912453633

Ugh, Twitter is messing with that thread. Here's the archived link:

https://archive.is/pW6ub

I have a sudden, but presumably doomed, France Boner.

But I was "Mr. Audio-Visual" in 7th grade… (Acne, awkward, scared of girls, the whole thing.) So anybody needs a new blub for an overhead projector or something, just ask.

We could use some of this around our Lincoln memorials.

I've noticed I can't see more than ~1/3 of the tweets people post. The old 'Something went wrong.' message. Hopefully it all mysteriously fixes itself on Nov. 3.

I'm glad I'm not the only one stopping by who knows about NBC's resident zampolit.

For what it's worth, here is the Revolver article about her:

Meet NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny — The Woman In Charge of Doxxing and Destroying Trump Supporters