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Awesome

A 7-foot tall statue of Medusa holding the severed head of Perseus will be installed in Manhattan, across from the NY County Criminal Court, the location of high profile abuse cases including the recent Harvey Weinstein trial.

I never knew this before but Medusa was stalked and raped by Poseidon and then blamed for it. She was then cursed by Athena with the snake hair and the whole turning people to stone thing. She was banished and then Perseus killed and beheaded her. This statue "inverts the narrative" as a commentary on the Me Too movement.

It will stand there until April. Look at how badass that statue is.

https://www.mwthproject.com/oct-2020

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I wrote in March when the COVID shit show started:

"We've all been joking that "this planet needs an enema" for years. Well, it appears the enema has arrived and pretty soon there's going to be a flood of shit coming out.  This is the paradigm shift we've all sensed coming—and perhaps silently prayed for—for the last few decades. We instinctively knew this capitalist-consumption-fuck-the-planet view of the world was unsustainable. We knew changes had to be made, yet as a people, we lacked the courage to do what needed to be done…. There's no going back to the way things were even a few weeks ago. The system was broken, and while this transition is going to be painful, ultimately we will all be better for it."

If 2020 has shown us one thing since then with each new bit of awful that's thrust upon us, "hold my beer" isn't limited to idiotic humans doing idiotic things. The Universe itself seems hell-bent on outdoing itself with each passing month to push us into that Brave New World—one way or another.

Even if Biden wins—and despite historic early voter turnout and the very comfortable lead he holds in nationwide polls and Trump accepts the results and peacefully transitions power—neither of which are guaranteed—things are not going to automatically return to the way they were prior to last March—or even prior to November 2016 after he assumes office. They can't. We're already on a totally different branch of the timeline and we can't travel back to the point where it splintered off. Orangecaligula's presidency—and 2020 in particular—are one of those events, like 9/11 or the Kennedy Assassination—that ultimately send us on a totally different path than the one we'd been on. And a lot of damage needs to be undone and fences mended before we can think about regaining any sense of normalcy.*

If The Orange Russian Wig Stand manages to steal the election, quite simply, we. are. fucked. It will be the end of our representative democracy, the complete destruction of our already-tarnished standing on the world stage and the rise of a totally fascist state. Hyperbole? Students of history may beg to differ on that.

 

*fans of The Fourth Turning undoubtedly saw all this coming, as the events of this year align pretty closely with the authors' 80-year cyclic view of history. And at this point even I have to agree that they may be onto something here.

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Okay, Who Had Twin Hurricanes for August?

Something more the Orange Shit Stain in the White House will undoubtedly ignore and instead head to the golf course or tweet something hateful about losers who choose to live in paths of hurricanes.

From US News & World Report:

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two tropical storms advanced across the Caribbean on Saturday night as potentially historic threats to the U.S. Gulf Coast, one dumping rain on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands while the other was pushing through the gap between Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba.

Tropical Storms Laura and Marco were both projected to approach Louisiana at or close to hurricane force just two days apart next week. A hurricane watch was issued for the New Orleans metro area, which was pummeled by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

Two hurricanes have never appeared in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time, according to records going back to at least 1900, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. The last time two tropical storms were in the Gulf together was in 1959, he said.

The last time two storms made landfall in the United States within 24 hours of each other was in 1933, Klotzbach said.

The projected tracks from the U.S. National Hurricane Center on Saturday afternoon pointed to both storms being together in the Gulf on Monday, with Marco hitting Louisiana and Laura making landfall in the same general area Wednesday. But large uncertainties remain for that time span, and forecasts have varied greatly so far for the two storms.


"We are in unprecedented times," Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said at a news conference Saturday as he declared a state of emergency. "We are dealing with not only two potential storms in the next few hours, we are also dealing with COVID-19."