#197 In which we are not leaving on a jet plane

Usually the ConstiToonies staff heads out for points unknown on the weekends, but with the government shutdown evacuating most of our favorite airports, we will be forced to staycate for the next few days and ponder things like Tesla shareholders approving a trillion dollar package for Elon Musk. Unlike most people across the globe, Tesla shareholders apparently don’t follow the news about Tesla sales or, well, Tesla in general, or, for that matter, Elon Musk. Then there’s Wole Soyinka getting his US visa revoked because of the unthinkable: the Nobel Prize winner criticized Donald Trump. How could anyone do such a thing? And then there’s the just announced renovation of the Lincoln bathroom in stunning gold and marble, reflective, says the boss, of Lincoln’s own times. Honest Abe probably pooped more often in the outhouse than in some palace of gilded splendor, but if anyone knows the inner workings of the mind of Abraham Lincoln, it’s Donald J. Trump. 

So until the airports go back to business as usual, we are stuck surfing the internet. Boingboing.net recently reported this headline, the pondering of which we think is a much better use of our time than following politics in the USA: “Japan aquarium lets visitors smell animal butts for education.” Now that is DEI!