Sure enough, it had captured the accident. My friend asked, "What do you think happened?" and I replied, "I don't know but I might have it on video." One of my security cameras captures the front of my house and also a nice chunk of the street outside. Neighbors were spilling out to see and the folks in the cars were tending to cuts and starting to exchange info.
Medical attention was needed but it didn't appear anyone was seriously hurt. My friend's car was fine but three cars in the intersection outside my house weren't fine, nor were all their occupants. Worried that one of those cars might have been my friend's parked out front, we sprinted outside. One minute before 4 PM, I was with a friend of mine who's visiting and we heard a couple of those chilling THUMPs of cars hitting cars. It didn't work that well as a game show but unlike certain rallies I could mention, it was a nice example to put before America. If they had, there wouldn't have been as much need for the six-foot separations…but then I realized: Without them, it wouldn't have been as good an ad for enforcing social-distancing and other precautions. It felt fake and forced and at one point, I got to wondering if everyone had been tested. They all came on dancing and one even did a cartwheel.
And the pre-selected contestants were obviously chosen for and coached to be super-enthusiastic. Here, there was no audience helping the guy who didn't know the price of a blender or whatever it was…so less wins than usual. One contestant once even won both showcases with an on-the-nose bid which came from someone in the audience. They were playing traditional Price is Right games, many of which are routinely won on the regular show because the studio audience is shouting out numbers. The contestants were, like on Let's Make a Deal, essential workers who deserve lots of rewards for the job they've been doing but not a lot of them won anything, and everyone stayed six-feet apart. They piped in a low-level audience presence sound which made it spooky, like ghosts were filling the seats we didn't see out there. The Price is Right, which I sometimes like to watch was…odd. And if I can't like it with Wayne Brady, who I think is one of the great talents of television… I couldn't make it through Let's Make a Deal but then I've never really been able to enjoy that show - not with Monty in the first place, not with anyone else who's hosted it since. The other night, CBS aired prime-time episodes of The Price is Right and Let's Make a Deal, both recorded recently and with all sorts of adjustments for social-distancing and no real studio audience. It's kind of a non-smoking smoking gun loaded with blanks and pointed at the wrong target. Reporters simply cannot see enough of the so-called evidence to determine if there's any "there" there…and at worst, none of it seems to implicate the person actually running for president. He's not letting them look too closely at what he claims to have unearthed. Rudy Giuliani is running around screaming (literally) that the press is covering for Joe Biden by not reporting on the "new" Hunter Biden revelations but as Kevin Drum notes, the press has been trying to and has been blocked by, among other obstacles, Rudy Giuliani. But right now Joe Biden's in about as good a position as you could hope your guy would be in the Saturday before Election Day.Īs I understand it, the legal theory Trump and his crew are going to push on Election Day is that in each state, they should count ballots until such time as Trump is ahead and then stop counting, disqualify the rest and then award him the state. (These are the odds of him winning, not the percentage of the vote he'll get.)Ĭan he still win? Sure. The Economist currently has him back down to 4%. When he hit 7, of course I thought, "Oh no! He's gaining a point a day! By Tuesday, he might be up to 11%!" Nate Silver's site had him at 11% for a long time and currently has him down to 10. The election projections over at The Economist have been fluctuating between Trump having a 4% chance of winning and then for about half a day, a 7% chance. Lost a lot of respect for him when he began talking about how women should be slapped around. Loved the James Bond movies he was in…liked a few of his other screen appearances. I've had no trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood for over a decade and would expect zero tonight even if Halloween hadn't been more or less called-off.Īnd I have nothing to say about the late Sean Connery that a zillion other folks aren't saying on the web today. I won't repost my annual "I've never liked Halloween" post (it's here if you must read it) but I'm fine without that holiday in my year.
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