Skipping a Day

I didn't have anything coherent to say yesterday about my own life. At least, not here.

For your amusement, there's this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-bus-turkeys-1.5389038

Tom Leroux tells me these NRC birds are regulars in that part of Ottawa. No idea if they've made research presentations at NRC, of course. :-)

McKinsey Again

Looking at this:

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-paid-mckinsey-millions-to-stem-jail-violence-instead-violence-soared#172775

Wondering if that company has a motto saying "Do evil"...and we're just now finding out that Pete Buttegieg used to work there before he became mayor of South Bend, IL and has recently used that mayorship as a springboard to a presidential candidacy in the US.

A musical warning for the evening...

"And in the absence of a vision there are nightmares
And in the absence of compassion there is cancer
Whose banner waves over palaces and mean streets
And the rhythm of the night train is a mantra..."

Bruce Cockburn, The Charity of Night 1996

Weird Job Offers I Should NOT Be Getting

For election clerking position with the County Clerk's Office in Cook County, Illinois. I got an offer letter intended for someone with the same given name-family name combination as me living a lot closer to Cook County than Canada-bound me.