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Not so much about Carlos this week, but more about the things I say …

We had a Zoom meeting at work the other day with a prospective client named Leila, and one of my co-workers, who is notoriously bad at names, couldn’t remember Leila. She kept asking me:

“What’s her name? What’s her name again?"

And I said:

“Leila! Lay-La!”

“Oh, like Eric Clapton.”

“NO! Eric is an entirely different name!”

You know how dogs always cock their heads to one side and look at you quizzically when you speak to them? That’s how most people look at me when I talk.

And I’m good with it.

It’s no wonder Tuxedo is my favorite pet of all time; he and I think exactly alike.

Dr. Deborah Birx, the last administration’s White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator who is most known for her scarves and sitting idly by while Thing #45—blatantly stolen from Todd at arteegee—will join ActivePure Technology, a Texas manufacturer that says its products reduce COVID-19 on surfaces and in the air,

Once a snake oil salesman …

I hate to say this because I feel a bit like a perv but there’s something about Harry Styles that butters my bread, revs my motor, makes me feel funny, down there.

That’s all.

Police in Pennsylvania arrested Raffaela Spone, left, a 50-year-old Bucks County woman, for sending her teen daughter’s cheerleading coaches fake photos and videos depicting her rivals naked, drinking, or smoking, to try to get them kicked off the squad.

Wow. All that to get her daughter a spot on the cheer squad.

PS There were no indications that Spone’s daughter knew what her mother was doing.

Oh, and then in Florida, Laura Rose Carroll, right, an assistant principal, and her daughter, were arrested after hacking into dozens of student accounts to cast fake votes to help the daughter become homecoming queen.

Carroll and her daughter cast nearly 250 votes in Tate High School’s homecoming court election.

Seriously? Seriously? Serious-fucking-ly?

The GQP-majority Oklahoma state House has passed a bill that would grant immunity to drivers who “unintentionally” run over protesters.

Yup. If you go to a protest in Oklahoma and then get in your car and mow down protesters, simply tell the police it was “unintentional,” and that you didn’t mean to maim or kill anyone, you were just “fleeing from a riot” because you had a “reasonable belief” that fleeing would protect you from harm.  

This new legislation would remove criminal or civil liability for any driver who “unintentionally” injures or kills someone while it also allows protesters to be charged with a misdemeanor if they “unlawfully obstruct” traffic, punishable by up to a year in jail and $5,000 in fines.   

Run over a protester, get a slap on the wrist. Stop traffic, spend a year in jail.

And over there in Louisville, Kentucky, where it has been one year since Breonna Taylor was murdered in her home by police, the state Senate passed a bill to enhance penalties for crimes related to rioting.

GQP Senator Danny Carroll, a retired police officer, said his Senate Bill would crack down on those who "tried to destroy the city of Louisville" in the civil unrest last year after, again, Breonna Taylor was murdered in her home by police using a No-Knock warrant. Oh, and in addition to that lunacy, Carroll’s bill would make it a crime to provoke an officer verbally to the point it could provoke a violent response.

You see, apparently in Louisville, if you’re mean to a police officer and they can’t handle it, they will kill you; it’s a play on sticks and stones may break my bone but words will never hurt me, unless you’re in Louisville and use your words against a police officer in which case you will die.

But then in Minneapolis, the City Council unanimously approved a $27 million settlement in the civil lawsuit brought by the family of George Floyd. Now, clearly, no amount of money will bring George Floyd back, but perhaps this will get those in charge in Minneapolis to rethink their policies like, oh, I dunno, kneeling on a man’s neck until he dies.

The settlement includes $500,000 to be spent on community efforts near the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, which has become known as George Floyd Square.

Alejandro Cifo Capilla is a Latino model , and y’all know I loves me some, well, one, Latino man. But Alejandro is worthy of a second, third, fourth look.

He was elected Mister Supranational Spain 2017, and then represented Spain at one of the biggest international male modelling competitions in the world—Mister Supranational in Poland—and won first runner up award, along the Mister Photogenic award at the pageant. And I have titled him with the Mister Rock My World award. Just sayin’.