Yesterday’s nutty conspiracy theory is today’s headline

How many Covid-related things were conspiracy theories before they were mainstream, acceptable ideas? Let’s see …

  • The virus was engineered in a lab in China.
  • Cloth masks don’t do anything useful.
  • After you’re vaccinated you can still get and spread Covid.

There have also been reports of the vaccines interfering with women’s fertility. (Conspiracy!! Ban that lunatic!) But now …

EU investigates reports of menstrual disorders after mRNA Covid shots

The Pelosi Gazpacho is coming for your soup spoons

I haven’t followed her closely, but Marjorie Taylor Greene sounds like a bit of a loose canon. She reminds me of Sarah Palin — kinda mostly on the right side of things, but with a few screws that need tightening.

In a news conference where she is (correctly) calling attention to possible abuses by the Capitol Police, she made an amusing gaffe. See ‘Gazpacho Police’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Pelosi Spying on Congress in Scheme Involving Cold Spanish Soup.

Everybody who speaks in public says silly things from time to time, and it’s not right to distract from a legit political message by focusing on the gaffe. But this one was funny.