A Faucist Christmas in Las Vegas
Here are some photos from a recent trip to Las Vegas.
For maximum understatement, a chrome Ferrari…
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We brought our masks and vaccine papers when visiting a friend on this street…
At Red Rock Canyon:
The “I Love Butts” car nearby:
And the souvenirs at Cottonwood Station, a great café on the way to Pahrump from Red Rock:
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At the Mob Museum, we learned that the original plan for Las Vegas was that debauchery would be confined to 1/40th of the town:
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Today, by contrast, gambling, alcohol, and marijuana are available seemingly everywhere. The museum reminds us that Nevada was once notable for its divorce industry. Note that this was prior to the no-fault (“unilateral”) divorce revolution. These were divorces in which the husband and wife (only two gender IDs back then!) had agreed to the procedure.
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In adjacent panels, the curators remind us that precious Black Americans are more likely to be killed by police than expandable white Americans and that this disparity is due to bias (not, for example, that one racial group is more likely to be involved in activities that interest the police).
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The museum reminds us that Walter White in Breaking Bad was a pioneer in protection against SARS-CoV-2. Here’s the public school teacher’s mask solution:
ARIA does some great things with 2000 lbs. of sugar:
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Four of us went to (and loved) the latest Cirque du Soleil show: Mad Apple at New York New York.
The on-stage comedians were Harrison Greenbaum and Orny Adams. Greenbaum ridiculed the folks in the theater who had chosen to enter this crowded venue while wearing masks. “You think Covid is going to come in here, see that you’re masked, and go back to its home at Circus Circus?” He then pointed out that there were quite a few diseases worse than Covid that one might contract at Circus Circus. The audience members who were wearing with non-professionally fit masks of various types could be said to be Faucists. Instead of staying home, their Covid-avoidance strategy was to enter a crowded casino and then sit in a sold-out theater… while wearing a cloth mask. This is a principle of Faucism from spring 2020.
Over at the Bellagio, the conservatory features a “Bears on Coke” theme and the Faucism Believers had voluntarily entered the casino with masks that had 1/2-1″ air gaps visible at the sides and bottom, even when a beard was not worn.
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Caesar’s Palace goes big on the poinsettias:
Venice is famous for masks.
The Wynn lobby has a beautiful garden:
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Let’s not forget these heroes:
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And, at the airport, a nation that dares is given an important rabbit safety reminder:
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Also at the airport, kid art represented as a mosaic of smaller kid art (database by the kids; photomosaic by Rob Silvers):
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Also at the airport, Cheetos and popcorn marketed as “fresh”:
Certainly there is no way that a virus that attacks the obese can touch us!
That’s the story from Vegas. Some creative decorations. Lots of folks who are trying to avoid COVID-19 by following Dr. Fauci’s advice (perfectly safe to leave the house so long as you’ve got your cloth or surgical mask).
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