Well, at least they'll have found their candidate in Joe Biden, assuming they remember to vote Super Thursday

Do I hear Jomentum calling?

Early-onset Alzheimer’s surging among millennials.

Between 2013 and 2017, early-onset dementia and Alzheimer's diagnoses increased by 83% among commercially insured Americans aged 30 to 44, according to a report released by the health care insurer. That age group includes the oldest millennials.

Overall, early-onset diagnoses increased by 200% among commercially insured Americans between ages 30 to 64. That included a 50% jump among those 45 to 54 and by 40% for those aged 55 to 64. 

The average patient was diagnosed at age 49.

"The results of this report are concerning, especially the increase in early-onset dementia and Alzheimer's disease among younger people," Dr. Richard Snyder, chief medical officer for Independence Blue Cross, said in a statement.

"While the underlying cause is not clear, advances in technology are certainly allowing for earlier and more definitive diagnosis. Regardless, those who develop dementia or Alzheimer's at an early age will likely require caregiving, either from family members or healthcare providers. The time, cost and impact on families can be significant and can require additional support as these diseases progress."

Bidding wars can still happen; all it takes is the right house, the right price, and two buyers to want the same thing.

156 Stanwich Road came on the market in mid-December at $2.875 million, had a contract in days, and closed yesterday for $2.950. If the link below works outside the MLS environment, scroll down to the extensive “improvements” list; any potential buyers would be impressed, as I was, and feel confident that they could move right-in without further ado. That always helps, a lot.

Improvements

That's not funny!

Controversy as Transgender Wins Jar Opening Competition

Photo credit: America’s Paper of Record

"Michelle is clearly a biological male, and allowing her to compete in the female category in our world-famous jar opening contest is unfair to the women," said Phyllis Barlow, previous champion. Barlow had won the contest three years in a row with her record-setting times of under four minutes to open a pickle jar. But now, her reign is threatened by Braxton, who rips open the jars without breaking a sweat.

"If Braxton were competing in the male division where he should be, he'd just be an average jar opener," said one commentator. "But competing against the women lets him stand out from the crowd of females, who often can only open a jar with male assistance or one of those As Seen on TV jar opening things."

Braxton will also be competing in the female division in Iowa's famed Parallel Parking 500.

You go, girl!

Photo credit: The Babylon Bee

Alex Occasional Cortex, Phd. shows up Ted Cruz by building a baking soda volcano

“Common household baking soda?” Cruz questioned. “How can you make a volcano with that? You’ve gone mad.”

“No, I just know science!” Ocasio-Cortez said and then poured vinegar into the clay volcano. It then erupted with a white foam.

Cruz was terrified. “Aiee! She’s a witch! She’s made a real volcano, and she’s going to kill us all!”

“It’s not witchcraft,” Ocasio-Cortez explained. “It’s science. Baking soda is dehydrated bubbles, and vinegar reinflates them. Water doesn’t work as water kills bubbles since they’re closely related to the aliens from Signs.”

“I’m no match for her science knowledge!” Cruz screamed as he fled from the Capitol in terror.

Well, they SHOULD be worried; Kung Flu is most virulent in filthy, third world environments

March 2, 2020, homeless control: San Francisco municipal worker sprays coronavirus spores on city sidewalk

Better than bulldozers and firehoses: LA health officials worried about Kung Flu wiping out their homeless camps

Over at PowerLine, Scott Johnson says he's filing this under "Laughter is the Best Medicine" folder, but I find it scary. And sad.

There’s the little rascal! I’ll distract him, you net him, Eunice

Joe’s at it again and just in time for Super Tuesday

"My name is Joe Biden, I'm a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, vote for me on Super Thursday in North South Carolina because we hold these truths to be self-evident all men and women created by the, you know, the thing."

Update: watching this again, and seeing the same confused, scared look on Biden’s face that I’ve witnessed in family members with Alzheimer’s, I think it’s cruel to make fun of this man, as I did here. He seems really to have lost it, and I hope he’s eased off the stage gently, but quickly. I never liked the man’s politics, but this transcends mere secular concerns.

Bernie voters explained: our intellectual betters really ARE that stupid

How nice of them to provide entertainment for us, the great unwashed

Advanced degrees in modern post-feminine dance from Banard notwithstanding, the rich socialists in Brooklyn are panicking, and things are getting rough down on Park Slope.

Coronavirus panic has sent the famously crunchy Park Slope Food Coop into “chaos” as people stockpile organic goods to brace for a local outbreak  — with a skirmish breaking out over a can of tuna fish, according to members.

The famed Brooklyn produce collective saw its fair-trade food flying off the shelves Monday morning, just hours after New York City’s first case of coronavirus was confirmed.

“There is nothing on the shelves. It’s chaos,” said Henderson Paternell, a nine-year member of the socialist-tinged Union Street supermarket.

Some of the members reported that perishable items such as soups, peanut butter, rice and oats were out of stock.

Claire Unabia James, who has been a member for 13 years, said she was “so surprised to see it so crazy inside.”

“One woman told me she got in a fight. A woman pushed her for the last can of tuna fish,” James told The Post.

The rush has forced the coop — which requires members to work 2 hours and 45 minutes every four weeks — to call in reinforcements Sunday from those who needed to make up missed shifts.

The co-op has had problems in the past with members sending their nannies to cover their shifts. If Trump were truly the malicious Machiavellian these people think he is, he’d order their hired help into quarantine and let the elite work, or starve.

Feeling the heat, or just hoping to avoid the expense of taking new, seasonal pictures?

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, with Instamatic

36 Zaccheus Mead Lane cut its price $1.480 million today to $7.249 million, down from $8.729. Back in November, its builder tried listing it off the MLS at $10 million, and neither this author nor any readers were impressed. Two readers guessed that it might, possibly, fetch a $5 number, given enough time; others were less charitable. We’ll see.

Works for me

New today is Jack Paar’s (ask your grandfather) former house at 9 Chateau Ridge, asking $2.595 million. I haven’t seen it since it was sold by the Paar estate for $2.225 back in 2007, when it understandably looked a bit worn; the house may have been built in 1984, but Paar showed up on earth in 1918, and even before his death in ‘04 was showing his age. The new owner seems to have done a great job bringing it back.

Chateau Ridge is a bit off the beaten path, but not too much so: up Round Hill Road just past the Merritt, hang a left on Porchuck, and the street’s on your left just a little way in.

Four bedrooms, nice land, privacy. Obviously not for everyone, but I like it.

Lock him up!

I’ve got this little pain right here, and a slight cough, but I’m fine, really — I’m fine! Cough cough, sniffle.

Did Chris Murphy bring home the bacon from his secret spy trip?

This year’s Munich Security Conference may go down in history as the COVID-19 viral super-spreader “event of the century," if not in all of recorded history.  That’s because the Munich 2020 event took place from February Friday 14-Sunday 16, and Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif attended. 

Unknown to apparently all the high security-minded attendees, FM Zarif was likely carrying much more than the dark secret that the COVID-19 virus had already begun rampaging through the highest echelons of the Iranian government and society.  FM Zarif , or one of his minions, was likely carrying the actual COVID-19, and infected who knows how many of the world’s highest and most influential politicians at the Munich event. 

In fact, US Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, not only met FM Zarif, but met him in Zarif’s hotel suite where there was likely a rat’s nest of COVID-19.  Unless drastic steps are taken, Sen. Murphy may become the Typhoid Mary of COVID-19, and infect the entire US Senate and House of Representatives.

Which brings us to Sen. Murphy’s fateful Saturday February 15 close in-person meeting in FM Zarif’s actual hotel suite.

The meeting was actually very extensive and detail and went on for a significant amount of time because Sen. Murphy wrote that he discussed numerous complex and serious issues with FM Zarif.  They talked Yemen, hostages held by Iran, and what Sen. Murphy describes as the “assassination” of of Iran’s arch-terrorist Soleimani.  Such deep and weighty issues must have taken at least an hour.  That means Sen. Murphy and his staff were in FM Zarif’s personal quarters, where all Zarif’s staff was circulating, for at least a full hour. 

To make matters worse, Sen Murphy admits he was “exhausted” the next morning. Sen. Murphy goes on to say, “Sunday morning[the day after the hour-long Zarif evening meeting], exhausted, I climb onto a plane for the long ride back to the United States. My extended family always takes a vacation together during the kids’ February school break, and I am a day late in joining the rest of the Murphy clan. To do this job right, it takes immense amounts of time away from family. That’s the worst part of this job. But on trips like this, when you feel like, even as just a rank-and-file Senator, you made a difference for the security of the country, it makes the time away a little easier to endure.”

In other words, not only has Sen. Murphy probably caught the deadly COVID-19, he has also likely infected his entire “extended family.”  If Sen. Murphy, or one of his staff, has contracted COVID-19, expect Washington DC to go into a total panic. 

Okay, all of the above is hysterical claptrap from an Israeli source, but is this any time to take chances? I suppose we can’t lock the sorry bastard away forever, but could we quarantine Murphy for say, twelve years, when the world’s going to end anyway? That’s got my vote.

(Related, from Clouds, silver lining Dept. of: yet another top Iranian drops dead.)