Our crazy, upside-down world: porn, crime, $$$ and a prayer uh-oh

From Harper’s Weekly Review:

Porn ‘n’ crime

A Minnesota man won $75,000 in damages in a lawsuit against his parents after they threw out his “irreplaceable” collection of pornography, and a pair of burglars in Ontario apologized and offered to pay damages after breaking into the wrong house. Law-enforcement officials in Rainsville, Alabama, busted an illegal winery that had been operating at a municipal sewage plant, and an insurance-industry report found that drivers of Dodge Ram 2500 pickup trucks have the highest rate of DUIs among car owners, at more than double the national average.

$$$

U.S. Commerce Department data showed that every state in the country saw personal incomes drop in the third quarter, Census Bureau data revealed that food insecurity has doubled since last year, and Labor Department data indicated an unexpected surge in weekly jobless claims. “Concierge doctors,” who offer top-notch, 24-hour health care for wealthy patients, were overwhelmed with calls from clients offering to donate as much as $25,000 to hospitals in order to get the coronavirus vaccine early. Economists published a new study concluding that the benefits of 50 years of tax cuts for the rich have failed to trickle down.

Prayer uh-oh

In what is widely believed to be an ill portent, the blood of the patron saint of Naples, Italy, failed to liquefy after two rounds of prayer.

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