News Round-Up: January 4, 2021

Screen capture from Brokeback Mountain

Screen capture from Brokeback Mountain
Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (screen capture)
Some news items you might have missed: • Out Magazine: The author of Brokeback Mountain says she wishes she’d never written the story because so many people now pen fan fiction based on the characters attempting to give ‘Ennis’ and ‘Jack’ a happy ending. • Acadiana Advocate: Nineteen-year-old Holden White is lucky to have survived a Grindr date gone horribly wrong during which he was strangled, stabbed, hit in the head, and nearly had his hands sawed off. • BosGuy: The new year is here and so is the 2021 Warwick Rowers calendar (below).
The 2021 Warwick Rowers calendar is here
(image via BosGuy)
Associated Press: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a new 6-week lockdown for England in an attempt to get the new quickly spreading variant of the coronavirus under control. Under the new rules, schools and colleges will be closed for face to face learning except for the children of key workers and vulnerable pupils; all nonessential services like hairdressers will be closed, and restaurants can only operate takeout services. • KFOR News: An Oklahoma City gar bar has been vandalized with food two nights in a row. • Right Wing Watch: Lin Wood, an attorney who has partnered with leaders of the “Stop the Steal” movement and has called on Trump to declare martial law and use the military to oversee a new election, charged on Twitter in the early hours of Monday morning, “I believe Chief Justice John Roberts & a multitude of powerful individuals worldwide are being blackmailed in a horrendous scheme involving rape & murder of children captured on videotape.”

Trump Lawyer Files Lawsuit ‘Under Plenty Of Perjury’

Lin Wood (image: public domain/White House)
With a crack legal team like this, it really is hard to believe Donald Trump’s lawyers have lost dozens and dozens and dozens of times in their attempts to rewrite the presidential election. #SarcasmIntended Attorney L. Lin Wood, who continues to keep the legal community in a stitch with his typos and misstatements, filed a pro se lawsuit in Georgia federal court on Friday with what we all hope is a typo. Prior to his signature on the last page of the filing is the following verification section: “Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1746, I declare and verify under plenty of perjury that the facts contained in the foregoing Verified Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief are true and correct.” Bolding is mine. The language is Wood’s.