Wednesday Wonders: Nov. 11, 2020
It’s been a week already? For most of you, I know the big happy news of the week was election-related. But in the interest of continued sanity and inner peace, I’m keeping partisan politics out of the Wednesday Wonders.
The good news is…
Don Stevens, the chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation, showed some distinctly 2020 tribal leadership and volunteered in a vaccine trial, VTDigger reports. “As a leader, I would not ask our citizens to do anything I would not do myself,” Stevens said.
Professional badass Emily Harrington free-climbed Yosemite’s El Capitan in less than 24 hours. That means she did it with only her body, and the rope was only there if she fell. No pulling her way up someone else’s line. I don’t think I could crawl a half-mile on a horizontal granite surface in a day, so props.
The hilarious, self-deprecating and often political ESPN radio host Dan Le Batard was back on the air today after he scared the crap out of fans by going radio silent (pun intended; come on I’m a professional) for three days after ESPN laid off hundreds of staff. But that’s not the feel-good news, this is: Producer Chris Cote was one of the cut staffers, but he was on today’s show anyways because Le Batard hired him back, with a raise, using his own money. That’s classy.
In the U.K., new diagnoses of HIV among gay and bisexual men are at their lowest level in 20 years. Which I guess means we can all party like it’s 1999.
Be safe.