I beg your pardon
(If you like this post, do read others on my blog. Or follow my blog. Its free 😀) We all know about the vaccine race. A bit less visible is the pardon race, with thousands lining up to get a pardon from Trump before he is kicked out of the White House on Jan 20th. To see how difficult and desperate that race is, I decided to ask for a pardon myself. In some ways, both races are similar. Earlier this week, the CDC met to decide who would get the vaccine first - a fraught decision with political ramifications. After much discussion, they decided the first recipients would be essential frontline workers (in health care and retail). Also this week the TCC met to discuss who should get a pardon first- also a fraught decision with political ramifications. As Andy Borowitz put it, “The White House is facing the daunting task of distributing thousands of pardons to those who are desperately in need. In an effort to insure an orderly rollout of pardons, the Trump Administration announced th