March, 2020 archive
Republican Family Values, “Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother” Dept. 0
Aside:
A small quibble: Trump did not make the remark about grandparents sacrificing themselves, but he might as well have.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Maintain your social distance, politely.
(snip)
The women, who were not hurt during the incident, told police that they were “wearing medical masks and gloves when they entered the post office” in Alpharetta, a city 25 miles north of Atlanta. Upon walking into the post office, they were immediately met by the gun-toting Taratoot, police say.
The Electronic Medicine Show 0
FBI arrests coronavirus snake oil salesman for wire fraud.
Natch, he was hawking his phony cures via videos on “social” media.
The Robber Barons Are Casing the Joint 0
At the Inky, Maria Panaritis explains.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Farron catalogs Donald Trump’s lies about coronavirus.
Geeking Out 0
Slackware –Current with the XFCE desktop running in a VirtualBox virtual machine on Mageia v. 7 with the Plasma desktop, xclock, and GKrellm.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
Two recent posts at Psychology Today Blogs offer insight into the intersection between political leanings and failure to take seriously–even to actively discount–the seriousness of the rapid spread of COVID-19.
Nassir Ghaemi offers a taxonomy of disease deniers:
Meanwhile, Nigel Barber identifies an irony:
Given the confused and chaotic–often self-contradictory–response to the coronavirus by the current Federal Administration and tendency of many to, say, confuse a Facebook frolic with a fact, I commend both pieces as being worth the few moments it will take to read them.
Aside:
My grad school professor for early federal period history, Dr. Shade, was fond of saying that “history is irony.”
Far too often, history has proven him correct, as when the United States went from having its first black President to having the most racist President since Woodrow Wilson.
Both Sides Don’t 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., fears that the United States will not find unity to combat the threat of the coronavirus. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
And I’m sorry, but you’ll read no false equivalence here — not even in the service of hoped-for reconciliation. Because the truth matters. And the truth is, it was the political right that seceded from that greater and larger “us,” that inculcated in its adherents a sense of separateness, that made of them an island warmed by a burn of permanent grievance.
Follow the link for the rest.
