March, 2020 archive
QOTD 0
Agatha Christie:
The world nowadays is rather like a mad nursery rime.
Christie, Agatha, A Three-Act Tragedy (New York: Berkley, 1984), p. 168.
Contagion, Reprise 0
Speaking of said less than competent response, here’s a view from the trenches.
Contagion 0
Chauncey DeVega analyzes the role of racism in the spread of coronavirus in the United States and in the federal government’s less than competent response thereunto.
No summary or excerpt will do his piece justice. Just read it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Apocryphal politeness:
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
Uncoordinated 0
An interstate trucker draws on her own experience to talk with Thom about the need for a coordinated national response to COVID-19.
Rand Gestures, Going Viral Dept. 0
Rand Paul puts the stall on the coronavirus testing bill because he just has to randstand.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
The Vacuum, Going Viral Dept. 0
The San Francisco Chronicle’s John Diaz states what COVID-19 has made even more obvious, obvious at least to those outside the Fox News/AM talk radio bubble. A nugget (emphasis added):
The president of the United States has been trying to hoodwink us from the start as if we were just another group of suckers being pitched on one of his properties. This time, however, the Trumpian snake oil was at a severe cost to our health, our jobs and our 401(k) balances.
Follow the link for the rest.
Bait and Switch 0
What happens if you are ill and get unknowingly referred to an “out of network” health care provider?
Why, you get to shake the fee hand of the market.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Responsible gun owners invariably demonstrate their politeness for the benefit of their neighbors.
The caller reported that she believed someone had fired a gun when a bullet came through the wall of her apartment. At the time of the incident, the caller’s boyfriend and her 4-year-old child were inside the apartment.
Coronastupid 0
David discusses the cavalcade of stupid with which some Americans have greeted COVID-19.
Twits on Twitter 0
Little Marco goes through a bad spell.
The CIA Conspiracy Theory Conspiracy Theory 0
As with almost all, if not all, contemporary convoluted political conspiracy theories, it turns out that there is no there there.
A Trumpled Emergency 0
A Poem, Not by Henry Gibson:
Thank heavens for governors with guts,
Though they hardly make up for President Putz.
