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May, 2020 archive

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Glenn Gould:

Behind every silver lining, there’s a cloud.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Demonstrate politeness whilst utilizing your automotive conveyances.

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Stray Thought, Long Time Out Dept. 0

You know the Sports Department at my local rag is getting desperate from the lack of sports news when they run the results of the Canadian Football League draft on the sports page where they would normally have box scores.

I can’t find it on their website, but I saw it with my own eyes.

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The Maskless Marauder 0

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The Epidemiologist Exults 0

Donald Trump standing in the middle of a circle of body bags shouting,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Last week, the Secesh invaded the capitol of Michigan.

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Anniversary 0

Despite Disney’s attempts to turn today into “Star Wars Day” (whatever the heck that means, this is what deserves to be memorialized today.

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Abbie Hoffman:

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

You must pack some heat in case those leaves you are raking decide to fight back, do you not?

Hanson said the gun owner, a 24-year-old man from Warren, had just finished raking leaves. As the man was walking to a table, he and the victim discovered the weapon was about to fall out of the holster, and in the shuffle the weapon accidentally discharged, shooting the victim through the wrist.

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Cooking the Books 0

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.

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Supply Change, Reprise 0

The Washington Monthly explores why, even as we as shoppers are greeted by shortages and empty shelves at our grocery stores, farmers are dumping milk and killing livestock because they are unable to get them to market.

They pose this questions; follow the link to see how they answer it:

How is it that Americans can face shortages, and in some cases go hungry, while farmers face a glut so large they’re deliberately wasting food?

(Syntax error corrected.)

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Decline and Fall 0

Werner Herzog’s Bear is not sanguine.

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Covidiocy 0

AL.com’s Francis Coleman has had enough of fools and their foolishness.

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Cavalcade of COVID 0

Der Spiegel assigned a team of reporters to chronicle the United States’s response it COVID-19. Waht that found was not pretty. Here’s a bit from the intro:

A team of DER SPIEGEL reporters followed – by telephone, WhatsApp and Skype – more than a dozen people through the pandemic over the course of several weeks. Their stories show just how negligently the U.S. president acted as he sought to play down the pandemic and how dramatically the federal government has failed in the face of this health emergency. At the same time, people who had little knowledge of viruses until now – public administrators, policewomen, company executives and more – rose to the occasion. It became the hour of the courageous and resolute – and also of the preachers of hate.

I commend the article to your attention.

It’s a painful read, but a necessary one.

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Amy Tan:

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you’re in control.

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Truth-in-Labeling 0

PoliticalProf.

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Story Time 0

https://assets.amuniversal.com/8a3ec5406d3e0138fdb3005056a9545d

Click for the original image.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Covidiot twits.

And, speaking of Covidiots . . . .

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