May, 2020 archive
“Lethal Incompetence” 0
Experiments fail, even noble ones.
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood, in the voice of Dr. MacMillan:
‘Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about. Beware of the living.
(Kerry Greenwood makes words dance.)
Greenwood, Kerry, Cocaine Blues in Introducing the Honourable Phryne Fisher,
a trilogy (Scottsdale, AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 2011), p. 47
“Nobody Could Have Predicted . . . .” 0
Yet many persons did.
In my local rag, Steven T. Corneliussen rounds up a list of warnings of the possibility of and need to be prepared for a global pandemic reaching back almost three decades.
Numbers Gaming 0
Sam and his guest do the math and discover (surprise!) that the Trump administration is fudging the statistics on the effects of COVID-19.
Fed Up 0
Long-time Alabama Republican John Meredith (who happens to be not white) has had enough. Here’s a bit from his article at AL.com:
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
This passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
An invasive forest of Nathan Bedford Saplings runs amok.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Well, this should work out well (about as well as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, that is).
Two Misdirection Plays for the Price of One, Going Viral Dept. 0
Trudy Rubin skewers Donald Trump’s attempt to pass all the bucks to China.
Will Bunch lampoons Trump’s attempt to himself into a reality-TV parody of a “wartime president.”
Read ’em both.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Apologetic politeness:
The man who fired the shot reportedly spoke with the two victims and apologized, but then left the scene.
Police say the man, 59-year-old Scott Brown, has been charged with third-degree assault and second-degree reckless endangerment.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
The Fix Isn’t In 0
At the Washington Monthly, David Atkins suggests that one reason Donald Trump has so severely bobbled the COVID-19 pandemic is that the coronavirus does not respond to his usual tools in his toolbox.
A virus, unlike porn stars, creditors, or contractors, can’t be bullied, bought, or BSed into submission.
Inventory 0
Connie Schultz tries to wrap her mind around the damage done to the polity in just three years of Donald Trump.