2021 archive
Twits on Twitter 0
One more time, why does anyone pay attention to David Brooks?
Vaccine Nation 0
In a thoughtful article at The Seattle Times, Danny Westneat compares the different approaches to delivering COVID-19 vaccines in the neighboring states of Washington and Oregon and the larger implications thereof.
Here’s a bit:
At its core is an uncomfortable question that nobody wants to fall on the wrong side of: Who really is essential in a society?
So who’s up next?
Here in these parts we are seeing similar arguments being played out on a much smaller scale as neighboring cities struggle with questions of, for example, reopening schools and restarting high school sports. Westneat offers a reasonable and reasoned assessment of the situation.
QOTD 0
Fiona Gillies, in the voice of Susanna Aurifaber:
In this world, what receive and what we deserve are rarely the same.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
The Bangor Daily News reports on a Maine Redditor who invested in Game Stop:
Via Atrios, David Dayen has more.
Aside:
Frankly, a strong case can be made that short-selling, basically betting against a company’s success, should be banned.
Chronicling Covidiocy 0
Gene Collier tells the “The Curious Case of the Skunk in the Moonlight.”
(Re)define Your Terms 0
PoliticalProf notes a trend (emphasis added):
Follow the link for his suggestions.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Elizabeth Dye marvels at the Republican Party’s sudden conclusion that Executive Orders are bad. An excerpt:
And if memory serves, there was a time when it was perfectly acceptable for the White House to freeze the defense allocation to an Eastern European ally whose leader wouldn’t knuckle under pressure to announce an investigation of a presidential candidate.
But those days are over.
Rand Gestures 0
Warning: Short commercial at the 6:30 mark.
