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Polybius:

All things are subject to decay and change.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Computer Illiteracy . . . 0

. . . is a thing in the Missouri Governor’s mansion.

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True Believers 0

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Public Healthiness 0

At NJ.com, Clifford Kulwin reports on his visit to a polity where the pandemic did not become politicized. A snippet:

No one enjoys wearing masks, of course, but they weren’t a source of conflict. No slipping it under the nose, no arguing with a museum guard or a flight attendant, no articles in the newspaper about groups or individuals challenging government public health edicts. Everybody followed the rules.

Shortly after my arrival, a friend emailed,“ do you feel safe there?” I answered honestly. “Safer than I do at home.”

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It’s All about the Algorithm 0

Goat:  What are you doing Rat?  Rat:  Posting something on social media that I how will go viral.  I heard their algorithms prioritize confict.  Goat:  So what did you post?  (The post:  I want to punch you in the face.

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“Social” media isn’t.

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Facebook Frolics, Running Amok Dept. 0

Mark Zuckerberg watches as car labeled

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The Ever-Shrinking Cycle of “Fiscal” Conservatism 0

PoliticalProf.

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Marcus Aurelius:

He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man’s acts.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Party politely.

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Twits on Twitter 0

A meme girl twit.

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Vaccine Nation 0

WHYY (my old NPR station when I lived in the Philly area) takes a look at how taking sensible health precautions has morphed into a theater of stupid. Here’s an excerpt; follow the link for the rest (emphasis added).

Still, the battle to inoculate the nation against the coronavirus has reached a fever pitch in recent months. President Biden has focused on getting as many Americans as possible vaccinated against the coronavirus, most notably rolling out wide-reaching vaccine mandates for government employees and for businesses with more than 100 workers.

But Republicans have grown increasingly hostile to the notion of mandatory vaccines — despite vaccine mandates existing in the background in parts of the United States since the 19th century — and have parlayed the fight against COVID-19 into a political battle, with vaccine mandates as the latest frontier in the great American defense of freedom and liberty. . . . .

“Somehow it has morphed into not getting the vaccine as a way to defend their freedom and resist this ‘tyranny,’ ” said Ken Resnicow, a professor in the school of public health at the University of Michigan. “There’s not many countries that have this dynamic.”

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Platform 0

Title:  GOP Platform for the 2022 Midterms.  Image:  Republican Elephant says,

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Karen Karen-Like 0

They just can’t seem to help it. A snippet:

The woman claimed her car was broken into, then insisted that Black fit the description of the individual who was breaking into other cars at the complex because he was wearing a hoodie and a backpack.

The apartment complex said the person accused of the break-ins was actually described as a white adolescent on a bike with a red backpack, News 4 Nashville reported. He told the news station that he believed the woman accused him because he is Black.

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Mandate Man 0

Red-hatted man holds up two documents and says,

Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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Fawn M. Brodie:

A man’s memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

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The Privatization Scam, Maskless Marauders Dept. 0

A maskless marauder drops the (figurative) mask. (Warning: short ad at the end.)

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

The Register investigates a plane truth.

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The Switch 0

A Republican with integrity. Who knew?

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