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Vaccine Nation 0
Writing at nola.com, James Gill has had enough. A snippet:
America has had mandatory vaccinations for various diseases going back to the days of George Washington, and the current hysteria over the imaginary threat they pose to individual liberty is nothing new either. So far, sweet reason has always prevailed in the end, and so it will this time once we accept that there is no rational debate to be held with those who refuse to take precautions.
(Broken link fixed.)
Geeking Out 0
Listening to The Bishop’s Secret by Fergus Hume using QMMP on Ubuntu MATE under the Plasma Desktop. The wallpaper is from my collection.
Aside:
The Bishop’s Secret is a darn good listen. As a mystery, it is so-so. As a comedy of manners, it is superb.
Vaccine Nation 0
In related news, the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini marvels at the pretzel logic of those who would perpetuate pandemics.
The No-Account Recount, Epilog 0
A clip:
Sometimes you have to eat your own to maintain the lie.
A Case of Identity Politics 0
Tim Steller looks at the assumptions behind the voter fraud fraud and Arizona’s no-account recount. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
By logical extension, their votes should not count. And if their votes are counted, democracy itself is the problem.
Aside:
In his list of characteristics, methinks he left out the one that underlies and ties together all the others: Whiteness.
QOTD 0
Pete Seeger:
Afterthought:
Karl Marx was an excellent economist, but a lousy prophet. His analysis of the past was as accurate as his prediction of the future fantastickal.
I have long believed that his prophet’s vision of a “dictatorship of the proletariat” leading to a world of “from each according to his abilities to each according to his means” was a desperate, deluded fantasy–an intellectual short-circuit–born of his economist seeing no way to escape capitalist dystopia.
Maskless Marauders, Making Sense of Stupid Dept. 0
Writing at the Idaho State Journal, Mike Murphy offers a theory as to what’s behind the mania of the maskless marauders.
His piece is so well crafted–well, just go read it for yourself.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet more random acts of politeness . . . .
And thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Vaccine Nation 0
Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro (emphasis in the original):
We are a society of stupid.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Down home in Alabama . . . .
Much more rising again at the link.