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Amendment, Amended 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice discusses the reasoning of a “Constitutional originalist” judge who has forcefully argued that the 2nd Amendment did not “originally” mean what the gun manufacturers and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers claim it does. A snippet:
Follow the link for his full explication.
Vaccine Nation, Triage Dept. 0
Idaho’s hospitals are filling up with COVID patients, so much so that the state is implementing a plan that involves rationing care. Here’s a bit of the story (emphasis added); details at the link.
Meanwhile, Mistermix looks for the common denominator among the states with the worst COVID numbers.
Me! Me! Me! Me! Me! Me! 0
At the Hartford Courant, Jennifer Schneider bemoans the loss of the concept of the common good.
QOTD 0
Stephen Kinzer:
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
Q. E. D.
Geeking Out 0
I do likes me my pretty pictures.
Mageia v. 8 with Fluxbox. GKrellM and Xclock are to the right. Thunderbird and Firefox are shaded in a tabbed window. The wallpaper is from my collecction.
And, no, you can’t shade or tab applications if you use Windows.
Flag Daze 0
Florida Man has his Trump flag stolen and finds a note.
Vaccine Nation 0
Writing at The Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin argues the anti-vaxs, anti-mask crowd has a strange and dangerous notion of “liberty.” A snippet (emphasis added):
Follow the link for his reasoning.
(Broken link fixed.)
Hazards 0
Robin Alcarian is also fed up with the governors of what blogger Ted McLaughlin has dubbed “The Petri Dish States.” A nugget:
In response to legal threats by Republican governors like Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Biden was blithe: “If those governors won’t help us beat the pandemic,” he said last week, “I will use my power as president to get them out of the way.”
The refusal of otherwise healthy people to vaccinate is, in fact, a trampling of common sense, decency and the very idea that any of us owes a measure of respect to those around us.
Vaccine Nation 0
David dissects the duplicity, which does, indeed, defy description. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)