Too Venal for Words category archive
Vaccine Nation 0
When I was a young ‘un, I had both types of measles (and chicken pox). The rubella wasn’t so bad, but the rubeola–oh, never mind.
Plus, one of the memories etched in my brain from when I was about three–when you don’t really have memories, they’re more like snapshots–is of my parents in bed with the mumps, an illness much more serious in adults than in children. It was the sickest I ever saw them.
I would not will those days to come back, but I seem to have become an unwilling member of a society of stupid in which facts and science and knowledge no longer matter.
We are a failing state.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and see (has-been) celebrities reveal their inner selves.
Psychopaths on the War Paths 0
Does this remind you of anyone in the news?
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and meet a maskless marauder.
Twits on Twitter 0
A twit who asks, “Did I get a mention? Did I? Did I? Huh? Huh?
Aside:
Yep, Twitter (and “social” media in general) sure has elevated dis coarse discourse.
Also, pigs, wings.
Vaccine Nation, Collateral Damage Dept. 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Dr. Richard Bold, physician-in-chief at UC-Davis, explains how cancer surgeries are being delayed, sometimes with dire results for the cancer patients, because of patients’ being exposed to COVID-19. He points his finger directly at the culprits:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Facebook Frolics 0
Insurrection frolics come back to haunt a Facebook frolicker.
Maskless Marauders 0
Just stupid and bullheaded for the sake of stupid and bullheadedness.
But that should come as no surprise.
A Picture Is Worth, Facebook Frolics Dept. 0
Don’t believe me? See for yourself.