Too Venal for Words category archive
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Well, this should work out well (about as well as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, that is).
Inventory 0
Connie Schultz tries to wrap her mind around the damage done to the polity in just three years of Donald Trump.
Covidiocy 0
AL.com’s Francis Coleman has had enough of fools and their foolishness.
The Liar of the Land, Reprise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Christian Hart runs the numbers.
I’m not going to try to excerpt or summarize his piece. It needs to be read in its entirety.
“But There’s No Other Explanation” 0
Snopes has round-up from the Associated Press of right-wing conspiracy theories that are going coronaviral.
We are a society of stupid.
Cruising on Cruz Can Troll 0
Warning: Mild language.
Grifters of God 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell comments on the who-shot-john in Florida over whether or not churches should be subject to shut-down orders in these viral times. He starts out with the story of the mega-church pastor who got arrested for ignoring a shut-down order.
That wasn’t even the nuttiest part of the story.
No, that honor went to the pastor’s rationale for why he claimed his congregants they were safe — because he spent $100,000 on some sort of magical electronic system to “neutralize” the virus.
“We have brought in 13 machines that basically kill every virus in the place,” the pastor said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “If someone walks through the door, it kills everything on them. If they sneeze, it shoots it down at a 100 mph. It’ll neutralize it in split-seconds.”
I know the Lord blessed us with brains. It’s a shame some of his followers opt not to use them.
Follow the link for the rest.
Nattering Nabobs of Narcissism 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Kristy Lee Hochenberger writes of the danger posed by narcissists who believe that they are entitled to ignore the advice of experts in these viral times. A snippet; follow the link to see whether her depiction of narcissism and narcissists reminds you of anyone in the news.
Mask Marauder 0
I can’t help but feel that this is a harbinger of coming events.
In more news of our descent into Lord of the Flies, “zoombombing” . . . .
The Electronic Medicine Show 0
FBI arrests coronavirus snake oil salesman for wire fraud.
Natch, he was hawking his phony cures via videos on “social” media.