April, 2020 archive
“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.
Geeking Out 0
The Fluxbox window manager on Ubuntu MATE with GKrellM, xclock, and the QMMP media player playing The Bishop’s Secret by Fergus Hume. Thunderbird and Firefox are shaded in a tabbed window (and, no, you can’t do that on Windows).
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
As I mentioned yesterday, they are “responsible gun owners” until all at once they are not.
Stray Thought 0
It is quite clear that the very very rich, ensconced in their multiple houses, ginormous yachts, and do-nothing sinecures, have no clue about what life is like for the rest of us.
Supply and Command 0
Badtux explores the shortage of medical personal protective equipment (PPE), explaining that it’s a result of an unprecedented and unplanned for spike in demand resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. He argues convincingly that the responsibility lies in only one place: the office of the man who was repeatedly warned that the pandemic was coming and did nothing. A snippet (emphasis added):
These Modern Times 0
Nostalgic Afterthought:
When I was a young ‘un, it was always a big day when the Sears and Montgomery-Ward Christmas catalogs arrived in the mail.
They kept us out of our mother’s hair for hours.
“Define Your Terms” 0
Atrios defines “reopen the economy.”
