July, 2020 archive
Mask Misinformers 0
David Kyle Johnson debunks several articles purporting to prove that wearing masks will not help stem the spread of sickness in these viral times. A snippet:
But the more important question is “why?” If I published a paper that cited even one study that didn’t say what I said it did, I’d be paying for it academically for years. If I did it 42 times in one paper, I’d be drummed out of my profession. So why does she think she can get away with this?
Follow the link for his answer to that question.
Decoding De Code 0
E. J. Montini interprets the intimations.
Context 0
John Archibald unmasks a list of no-nos.
(Lack-)Wits Gathering Wool(ery) (Updated) 0
We are a society of stupid, and the stupid, it burns. It burns all of us.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Afterthought:
I was in a shop recently and said to the clerk, after a bit of banter, “I never thought I’d live to see the end of the American dream.”
But I have, and America did it to itself.
I am not sanguine.
Addendum:
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood:
Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn’t have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn’t want to go there.
Greenwood, Kerry, Raisins and Almonds (Scottsdale, AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 2007). p. 161.
Unmasking the Maskless 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bree McEwan explores why some Americans are so dead (ahem!) set against wearing masks, despite that doing so is easy and painless, in these viral times.
Her article defies excerpt or summary and is worth the four minutes it will take you to read it.
Button, Button, Who’s Pushing the Buttons? 0
David warns those who would be rid of the Trumpler not to let Trump and the Trumpettes push their buttons.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
We are reminded once again that politeness is child’s play.
QOTD 0
Hugh Marlowe, in the voice of Ellery Queen:
(Warning: The link opens the radio episode entitled “The Three Frogs” at mysteryshows.com.)
Facebook Frolics, Jerks and Knees Dept. 0
In a thoughtful and well-reasoned editorial, my local rag unloaded on a local frolicker, one who is on a school board and has a political presence and who habitually spreads tommyrot and bilge.
Here’s a telling snippet from their editorial (emphasis added):
I commend the entire piece to your attention.