2020 archive
Cavalcade of COVID 0
Der Spiegel assigned a team of reporters to chronicle the United States’s response it COVID-19. Waht that found was not pretty. Here’s a bit from the intro:
I commend the article to your attention.
It’s a painful read, but a necessary one.
Nattering Nabob of Nonsense 0
Norm Shpancer, writing as Psychology Today Blogs, remarks on Donald Trump’s rambling, incoherent, and often self-contradictory remarks and tries to figure out why the Trumpettes not only overlook, but defend them. Here’s an exerpt:
That reaction, rather than the bumbling itself, manifests a core corruption of Trump and his cultists—the rabid insistence that gibberish is poetry, that covfefe is a real word, albeit secret; that, in other words, the leader’s obvious faults do not in fact exist.
Politics aside, to the honest outside observer that reaction seems both unnecessary and ineffective. And it begs for explanation. So, what is it that compels Trump and his enablers to deny the clear evidence of our ears? To treat utter nonsense with fawning reverence?
Reading Rainbow 0
Covidiots meet the Constitution, and discover that maybe they should have read it first.
That Other Epidemic 0
At NJ.com, Kevin Manahan traces the latest outbreak of the Dumbbell Disease, caused by the stupid virus, which is again (it’s happened before–think of the Know Nothings, for example) going viral in the United States. A nugget:
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.
Misdirection Play, Covidiot Dept. 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Robert Field explains that the persons protesting for states to “reopen” are misdirected to the wrong culprit. An excerpt (emphasis added):
Individual states are not and were never equipped to defend the nation from a global threat. That’s why the framers of the Constitution created the federal government. Asking the states to lead the fight against COVID-19 is like asking them to defend the country from a military threat. Imagine FDR announcing after Pearl Harbor that each state was on its own to fend off the armies of Germany and Japan.
A Picture Is Worth . . . 0
. . . all the words that fail me.
Aside:
You’ve heard of “malice aforethought.”
Welcome to the governance of “malice without thought.”
Furrfu.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Covert Covidiocy, Reprise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Joe Pierre cuts the astroturf. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Gene Lyons tells of watching truth collide with fiction in a world where facts are what people think.