2020 archive
Don’t Look! 0
This is a classic example of treating the symptom, not the cause.
Words fail me.
A Glimmer of Sunshine 0
Bob Molinaro. sportswriter extraordinaire, looks on the bright side:
Masked Marauding 0
Farhad Manjoo investigates why an item so simple as a medical face mask is suddenly unobtainable, and the answer is all about the next quarterly report. It’s what Harry Shearer’s guest on Le Show, Matt Stoller, referred to as the “financialization” of business.
Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
I am sorry to say that digging into the mask shortage does little to assuage one’s sense of outrage. The answer to why we’re running out of protective gear involves a very American set of capitalist pathologies — the rise and inevitable lure of low-cost overseas manufacturing, and a strategic failure, at the national level and in the health care industry, to consider seriously the cascading vulnerabilities that flowed from the incentives to reduce costs.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Ensure that your children have the opportunity to be polite to each other.
Republican Family Values, “Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother” Dept. 0
Aside:
A small quibble: Trump did not make the remark about grandparents sacrificing themselves, but he might as well have.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Maintain your social distance, politely.
(snip)
The women, who were not hurt during the incident, told police that they were “wearing medical masks and gloves when they entered the post office” in Alpharetta, a city 25 miles north of Atlanta. Upon walking into the post office, they were immediately met by the gun-toting Taratoot, police say.
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.
The Robber Barons Are Casing the Joint 0
At the Inky, Maria Panaritis explains.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Farron catalogs Donald Trump’s lies about coronavirus.
Geeking Out 0
Slackware –Current with the XFCE desktop running in a VirtualBox virtual machine on Mageia v. 7 with the Plasma desktop, xclock, and GKrellm.
