2020 archive
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood, in the voice of Phryne Fisher:
Never press your luck unless you have to.
Greewood, Kerry, Dead Man’s Chest (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2010), p. 223.
The Elephant in the Room 0
This episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater is an absolute hoot.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Tony Norman marvels at the dissonance.
What was that war in the heart of Europe all about if the enemy they fought and defeated has somehow captured the hearts and minds of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren nearly eight decades later?
Donald Trump Gets His Wall 0
Aside:
This assumes that there are some Republicans who see and are willing to speak truth about Trump. Methinks most of them (there are few notable exceptions, such as the Governor of Maryland), have bought into him, hook, line, and stinker.
All the News that Fits 0
Thom and his guest discuss right-wing media and messaging machine and take a stab at taxonomy of right-wing I guess you could call them flavors.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Jonathan N. Stea remind us that
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Geeking Out 0
Magiea v. 7 with the Fluxbox window manager using the Operation style.
I do likes me my pretty pictures.
Just the Vaxx, Ma’am 0
Michael Ungar, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, strives to understand the mentality of anti-vaxxers. He suggests three factors to account for their denial of scientific and medical evidence. Some excerpts; follow the link for a detailed exploration of each.
- First, let’s deal with trust in science. . . . . when it comes to vaccinations, there are those who think they know more than the microbiologists who have spent lifetimes studying the minutiae of viral and bacterial infections. I can only attribute this mistrust to arrogance . . . .
- Second, anti-vaxxers have broken the social contract. Our individual resilience is always dependent on the resilience of the support systems we depend on.
- Third, anti-vaxxers are manipulating others to make themselves feel omnipotent.
Methinks he left out a fourth factor.
We are a society of stupid.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It’s also poor public health policy.
Witness what’s happening in the Dakotas, where the populace and the governments at state and local levels have repeatedly turned blind eyes to the pandemic:
“I think the hardest thing to watch is that people are still looking for something else and a magic answer and they do not want to believe covid is real,” Doering told CNN in an interview Monday.
“Their last dying words are ‘this can’t be happening, it’s not real,'” Doering said, adding that some patients prefer to believe that they have pneumonia or other diseases rather than covid-19, despite seeing their positive test results.
More disquieting tales of denial at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Expose children to politeness at an early age.
When they arrived at the scene, they say they found a 4-year-old suffering from an accidental and self-inflicted single gunshot wound.
Both Sides Don’t 0
While on the topic, I commend this article, in which Wallace B. Mendelson explores what it’s like to view the world through Trump-colored glasses, to your attention.