2020 archive
Survey Coarse 0
At The Roanoke Times, Dan Casey writes of a recent “survey”* from the Republican Party that he received in the mail.
Just follow the link.
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*That is, a fund raising request in sheep’s clothing.
“Lethal Incompetence” 0
Experiments fail, even noble ones.
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood, in the voice of Dr. MacMillan:
‘Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about. Beware of the living.
(Kerry Greenwood makes words dance.)
Greenwood, Kerry, Cocaine Blues in Introducing the Honourable Phryne Fisher,
a trilogy (Scottsdale, AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 2011), p. 47
“Nobody Could Have Predicted . . . .” 0
Yet many persons did.
In my local rag, Steven T. Corneliussen rounds up a list of warnings of the possibility of and need to be prepared for a global pandemic reaching back almost three decades.
Numbers Gaming 0
Sam and his guest do the math and discover (surprise!) that the Trump administration is fudging the statistics on the effects of COVID-19.
Fed Up 0
Long-time Alabama Republican John Meredith (who happens to be not white) has had enough. Here’s a bit from his article at AL.com:
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
This passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
An invasive forest of Nathan Bedford Saplings runs amok.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Well, this should work out well (about as well as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, that is).
Two Misdirection Plays for the Price of One, Going Viral Dept. 0
Trudy Rubin skewers Donald Trump’s attempt to pass all the bucks to China.
Will Bunch lampoons Trump’s attempt to himself into a reality-TV parody of a “wartime president.”
Read ’em both.