March, 2022 archive

Josh Gohlke is somewhat taken aback at Americans’ susceptibility to the false claims of the right-wing medicine show. Here’s a bit of his article; follow the link for more evidence of stupid.

Meanwhile, the most extensive trial of the drug’s (Ivermectin–ed.) potential to treat COVID to date, recently detailed by the Wall Street Journal, found invermectin did not help rid patients of the coronavirus, resolve their symptoms, reduce hospitalization or prevent death. One expert said the study “should really help put to rest” the ivermectin craze. Good luck with that.

The disinformation-industrial complex is so devoted to this chimera that it’s accused Paxlovid, the drug that works, of being a repackaged version of the dewormer, coining the term “Pfizermectin.

The Window at the White Cat, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. It is a good mystery well written and well read.

The persons who read for Librivox.org are volunteers, and some of them do better than others. The person who recorded this is one of the best I’ve encountered.

Badtux sees into the future, when all have been assimilated by the Zuckerborg.

Afterthought:

In the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, I read a lot of science fiction; I particularly favored Asimov and Heinlein (Heinlein was rather a jerk, but he was a good writer). I drifted away from science fiction when it became dystopian realistic. I think the last contemporary science fiction book I read was Beyond the Blue Event Horizon.

I remember reading a story, written in the 1950s or 1960s, in which the writer envisioned a world like that described by Badtux, in which persons remained in their rooms glued to their television sets (it was long before personal computers were a thing, or even an idea).

But I can’t for the life of me remember who wrote it.

Isaac Bailey has had it with the Graham cracker.