Health and Sanity category archive
Too Much Tech 0
Kathryn Haydon suggests that too much tech–more specificallys, too much internet and “social” media–is hazardous to our mental processes. Here’s a bit of how she describes the problem:
With alerts and apps and email and social media and calls and texts, we are subject to this type of mental whiplash day in and day out. A steady diet of lower-level thinking is hazardous to our thinking . . . .
Follow the link for her thoughts on how to keep “smart” stuff from dumbing us down.
Maskless Marauders 0
It’s been a while since I last read the Declaration of Independence, but, to the best of my recollection, nowhere in it did the Founders argue that persons have an inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the perpetuation of a pestilence.”
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and meet a maskless marauder.
Vaccine Nation, Prima Donna Dept. 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
We are a society of selfish.
Maskless Marauders 0
Some persons just aren’t happy unless they can disdain the common good and ignore the social contract.
Aside:
Frankly, I doubt that they understand the concept of the common good and are ignorant of that of the social contract.
To put it another way, they are–er–self-regarding porcines.
The Medicine Show, Horse–er–Paste Dept. 0
The Majority Report crew discusses a Brazilian study that shows that Ivermectin is wholly ineffective as a treatment for COVID, despite the pipe dreams of wingnut whack jobs.
The Clock Is TikToking 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
The Medicine Show 0
Quack! Quack! Quack!
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and see the America close up.
Suffer the Children 0
Methinks one can make a convincing argument that the new motto of Florida Republicans is “Do mo’ harm.”