The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jamie Aten discusses whether these viral times have affected the propagation of misinformation (and, I would add, outright lies) on “social” media. His conclusion might surprise you.
Animal Sacrifice 0
Thom and his guest discuss how the slaughter of farm animals is not simply the result of the coronavirus. Rather, they posit that the pandemic has revealed deep flaws in the existing system for getting meat to market.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Scatter ye politeness where ye may,
E’en on the public’s right-of-way.
Those shells today inert lying,
Tomorrow they shalt be flying.
QOTD 0
William Makepeace Thackery:
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
The Medicine Show 0
Will Bunch argues that it is all show and no medicine.
Standing Out from the Herd 0
Sweden’s experiment in “herd immunity” against COVID-19 has not worked out well.
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood, in the voice of Phryne Fisher:
If you are not scared, there is no merit in being brave.
Greenwood, Kerry, Death at Victoria Dock (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007), p. 149.
Etymology of “Jazz” 0
Thanks to the Kerry Greenwood mystery, The Green Mill Murder, I learned tonight that the word “jazz” has a much more interesting history than I would have ever expected.
Deficit Pending 0
As state and municipal revenues have cratered in these viral times, Republicans are balking at any federal effort to ameliorate suffering and penury for states, municipalities, and persons.
At the Portland Press-Herald, Greg Kesich points out that there are other deficits on which the party of Scrooges turns its back. Here are a couple of his examples; follow the link for more.
There is a long-term debt that comes with every lost opportunity for a child to learn, and every person who can’t afford to see a doctor. But we have been trained to think that cutting school funding and health care programs – the inevitable result of a “smaller government” – is sound fiscal management instead of calling it what it really is: recklessly borrowing from the future to get us out of our present crisis.