Maggie's Farm

He tries again to get canceled.  A good one.

Good fun.  He is right that Obama and Biden behaved like traitors to the country, but few will say so. And he is right: the media is designed to make people upset.

VDH: 2020 Election Will Be a Contest of the Angry

I am not angry. Anger is unhealthy for body and soul.

At Quillette, The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution

"Revolution"? I don't think so. Just a bunch of young white kids with nothing to do. Breaking things is much easier than making things.

Video: Are you ready America?

A darn good piece. And what's the deal about Teddy Roosevelt?

Good effort, Scott. Yesterday's podcast.

"Americans have the constitutional right to instant gratification"

- Somebody, somewhere 

Via Gateway:

 When it comes to the COVID-19 event, we have been experiencing a serious case of tunnel vision. As we focus on the day to day increase of COVID-19 things could look pretty grim, but as we take a step back and look at the comparative total mortality here in the US, things aren’t much worse than a bad seasonal flu, like that last seen in 2017-18. If you take the New York City region out of the mix, the rest of the country is cumulatively well within the expected mortality.

Where I live, people are getting away from town to breathe free, have fun, and to avoid rioters and protesters. 

New York State is still officially on "lockdown" but it's pretty much ignored now by the general public.

Related, from Paris 

What are our readers doing this weekend? 

I thought COVID was old news. Anyway, this is strange: Couples "Should Wear Masks During Sex" In COVID World, 'Experts' Advise

NY Times Op-Ed: White People Should Stop Talking To Relatives Until They Support BLM.

With money? I do not even know what BLM wants besides my money. Everybody wants my money.

If you're not Black but want to support BLM, having fraught conversations with your kinda (or definitely) racist loved ones will likely not be fun, but it’s a very worthy undertaking.

Written by a young white lady, of course. She probably never tried to run even a candy shop.

If I had my own shop, I would confront looters with firearms. My "shop", so to speak, is in an office suite up in a building in Manhattan, and the corona mess has damaged our business enough already.

Being constructive is so hard, but being destructive is a no-brainer. 

Who would replace the "thin blue line"? 

Some people seem to have gone completely insane. I blame the virus. 

Powerline:

New York City, the home of finance capitalism, has a Communist mayor! He was the ultimate luxury good for the so-called “progressive” virtue-signaling rich. But now that things are serious the costs of Mayor de Blasio’s luxury leftism are obvious. Between the excessive and incompetent coronavirus shutdown and now the riots, New York City has been set back 40 years. Even Gov. Andrew Cuomo can see it...

Riots are not good persuasion and will not get you a job. Scott lost three promotions in his business career because he was a white male but he'd love to be helpful if somebody told him how.  (brilliant podcast) "Not a f-ing corporation in America is looking to hire a white person."

Or stay out of trouble and learn a trade. He tells it like it is. 

I agree that doing things for other people is a foundational life strategy. Never expect gratitude, though. People resent helpfulness because it makes them feel helpless. It is complicated.  

Shapiro via Hot Air:

Trump: If the mayor of NYC doesn't do his job, I'll intervene.
Media: BOOOO! FASCIST!!!

Cuomo, 12 hours later: If the mayor of NYC doesn't do his job, I'll intervene.
Media: YAAAAY! HERO!!!

Related:  De Blasio 'has lost control': House Democrat calls for deploying National Guard after 'mayhem' in New York City

Related:  The Suicide of the Cities

About riots and NASA

The sound isn't bad for pop music. Bluetooth and all that. 

MyBoom Studio 

 By the way, Bob turned 79 today.

In the rush to care for patients with COVID-19, are we forgetting the millions of victims of government shutdowns?

Some random estimates are that up to 1/3 of American small businesses will go bankrupt or completely out of business. Sounds as extreme as 2.2 million deaths, but we'll see. That's the heartbeat of America. Not to mention suicides and substance abuse with broken hopes and dreams. 

"They" offered 2 weeks of shutdown - almost national - to "flatten the curve." People went along with that, although it really was appropriate mainly to NYC and the NY metro area. Whether that worked or not we'll never know, but viruses pass through and curve down anyway. It is their natural course so no policy can take much credit for that.

What ensued is that the goalposts moved, and keep moving. We can pray for the dead and their families, but let's remember the lives destroyed by COVID hysteria. In the end, if there is an end, that could be more people and more despair.

Somebody needs to write the book. If I had the time, the ability to write snappy prose, and the research energy that I had in college, I would do it. Right now, I am trying to keep our business on life support. I am not optimistic. 

Pennsylvania Gov: We'll wait for a vaccine

The CDC Just Gave Us the Biggest Reason to End the Coronavirus Lockdowns

Do we really know yet how dangerous this virus is?  No, but with new info it keeps getting less.

The President and his mask 

The purpose of masks is to not infect others. Another purpose is to simply show respect. A social signal.

Springtime in New England is squid time, especially from Narragansett Bay to Cape Cod. Calamari. Delicious if not over-cooked into squid bubble gum. Squidding is mostly a nighttime game. Lights seem to attract squid.

The youtube below is recreational squidding.  For commercial squidding, here.