Sunday, March 8. 2020
Have you noticed people avoiding public spaces this week? I have noticed fewer people on the subways (Which is great. Probably Ubering, or, God forbid, "working from home".)
Word is that the theater/movie biz is having a drop in attendance. Restaurants and pubs as busy as ever. People vary in their vulnerability to fearfulness. I refuse to be among the fearful. It's just not my way.
My church this morning was packed, as always. No more sipping the wine from the same cup, though. I never liked that idea anyway.
My gym is as busy as usual. They claim they do a special cleaning every three days. Whatever.
What about travel plans? Cruise lines are dead for a while, and northern Italy is shut down. I feel bad for their businesses. It's a Black Swan event. If you plan for Black Swans, you go nuts.
Saturday, March 7. 2020
New study shows sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization
That's what happens during interglaciations. The reverse happens during glaciations. People once lived where the English Channel is now.
Note to readers: The CDC has certified that Maggie's Farm has installed effective protections against sending COVID-19 through the internet. It's a very high-tech filter made of baling wire, duct tape, and organic, non-GMO fresh, damp cow manure which is stuffed into our internet access portal (we use a PVC pipe). We do it to keep you safe here.
'Rosie the Riveter' dies at 95: New York woman who first inspired the iconic character while working on a fighter plane assembly line during WWII passes away
Girl Scouts are tough salespeople
She inherited millions, and nobody knows
Smart girl
Quillette: A Closer Look at ‘White Fragility’ Theory
Historian: I Warned The 1619 Project’s Author She Was Wrong About The Revolutionary War
LI: Look for the Union Label Week in Higher Education
California's Government Has Turned Homelessness Into Big Business
Blockbuster Jobs Report: Feb Payrolls Soar By 273,000, Smashing Expectations, As Unemployment Rate Drops... But Does Anyone Care?
Anyone Notice That Trump’s Economy Keeps Beating Expectations?
MSM will not mention
Schumer’s SCOTUS threat was truly unprecedented, then he made it worse
Maddow Tells Warren Her Exit From Race Was ‘Death Knell’ For ‘Woman President In Our Lifetimes’
I doubt it, but is that really so important? Dem women preferred Biden.
Are you suffering from Elizabeth Warren Denial Syndrome? Symptoms include seeing sexism everywhere and forgetting Tulsi is still in the race
Biden Keeps Forgetting Obama’s Name While Campaigning
MSM will not discuss
'It's pandemonium': virus panic-buying hits Los Angeles
The Age of Mass Hysteria
All of Italy’s Regions Infected with Coronavirus
Insty's Corona update
Friday, March 6. 2020
U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
Is that at least part of why women here tend to vote for parental governments? For security, or a fantasy of security? Is that a female thing? If so, it doesn't seem very feminist to me.
Let's face it: Most of us have fairly humdrum, routine, comfortable lives aside from work annoyances, bill-paying, and kids' various problems.
But humans are wired for excitement, threat responses, etc. Survival instincts. Most of us crave some degree of excitment, and will even pay money for it because life is so relatively easy. Some more than others, of course. Roller coasters, climbing Mt. Everest, etc.
There's probably a Bell curve spectrum of various responses to real, perceived, or imagined threat. Some cower and hide, some rise up and resist, even irrationally, and everything in between. I like to think I am in the calm, rational, middle but I will kill you if you threaten me or my home. No regrets if that were to occur.
I love blizzards. Tornadoes? No.
Viking skeleton’s DNA test proves she was a woman warrior
Felony Arrest of 10-Year-Old for Playing With Toy Gun
University of Texas orders faculty to undergo training on law that criminalizes sex jokes
California’s ethnic studies proposal is incomplete and offensive
Less than 2 percent of Harvard faculty are conservative, survey finds
The Nigerian prince scam is still fooling people. Here’s why. A classic grift has evolved over time.
Williams College suspended male student for not dating girl after kissing her: lawsuit
I Went to a Socialism Conference Last Year. Consider Me Scared.
328 Chinese Nationals Caught Trying To Illegally Enter U.S. At Southern Border
We’re Accumulating More Critical Information About The Coronavirus Every Day
Schumer to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh: Nice Little Court Ya Got There, Hate to See Anything Happen to It …
Warren Blames ‘Sexism’ For Her Failed Campaign…
MSNBC’s Brian Williams reads a tweet: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million"
MSNBC’s Brian Williams, NY Times editor marvel at tweet that got Bloomberg math really wrong
With Biden ascendant, it's useful to remember just how awful he is
North Korea’s Ballistic Bluster May Mask Major Epidemic
Thursday, March 5. 2020
Paranoids love to have a teensy bit of fact to appear to justify their habitual fearfulness, and preppers love having a reason to justify their prepping. I feel those people just find it exciting, but most people I talk to just joke about the hysteria.
The Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus Differently. Concierge doctors, yachts, chartered planes and germ-free hideaways.
What a crazy world! If you ask me, a 6-month supply of peanut butter and jelly, and a bag of flour, ought to take care of it. Maybe 50 bags of chips, and how many cases of beer? Store Shelves Across The Country Are Emptying Fast
Really?
When Should You Let Your Kids Start Lifting?
10,000 steps: Not quite magical when it comes to weight
Of course not. Still, better to move around a lot than to sit
Female Guardian Writer: My Lack of Attraction to My Dress-Wearing Boyfriend Made Me Doubt My Liberation from the Patriarchy's Mind Control
Court Considers Whether Men-Only Draft Is Constitutional
The University of California-Santa Cruz has fired 54 graduate workers after they refused to turn in fall semester grades in an ongoing dispute over pay.
Time to grow up, kids
NY Times Knows What The Best Treatment For Coronavirus Is
Sen. Mike Lee: It's time for Congress to bring accountability to intelligence community's surveillance poweR
I thought they did that decades ago
Former Obama-Era Cuban Prisoner Says Sanders Told Him, 'I Don't Know What's So Wrong' With Cuba
NYM on politicians:
They are doing it for the money and their livings depend on it. They are not theorists or philosophers. They are pros, and they’re not fooling around.
Schumer Threatens Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, “You Will Pay the Price! You Won’t Know What Hit You!”
Biden: “If I Win,” Beto O’Rourke, Who Wants Mandatory Gun Confiscation, Will “Change The Face” Of Gun Control
Trump's Super Tuesday results: Broad appeal beyond a united GOP
Israel picks its 2020 Eurovision entry, sung in four languages (with the music vid)
UN agency: Iran nearly triples stockpile of enriched uranium. The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says Iran has nearly tripled its stockpile of enriched uranium since November in violation of its deal with world powers
Duh. They are permitted to lie to kaffirs
Tuesday, March 3. 2020
NYC is experiencing a virus panic. It must be in anticipation of a Wuhan-style 14-day lockdown. Supermarkets are running out of things like toilet paper, beer, coffee, etc. and there are empty shelves where the tomato sauces and spaghetti were. My Trader Joe's looks a little like Venezuela.
But why the run on water? People are buying all of the bottled water. Why? I can understand stocking up on beer and wine, but water?
Americans stockpiling
Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New Sussex study sheds light
The end of the Chevy Impala
Dogfight over endangered species looms over efforts to delist gray wolf
Will canceling unused credit cards hurt my credit score?
What the NYT’s 1619 Project aims to teach your kids
The Power of Liberal Peer Condemnation on Conservatives
Will Sen. Chris Murphy infect the entire US Senate with COVID-19?
Iraqi TV: Coronavirus Is An American, Jewish Plot To Reduce World Population
The Coronavirus Is Dramatic Enough As Is, Thank You
How News Coverage Changed For The Worse
Gregg Jarrett: Hillary Clinton will feign amnesia if forced to testify about her secret email server
What An Ally! Turkey’s Erdogan Sets Refugee Flood On NATO
Monday, March 2. 2020
3 ethnic jokes
US Flu Cases Climb to 15 Million With 54 Pediatric Deaths Recorded in 2019-20 Season
Hidden news about the epidemic sweeping across America!
Some students say colleges not doing enough to combat coronavirus-fueled racism. "In classes, people won't want to sit next to them. If they're coughing, everyone stares at them," a student said of his peers of Asian descent.
Coronavirus Context: You’ll Be Fine, Probably
One of my NYC daughters reports people walking around with masks. Sheesh.
If you think Democrats and the media are politicizing coronavirus, you’re right
I ain't askeered
Deer dies of cancer with odd stomach contents, prompting warning from Colorado Parks & Wildlife
NYC: Would anybody be putting billion dollar plus buildings in these locations if they thought there was anything to this sea level rise hype?
UCLA BANS all single-use plastics
Rush's medical update
Left purging Comrade Matthews
Republican Mega-donor Buys Stake In Twitter, Seeks To Oust Jack Dorsey – Report
Is Bernie Sanders the American Version of Jeremy Corbyn?
Tucker: Are we sure America won't elect a socialist? (youtube)
Political Correctness In Britain? This Orwellian Madness Has Reached New Levels Of Absurdity
U.S. Signs Peace Deal With Taliban After Nearly 2 Decades Of War In Afghanistan
Quagmire
Saturday, February 29. 2020
Friday, February 28. 2020
Scott's podcast today, with Scott stoned. He's a better talker stoned than 99.9% of people cold sober.
Virus panic is making a lot of adults act insane. The stock market, though, makes sense in its own crazy way because of supply chains, etc., and it always overreacts anyway. Good buying opportunity, as I see it.
With all the news hype, I wonder what our readers think about this phenomenon whether the news hype aspect, the medical aspect, or the panic.
Real Headline from The Crazy Years: "Doctors suspended for removing transgender man's vagina without consent"
New Jersey Public Schools To Teach LGBT Ideology In Every Subject
Criminalizing Dissent at UMass Amherst. 21-year-old Louis Shenker just wanted his MAGA hat back
Evil
College accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ after ‘mostly white’ choir sings black spirituals
Idaho students demand Starbucks offer 'free' vegan milk that 'doesn't support animal abuse'
It's not milk, dummies. It's just white gunk.
Related, Across the country, rural communities want to secede from their states. Here's why. Americans outside of urban centers feel as though they have no voice. They want to reclaim their agency.
In global terms the coronavirus epidemic has reduced trust in One World institutions even further than they have fallen already. The bat from Wuhan that trashed the tourism trade, sank the cruise ship industry, cancelled myriad events, crippled global supply chains and upended politics is the single most dramatic example of the Butterfly Effect in history.
Thursday, February 27. 2020
Wednesday, February 26. 2020
 Photo: Winter Croci in New England
So it turns out tofu and all these other vegan foods are ruining the planet
The Perverse Panic over Plastic - The campaign against disposable bags and other products is harming the planet and the public
Why coronavirus will only be a bump in the road for the world economy
Keeping Africa on the brink of starvation
Justice Department: 45% of Blacks at Harvard Admitted Through Illegal Race Preferences
NYT Editorial Board Member Blames TRUMP For NYC Water Main Breaking.
President Trump Has Created an Economic Boom for Blacks In America
Bernie Sanders: Fidel Castro Wasn’t So Bad…
Democrats Have Already Conceded To Bernie
VDH: Never Sanders? In 2020 if Sanders is the Democratic nominee, the NeverSanders movement will be far larger, far wealthier, far more influential—even as it is likely far quieter—than were the vociferous but anemic NeverTrumpers of 2016.
WHY DID SANDERS CLING TO FAILING COMMUNIST REGIMES DECADES LONGER THAN OTHER LEFTISTS?
Joe Biden Claims A Whopping 150 Million People Have Been Killed By Guns Since 2007
Biden in South Carolina: ‘I’m a Democratic Candidate for the United States Senate’ - “Look me over. If you like what you see, help out. If not, vote for the other Biden. Give me a look though, okay?”
The Next Coup Against Trump Has Begun. As the intelligence agencies for all intents renew Operation Crossfire, it’ll take more than Richard Grenell to ward them off.
Iran’s leadership rigs an election — and still loses
How Israel saved many American lives in Vietnam
About Palestinian textbooks
Tuesday, February 25. 2020
America Continues To Lead In Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
How Coronavirus Affects the Economy
Diversity is a bore
Colleges Give Up on Western Civilization
If You Can't Articulate A Limiting Principle On Government Expansion, You Get Bernie Sanders
CNN continues obsession about Trump’s eating habits, this time over food options in India
More Than 100K Pack Massive Stadium to Welcome POTUS for 'Namaste Trump' Rally in India
India Plays “Macho Man” by Village People Ahead of President Trump’s Rally at Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad in front of 125,000
That is funny
FBI Official: Russia Wants to See Us 'Tear Ourselves Apart'
Powerline:
Has Bernie Sanders ever lavished the kind of praise on the United States that he has heaped on the old regime of the Soviet Union, the dictators of Venezuela, or the Communist masters of Cuba? Has he ever praised the United States, period?
"I've Never Seen This Level of Doom:" Democrats In Outright "Panic Mode"
The evidence doesn't back Democrats' panic that Bernie can't win
7 Reasons the Left's Hatred of Trump Is So Deep
Canada: Laboratory for Democratic Socialism
PMW report slams Palestinian Authority for using child soldiers. Does UNICEF confront the issue?
The Fortunate Arabs in the Middle East
Americans aren't as eager to retreat from the Middle East as politicians seem to think
Really?
Monday, February 24. 2020
Fossils discovered in the Sahara reveal catfish and tilapia swam in rivers 12,000 years ago but died off from over fishing and climate changes
World-famous mine is a hidden geological marvel aglow with surreal display of fluorescence
AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria
How to thoroughly disinfect your airplane seat
It's called OCD
Coronavirus panic update
School district scraps traditional ‘A-F’ grading system for kinder, gentler model
Connecticut Students Arrested For Saying Things
UConn students' arrest over racial slur prompts review of state's ridicule ban
A Major Study That Fueled National Vape Panic Has Been Retracted
Why Can't California Get People To Take Free Money?
California Bill Would Require Occupational Licenses for Porn Actors, Strippers, Cam Girls
Bay Area dissatisfaction: Rich, poor, young and old unhappy here. Poll: More residents now want to leave than stay
Baltimore Democrats Don’t Want Larry Hogan To Rein In Gun Violence
How far Left are journalists?
“Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Austerity Has Got To Go” — Oberlin College students protest union staff layoffs
How the 'Interpreter' Scam Brought 75,000 Iraqis and Afghans to America
National security official discredits NYT report on Russia helping Trump in 2020
Let’s try listening to Bernie Sanders’ voters — they have legitimate gripes
Really? Life is hard?
Bernie Sanders: Illegal Immigrants Are “Entitled” To The Same Government Benefits As Citizens
Bloomberg needs to go medieval on Bernie if he wants any chance of beating Trump
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
Just ordinary astroturf
Bloomberg’s China Apologetics Should Disqualify Him
About Trump hatred
It is visceral
Europe's New Academic Fascism
Lessons From Palestinian Rule Over Bethlehem
Saturday, February 22. 2020
Friday, February 21. 2020
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Americans Are Avoiding Corona Beer Amid Coronavirus Outbreak,
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