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Who was that Masked Man?

Wrong Brother. Oh ain’t it lonely When you’re livin’ with a gun Well you can’t slow down and you can’t turn ’round And you can’t trust anyone You just sit there like a butterfly And you’re all encased in glass You’re so fragile you just may break And you don’t know who to ask Oh …

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I’d pretty much rank your priority survival needs in this order- Knife You just need one. They are hard to make out of nothing and if you have one you can perhaps (not as easy as it looks on TV) improvise everything else. Fire Are you stupid? You’re going to drink Raw Water?! You selfish …

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Not The Only Stupid Argument In The Supreme Court Today

There was also this one- Religious Freedom Demands That Women Be Denied Birth Control, Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court by Jordan Smith, The Intercept May 12 2020 During oral arguments on May 6, before a U.S. Supreme Court working remotely amid the coronavirus crisis, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had one question on her mind: What …

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How Deep Is The Rot?

Arguments today in Supreme Court about whether Congress gets Executive Branch information or not. Bad if decided the wrong way but it would undo 200+ years of Black Letter Law. These particular cases have uniformly resulted in practically unanimous findings in favor of Congress at both the District and Appeals level. I would hope Roberts …

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Evidently, he’s a real Doctor, Lab Coat, Stethescope, and everything. How does it feel to live in a World of Morons? Some times it’s about politics. Eh, pretty ok I guess. What did you expect? I don’t know, maybe Cracked is starting up again. Cody Johnston got his start there.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Dir. Dr. Robert Redfield Testify before the Senate HELP Committee

A stream. CBS is not the source I would have chosen given that they maligned MSF by eliding their deployment during Sandy, but they do start earlier than most- 9:30 am.

Shorthand And Ignorance

Matt Phillips at The Times makes a very important point. Repeat After Me: The Markets Are Not the Economy By Matt Phillips, The New York Times May 10, 2020 The stock market looks increasingly divorced from economic reality. The United States is on the brink of the worst economic collapse since the Hoover administration. Corporate …

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Still Waiting On My Oximeter

It’s like Nuking from Orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. If your Blood Oxygen is below 70% you’re probably pretty sick for whatever reason. I had undiagnosed Anemia for years and years (told you I was the Whitest Guy you know), it’s something I should be tracking anyway if only to establish a …

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You know, things were not all Skittles and Beer before Coronavirus either. Ok, Skittles. A lot of people think Wallingford is Stars Hollow. It’s not.

Exceptional? You Betcha!

It’s not always a good thing. Robert Reich explains- Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death by Robert Reich, The Guardian Sun 10 May 2020 No other nation has endured as much death from Covid-19 nor nearly as a high a death rate as has the United States. With 4.25% of the world …

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