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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May 12 2020
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 …
May 12 2020
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.
May 11 2020
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 …
May 11 2020
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 …
May 10 2020
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 …
May 10 2020
No Sports?
Yes, Bowling is a sport. My Mother, Emily, actually used it to fulfill her Athletics mandatory electives. I don’t think she was very good and whatever talent she had I don’t. I’m utterly hopeless and was even before my Arthritis. My Grandfather and my Great Grandfather both rolled a few 300s and the scoresheets were …
May 09 2020
Pre-Historic Britain
Sometimes I like to feature Documentaries that have less than obvious connections to current History and Politics. In some ways we know a great deal, pretty Professional Amateur Archeology has become one of those “eccentric” hobbies the English have embraced (like Bird Watching) and on weekends people wandering around with metal detectors is a fairly …
May 08 2020
Oh, you mean Stephen Miller’s Wife
Not just Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio’s Valet anymore. A top aide to Vice President Pence tests positive for coronavirus By Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post May 8, 2020 A top aide to Vice President Pence has tested positive for the coronavirus, making her the second known person working at the White House to contract the illness …
May 08 2020
Not So Bad
At the peak of the Great Depression in August 1932 Unemployment was 25.5%. Not as bad as that. At the peak of the Great Recession in October of 2009 Unemployment was 10%. Worse than that. U.S. unemployment rate soars to 14.7 percent, the worst since the Depression era By Heather Long and Andrew Van Dam, …
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