Yes, there’s a plague. And for some of us, today really sucks. Doctors and nurses are getting burned out — and worse, sick — and things are still just ramping up. The numbers look bad and tomorrow they’ll look worse and a week from now we’re going to look back on today and wish it was still only as bad as this.
It’s tempting to focus on this (more…)
We’re getting used to world leaders making decisions that appear Quixotic, even a bit insane. In the face of a world that’s shutting down due to a virus, North Korea is running missile tests every couple of days, rogue Iraqi militias keep firing missiles at American bases, Russia’s doing a curious diplomatic maneuver with Venezuela… and Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has decided that his countrymen are tough enough to survive COVID-19 without any protection.
Over the past few weeks, Bolsonaro has downplayed fears of a global pandemic, (more…)
OK; to be fair, we deserved this:
“The remarks of US politicians have completely exposed their hypocrisy of adopting double standards on human rights issues and using them to maintain hegemony.”
We’re constantly interfering in China’s domestic policy — the raids on Hong Kong and imprisoning protestors, slavery-level factory conditions, selling political prisoners for their organs — and we’ve got the gall to lecture them on how they run their own country. Meanwhile, even our headlines are full of our own sins. Touché, China. Touché. (more…)
A few minutes ago, they made the announcement: A deal has been worked out, and they’re finalizing the language now.
Before the news gets hold of this and screws it all up for you with either hate or adulation for the president, the Congress, or whatever their pet Cause (more…)
Every now and again, I run across something from the olden days that just has got to be shared with you. This is a poem written by Holman Day way back in 1902 or thereabouts, and in order to save you unnecessary effort — I wouldn’t care to strain your eyes — I’ve done the reading for you. (more…)
…probably. Yes, one or two of you do, but if so you’re in the hospital right now because you can’t breathe, and so you’re probably not reading this.
Bear in mind: I’m writing this with a persistent sore throat, bad lungs, and a massive case of paranoia. It might just be the damned cherry blossoms and the annual pollen dump; it might be the coronavirus. I have no (more…)
I know it’s a No-Post Sunday, but some of us have a job to do while you sit at home and binge Netflix. Put Friends down (it’s not tough to manage; that show sucked almost as bad as Seinfeld) and read.
For a country so dedicated to the news, we sure are ignorant (more…)
Now that the news has broken (props to Lee Fang of The Intercept), it’s finally OK for me to write this. It’s been killing me for weeks, knowing that I’d never get confirmation.
A week before Super Tuesday, the big news was the formation of two SuperPACs designed to inject life into campaigns that had started to founder: PersistPAC and (more…)
I thought it would never happen. Either Gabbard or Yang was going to stay in way too long and then endorse Sanders, was my prediction. And now they’ve both let me down.
I mean, yeah, sure, nobody could have predicted the election would pivot to be about the Coronavirus. Taking down Trump I can see, and I even anticipated that the Democratic establishment would fear a Sanders presidency even more than a Trump (more…)
I’m on a rail siding just outside of Toledo, just kinda sitting here, watching an empty parking lot.
No, not just me. There’s a whole train here, waiting for a heavy freight to get past. But everyone else on board is asleep (not that there’s many of us) so it might as well just be me. I just finished my book — rereading John Steakley’s “Armor”, one of the best (more…)
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