Join the Disambiguation Gang right over there (scroll down just a bit) → Reading time – 3:18 . . . COVID-19 has at last caught up to our science-denying President. Of course, it was inevitable, given his flaunting of all protections, other than getting tested, which isn’t protection at all. By the time someone tests… [read more]
Reading time – 5:15 . . . BREAKING NEWS! Hope Hicks, President Trump’s closest aide, has tested positive for coronavirus. Hours after the announcement of her infection we learned that both the president and Mrs. Trump had tested positive for coronavirus, too. So have some senators and White House staffers, with more surely in the… [read more]
Join the Disambiguation Gang right over there → (scroll down just a bit) Ed Note – Apologies for the false alarm notification of a new Disambiguation yesterday. Entirely my mistake. In contrast, this one is for real. FLASH MESSAGE! Trump is doing every weasely thing he can to rig the election in his favor, including… [read more]
Join the Disambiguation Gang right over there → (scroll down just a bit) Reading time 3:11 . . . We have endured an onslaught of one catastrophe or outrageous event on top of another. That both keeps us from focusing on individual events and seeing them through to the end, as well as dulling us… [read more]
Join the Disambiguation Gang right over there (scroll down just a bit) → Reading time – 4:48 . . . Update To The Trump Election-Rigging Show This is an occasional feature of these posts to and through the November election, as Trump attempts to manipulate, lie and cheat* his way to staying in office. Recall… [read more]
Reading time – 3:42 . . . Be sure to see the Bonus Opportunity at the end of this post. ————————- Regular readers of this column will recognize my occasionally offered behavior geek comment that most people simply don’t react to danger until it is in our faces. Climate warming is an easy example, as… [read more]
Reading time – 4:39 . . . Immediately following the DNC convention and Joe BIden’s speech, regular reader and sometimes commenter Dan Giallombardo felt the need to put his reactions in writing. He gave me permission to show you his offering in this guest essay. It’s being posted today both so that you can appreciate… [read more]
Reading time – 5:25 . . . Friend Mel passed along a link to a USA Today article which reported an exercise that was conducted by both red and blue pundits who gamed out the upcoming election. The report said: “After gaming out various scenarios, the group said its conclusions were ‘alarming:’ In an election… [read more]
Reading time – 6:14 . . . Conspiracy theories about vaccines abound. As well, reasonable, science based objections have made solid challenges to vaccines, too. Regardless, history tells us that blind acceptance of vaccines probably isn’t a good idea. Take, for instance, the recent comments of FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn. He insisted that any Covid-19… [read more]
Reading time – 5:41; Viewing time – 8:22 . . . The political circumstances and the prospects for the future quality for life for the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are becoming increasingly shaky and he is becoming more and more unhinged. Even desperate. He knows that if he is removed from office he… [read more]
