IS FOR DESPERATE.



Just a random thought for the 2020 election season. (I considered 'deplorable' but in my mind 'desperate' is even lower.)

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for April 14, 2020:

Well, so much for my 'biased but consistent' data set. The State of New York just royally screwed up the data by suddenly adding 3700 'excess' deaths previously unreported as coronavirus cases as they hadn't been confirmed. You'll see the sharp jump in all the data below.

Given the data is no longer even remotely consistent, I'll withhold further comment on the data and instead leave you with this (jaundiced) opinion: I trust Gov. Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio about as far as a frail 108-year old woman in the last stages of death by coronavirus could throw them. This is a political ploy, plain and simple.

I'll figure out how to deal with it -- or not at all -- tomorrow.

ENOUGH ALREADY: Your 'help' is destroying America.

There are two ways despots comes to power. One is to kill their way into control. The more insidious way is to promise to “take care of you.” Wannabe despots don’t bother explaining the fine print: “They will decide what’s good for you, once you’ve handed that power over to them.”

We may have chosen the latter, but the result is the same.

BUT THE MONEY KEEPS ME GOING: I don't like what I do professionally. So quit already; do us all a favor.

Update: money talks louder; Cuomo backs away (... taken out of context -- yeah).

RANDOM THOUGHT: I have to say there's one good outcome from the coronavirus pandemic -- it cured me of my television habit.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Bernie tests negative for President.

TOP DOWN BUREAUCRATIC INSANITY: Our local grocery store opens for 'coronavirus fragile' people only (i.e., seniors) from 7 am to 8 am; yet they can't by beer until 9 am.

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN an American president as spiritually impoverished as Donald Trump. And there has never been an author as mentally impoverished as Tom Nichols....

IT'S A CHICKEN/EGG PROBLEM: Does liberalism cause mental illness?

SARAH HOYT writes on spherical cows of uniform density in a frictionless vacuum and other magical things (like coronavirus modeling).

It's longish, but Hoyt is an exceedingly good writer, and her summary of the sheer idiocy of globalist, one-size-fits-all solutions to every problem is excellent.

SOME RATIONAL PERSPECTIVES on the Covid-19 pandemic.

The difficulty with a rational perspective is that mankind is not full of rational people; it is full of rationalizing people.

FROM AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: 'Liberal Arts Degrees' Renamed 'Non-Essential Worker Degrees'.

To re-coin an old phrase: 'fake but accurate'.

OH, COME ON: You health nannies can't even deal with a virus competently.

ROUNDUP TIME: HOAs, Snitches and ChiCom Dupes.

INTERESTING, ISN'T IT, that it comes out now when no one's paying attention: Crossfire Hurricane team knew Steele dossier likely contained ‘Russian disinformation.’

THEY'RE CRAZY. What the hell is wrong with these Democrats?

PROACTIVE? Or punishment for having a contrary view? Click through to read the entire post.

I'm clearly -- and correctly -- on the punishment side of the fence.

SHOE knows real coffee.