Category Archives: Health

Half-Whitmer

Michigan has possibly the worst governor in America.

I was talking to my brother, who lives just south of Flint, about this yesterday, when we talked for Easter. They usually drive down to Southfield on holidays to visit with his wife’s family, but couldn’t do it due to the lockdown order.

She’s not up for re-election until 2022, but maybe she could be recalled. But she’s also on the list to be Biden’s running mate, because she has the right number of X chromosomes. Not at all clear that she would strengthen the ticket in MI, though, in the wake of this tyrannical idiocy.

[Late-morning update]

As George Turner notes in comments, there’s a very popular recall petition at Change.org.

[Update a while later]

More at Redstate.

[Update a few minutes later]

Wow, the signatures are coming in more than one per second. My brother, his wife, and their two kids have signed. My question is, is there a legal recall procedure? I don’t think this petition has any legal weight.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Here is the procedure. The petition has to first be approved, then needs 25% of the people who voted in the last general election in the state. Looks like it would force a gubernatorial election in November, in which she’d have to defend her office against challenger(s).

[Update a couple minutes later]

This is the official manual for how do it. There were four and a quarter million votes in 2018, so the petition would need a little over a million signatures. Based on the Change.org petition, that seems doable.

[Update a few minutes later]

She’s not the only one; this is exposing the little tyrants all over the country.

[Update early afternoon]

These petty authoritarians are getting out of hand.

[Tuesday-morning update]

Michigan business people: Why is our state different?

Because your state elected a moron in 2018 as governor.

[Update a while later]

While Trump rants, it’s the governors who are being the Captain Queegs.

Closing Nature

With all the March and April rain, I figured it would be a good year for poppies in the desert, but they closed the reserve on Wednesday. Anza Borrego is closed, too, except to residents of Borrego Springs.

We’d like to just go for a drive, to seen the green hills and flowers, but Patricia is afraid of getting pulled over. But I don’t think they’re doing that, and I don’t think they should even be discouraging driving. There is no risk of spread from it, other than the occasional need to get gas. It seems like they should be offering options for relief from cabin fever.

[Sunday-morning update]

We took a drive around Palos Verdes peninsula yesterday. Lovely drive as always, with mustard on the hillsides greening everything up.

Couldn’t pull over at view areas, trails closed, bike paths closed, beaches closed, Point Vicente (where we go to watch the whales migrating) closed. Drove past the hospital ship in San Pedro. The 710 and 405 were eerily empty, like it was 3 AM.