Over a 50% unemployment rate?
What a disaster.
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, this news about Hokkaido’s second wave isn’t great.
[Update Saturday morning]
California’s “Reopening Task Force” is the usual leftist hacks, who don’t want a pandemic to go to waste. It would be a joke if not for how disastrous this will be.
No, it’s not going to be easy. Some things will be changed permanently.
[Update at noon]
Six things we’ve learned so far. The sixth is probably the most important. People are going to try to take advantage of this to do what they’ve always wanted to do.
He has a big problem.
Yup. And accordingly the Democrats have one, too, if they persist in making him their nominee.
The woke crowd has taken another scalp.
Has anyone else ever cut up a box and folded that picture so her knees look like her bared bosom?
…were flawed and misleading.
As with climate, models are not science.
Things of which Lileks is mightily tired.
Me, too.
An article on the legal state of asteroid mining. This isn’t true, though: “Much like the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the United States has not signed the Moon Agreement but by custom it adheres to the treaty — at least until Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which explicitly rejects the idea that such agreements are binding to the USA.”
Meanwhile, Michael Listner writes that we must return to the moon to preserve the rule of law in space. Well, that’s certainly a reason, but not the only (or even best) one.
I hope that the Republicans are getting their campaign ads ready. Fortunately, at least some Democrats realize how disastrous, both economically and politically, this could be. I have to say that I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Sinema. She doesn’t seem compelled to toe the party line.