Marina Koren watched the movie (she was probably a little kid in Russia when it first came out) for the first time.
I keep hearing the phrase “the new normal.” I think I’ll write about why we haven’t had a normal for a couple centuries. With technological change, we’ve always had societal change.
This woman calls herself a lesbian, but she’s obviously someone who was always bi.
It could be much worse.
I tweeted a couple weeks ago that I wasn’t worried about the virus, because I’d already been killed by Trump’s election, the end of Net Neutrality, and the tax-rate cuts.
[Update early afternoon]
The Constitution dies of coronavirus.
It had a good run. The Bee has been on fire throughout this.
A twelve-year old Boy Scout has come up with a 3-D printed solution to a face-mask problem.
Thoughts from Eugene Volokh.
Our biggest problem continues to be a paucity of information. The old saying is that knowledge is power, and right now, we’re still pretty powerless in that regard.
[Update a while later]
Pandemics come and go, but medical masks are eternal.
Another promising new drug.
Whitmer is being touted as Biden’s running mate, but that was before this. She wasn’t particularly popular as governor, having been swept in with the blue tide in 2018. So far, she’s been getting a boost from this, but I’ll be interested to see her polling in the wake of her petty tyranny. And not just her, but all such petty tyrants. I hope people will remember this fall.
[Update a few minutes later]
Or a crying baby?
We’ve been the latter for far too long. We raised a generation of them. I hope this changes that.
The world’s largest supercomputer has found 77 of them.
That’s fast, but faster, please.
How they wrecked the economy.
They both are overdue for a thorough overhaul, to the degree that they should even exist.