Things of which Lileks is mightily tired.
Me, too.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Michigan Backlash
Some county sheriffs are refusing to enforce Half-Whitmer’s idiotic orders.
[Update a while later]
It figures that Michigan was one of the first states to see protests. Well, it has one of the worst governors.
[Friday-morning update]
China is impressed with Michigan’s arbitrary totalitarian policies.
[Bumped]
After The Plague
Gut-Check Time
Car Shopping
…will probably be going on line, for good. Test drives do seem like the hardest part.
Isolation Thoughts
…from Lileks.
Laugh Tracks
A history. When they had audience laughter at things that weren’t actually funny, I always found it annoying.
And I didn’t know that Sharon Tate played Jethro’s first love.
[Update early afternoon]
Related: Church adds laugh track to pastor’s jokes.
Xi Jinping
Did he deliberately sicken the world?
I wouldn’t put it past him.
[Update a couple minutes later’
World turns to China to come clean.
No, I won’t be holding my breath, either.
[Update a while later]
How China corrupted the WHO response to the virus.
[Afternoon update]
Heh. Wuhan lab changes sign to “0 Days Since Accidentally Releasing A Virus.”
Leftism
Does it cause mental illness?
Not sure which direction the causality is here.
The Tyrannical States
Bob Zimmerman is not happy (to put it mildly).
Legally, it’s not really martial law, which is when the military literally takes over, but it’s certainly multiple violations of the Bill of Rights.
[Update a few minutes later]
One way to improve the lockdown; stop being hypocritical tyrants.
[Update a few more minutes later]
South Dakota has a governor who is behaving responsibly, so the WaPo decided to smear her, because she’s (you know) a Republican.
[Update a few minutes later]
No, Raleigh police, protesting is in fact not a “non-essential activity.”
[Update a while later]
Note the comment at Bob Zimmerman’s post about the New Jersey dance instructor teaching on line alone in her studio, who was ordered to stop by the police, because she was “working.” Apparently, the state wants to make it illegal to earn a living, regardless of risk level.