I feel Andrew Ferguson’s pleasure. Life has changed very little for me, other than having Patricia home every day, instead of just weekends (which was going to happen anyway, with her retirement).
Unlike him, though, I do have to confess to enjoying hugs from attractive women.
She’s been putting out an entertaining newsletter for a while. Here‘s her latest.
Isolation thoughts from Lileks.
[Update a while later]
We went for a drive on Saturday into Manhattan Beach, where the beach (like all LA County beaches) was closed. It was a ghost town, with just a few people walking around, and we could have parked almost anywhere. The most surreal thing was to see The Kettle closed. That restaurant has been 24/7 for decades. They’re not even doing takeout, just shuttered.
This is amusing. I suspect that purchasers of “essential oils” are more likely to be receptive to phrases like “Hope and change.”
[Monday-morning update]
Related: The woman who idiotically ingested aquarium-tank cleaner and poisoned her husband was a prolific donor to Democrat causes.
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…and it may never fully recover.
And get ready for more exits; Italians are burning the EU flag.
I think that this is probably the most significant European event since the end of the war. The project, and the conceit of globalism in general, is coming apart at the seams.
[Update a few minutes later]
But wait! There’s more: Calls in France to “buy French.”
…has exposed Americans’ disconnect from reality.
[Update a while later]
Nancy Pelosi and the politics pandemic.
[Update a while later]
Goodbye, Green New Deal.
Set aside, for the moment, any reservations you might have about the coronavirus-emergency regime, and set aside your views on climate change, too, whatever they may be. Instead, ask yourself this: If Americans are this resistant to paying a large economic price to enable measures meant to prevent a public-health catastrophe in the here and now — one that threatens the lives of people they know and love — then how much less likely are they to bear not weeks or months but decades of disruption and economic dislocation and a permanently diminished standard of living in order to prevent possibly severe consequences to people in Bangladesh or Indonesia 80 or 100 years from now?
Not a prayer.
[Update later morning]
Yes, the president is not wrong: Pelosi is a sick puppy.
Does Joe Biden believe Tara Reade?
[Update late afternoon]
How brave of the #MeToo Legal Fund.
Yeah, let’s take these people seriously.
[Update Saturday morning]
Will Biden live up to his own principles?
That’s a big ask; I don’t think he has any.
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[Update a while later]
And the mainstream media remains silent.
Not surprising; they don’t have any principles, either, other than a will to power.
[Monday-morning update]
The Democrats and sexual assault: They never learn.
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[Afternoon update]
Why are the media ignoring Reade’s claims?
I’m pretty sure I know why.
Pornhub Premium is going temporarily free to encourage you to stay home.
It’s good marketing; it may get people to sign up after this is over. Wonder what it will do to their server/bandwidth costs, though?
My sense is that to the degree that they have different accents, it’s class based, not regional. That is, most of the people I meet are probably upper middle, whereas someone Rugby Union might speak strine so thick that it would be almost unintelligible to me.
…is dire.
I’ve never frequented them much; I think the price for a drink at one is ridiculous, but they’re an important element of culture.