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.
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.
The Declassifications
…show that Durham is the Democrats’ biggest nightmare.
[Afternoon update]
We cannot have two standards of justice in this country.
Sadly, apparently we can, because we certainly have for decades. Hopefully, that’s coming to an end.
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.
Dune
There’s apparently a new remake coming out.
Unpopular opinion (which I’ve probably expressed here before): Dune is the most overrated book in SF. And the sequels were terrible.
On a sad note, I recently decided to finally pick up The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, which has been on the bookshelf for decades (paperback), and read it. I couldn’t get more than a few pages in. Heinlein really needed an editor in his later years.