…even in crisis, if you let them. Laws against “price gouging” are economically insane.
Bob Zimmerman
We’ve been wearing one, not because we really think it keeps us or others safer, but simply out of current social etiquette. And we only do it inside, not when simply outside.
[Update a while later]
People are silently withdrawing their consent from the State.
Some not-so-silently, too.
[Update Saturday morning]
Mask shaming is just the latest form of virtue signaling.
[Bumped]
Lord Of The Flies
Why it should no longer be required reading (to the degree that it is).
I remember reading it as a kid, and it didn’t read true to me in the same way that Animal Farm did.
Eric Swallwell
Oh, looky here! He was caught red handed witness tampering.
Vitamin D
…seems to play a role in coronavirus response. I take supplements, but the cruel irony of the stay-at-home orders is that, for many, it makes it hard for the body to produce it naturally.
The Cruel “New Normal”
How America arrived at the dumb reopening.
Coming Attractions
NASA dropped this video yesterday. It’s like a movie trailer.
Little Richard
I was never a big fan, but he clearly was a seminal figure in rock and roll. RIP, after a long life.
[Update a while later]
Reflections from Dan McLaughlin.
[Update a while more later]
Tesla
Elon has had enough of California, at least when it comes to making cars, if not rockets.
Justice
The Justice Department has dropped the case against Michael Flynn.
The next question is whether anyone will be punished for this. Only Durham’s team (and probably Barr) know the answer to that. Also, kudos to the tenacity of Sidney Powell.
[Update a few minutes later]
More from the AP. Note the anti-Trump spin.
[Update a while later]
Here’s how the hacks at AP describe Sidney Powell: “a conservative commentator and outspoken critic of Mueller’s investigation .”
They apparently didn’t think that it was worth noting that she was a former assistant U.S. Attorney at the Department of Justice, back in the days when it lived up to its name somewhat better.
[Saturday-morning update]
John Solomon: The dirty dozen revelations that sunk Mueller’s case against Flynn.
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
Jim Jordan has a very pithy op-ed.