…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.
The Ethanol Standard
Yes, get rid of it. Take it behind the barn and kill it with an ax. It was always stupid, but in a time of possible food shortages, and oil at historic lows, it’s an insane policy. We had stopped using food for transportation at the turn of the 20th century, but these morons decided to bring the notion back.
Irony Abounds
It looks like Putin turned the FBI into a Russian asset.
Federalism
A remedial explanation for Jonah Goldberg.
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.