For the better part of the past two days I’ve been watching people – some smart, some earnest, and a lot who are disingenuous – freak out that GEN Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has somehow single handedly destroyed over 240 years of civilian control of the US military. He hasn’t. …
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Oh Mah Gawd! Is That Floriduh! Man’s Music?!?!
Floriduh says hold mah beer! Brazilian viper venom shows promise as drug to combat Covid https://t.co/zgDB9e33oE pic.twitter.com/BkYnoL4cea — The Hill (@thehill) September 2, 2021 As a native Floriduhian, I guarantee someone in Miami actually owns one of these. I can also guarantee that either he or someone he knows will use it to try to …
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Bring On The Meteor
In our afternoon open thread, valued and highly technically competent commenter dmsilev pointed to this piece by Beth Mole, writing in Ars Technica. There is, it seems, an even dumber crowd than the flat earthers: Listen up, sheeple: COVID-19 doesn’t exist. Viruses don’t cause disease, and they aren’t contagious. Those doctors and health experts who …
It Can Happen Here
I, like many here, have said that we’re in an existential moment for the Republic. But I’ll confess that for all the cynicism and world-weariness I’ve accumulated over the years of Trump and the GOP’s steady turn towards authoritarianism, I still held on to the delusion that the US really had a robust immune system …
Today In Revolutionary Warfare: Kevin McCarthy “Jokes” About Hitting Nancy Pelosi
In May I wrote about the ongoing revolutionary warfare being conducted in the US by elected and appointed Republican officials at all levels of government in America in general, and how Senator McConnell’s blocking a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol on 6 January as a specific example of it. …
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson Does Not Seem To Understand What a Public Health Emergency Is
Earlier today and faced with not having a single free ICU bed available in Arkansas as a result of the delta variant sweeping through unvaccinated Arkansas like me at an all you can eat standing rib roast buffet, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson declared a public health emergency. BREAKING: Arkansas Governor Hutchinson declares public health emergency, …
In Case Anyone Was Wondering What All the Meshugas About Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Is About, Allow Me To Try To Explain
On Monday, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, which is no longer owned by anyone named Ben and/or Jerry, issued a statement. Specifically: Ben & Jerry’s Will End Sales of Our Ice Cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory July 19, 2021 We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to …