I had to go to bed last night very early as I was so upset. I then thought, this is what this madman wants. I got up this morning and found there is plenty of evidence to back up the Atlantic, including The Washington Post, Associated Press and the infidel himself. First of all, there…
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Leana Wen praises Brayden Harrington in an important op ed
< p class=”is-empty-p”> for today’s Washington Post, posted yesterday afternoon, and titled I saw myself in Brayden Harrington’s story of stuttering. He showed us the power of sharing it openly. For the record, Dr. Wen has been a frequent presence on cable tv commenting on aspects of the pandemic. Leana Wen has had a long…
THIS IS IMPORTANT: Ed Yong's Atlantic article is an absolute MUST READ!!
Yes I am SHOUTING. That’s because this is about the most important thing you can read today. The piece is titled How the Pandemic Defeated America and is subtitled “A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.” Yong, a staff writer for The Atlantic, actually warned before Trump was inaugurated how…
IMPORTANT: Evictions and the election
Writing this because of the expiration tomorrow of the temporary protection from eviction for people whose rent or mortgages are through Federal programs (which means in 30 days if in default they can be evicted). Those people will no longer live at the same address. That means their voter registration becomes invalid. So do their…
4 important paragraphs from Lucian K Truscott IV
who is a graduate of West Point, a long-time journalist, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson who was key in getting the Jefferson descendants to recognize as kin those descended from Sally Hemings. They are the last four paragraphs of a piece in Salon titled r the arrest of the police who killed George Floyd….
Biden Polls Persistently Give Him the Advantage – Why This Is Important
CNN has a new report on the history of the Biden-Trump polls: Biden's in one of the best positions for any challenger since scientific polling began There were more than 40 national public polls taken at least partially in the month of May that asked about the Biden-Trump matchup. Biden led in every single one…
Trump Will Lose if He can't Define Biden – And That's Important
Presidential re-elections are normally a referendum on the incumbent. George W. Bush won re-election because he managed to shift the election to a referendum on John Kerry. (He was also a president in the middle of a war, and the Ohio Secretary of State was also his Ohio campaign chairman.) Trump is now — desperately…
This might be the most important piece to read on Covid-19
Ed Yong of The Atlantic hs a strong track record as a writer on medical issues. He has a new piece up, titled America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further and subtitled The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand. Normally…
This Doctor infected by COVID-19 teaches us an important lesson.
Dr. Joseph Fair was meticulous in staying disinfected and following the protocols to avoid COVID-19. Yet, this doctor could not escape an environment conducive to spread. This doctor illustrates why we are not ready x x YouTube Video Watch full episodes here. It is clear that a doctor working day in and day out with…
Trump tries to spin dead bodies, because jobs are more important than dying
All that remains from Trump is virtue signaling: ignore deaths, go back to work, you’ll be a warrior, and we’ll give you a flyover. I made this case at some length the other day. The imperative of creating the illusion of success is undermining the possibility of actual success. It turns out that this rationale…
A different take on the Dan Patrick statement “There more important things than living”
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick continued to display his lack of empathy on Tucker Carlson’s show by reinforcing his past comments about “reopening the economy” without real concern for deaths it will cause. He now says there are more important things than living, meaning the death of some to keep a vibrant economy is justified….
“There are more important things than living.” There's Trumpian feds hijacking the supply chain
Shakedowns of materiel like PPEs that demonstrate abuses of federal power are now de rigueur and should not be confused with fiscal policy or even neoliberal austerity. Disaster hides much venality. It’s about rank kleptocratic crony-capitalism in the form of market-cornering or cartelization. For example, Trump’s brag about ventilators is no different than a drug kingpin, especially as…
Live Blog – Trump on face coverings: “I would wear one if I thought it was important.”
Live Blog below. (Why yes, doing this is getting tiring, and I may give it up soon if only because the lies and campaign talking points are increasing. My interest in them is mainly for sound bites that often get edited out in transcripts) IMPOTUS* is expected to attend, expect more kayfabe 500pm EDT Members…
Things really important to me
First an apology. My post yesterday on my decision to vote for Warren (which I did at about 9:45 AM) and to contribute to her campaign ($100 online) was my first posting here in more than a month. Some may remember that in mid-November I suffered a stroke, later had surgery to relieve the stenosis…
Worrying about Bill Barr as Roy Cohn is more important than Trump's badger questions
It’s shark-jumping time in the White House. Remember that even the revenge-tour could be misdirection for other malign activity. Just to recap: 2/5: Trump is "acquitted" 2/6: Trump uses National Prayer Breakfast to promise vengeance 2/7: Trump starts firing witnesses 2/11: Career officials resign in protest as Trump administration intervenes in sentencing to protect Stone…
only moderates believe that being halfway to November 3 is important
So many believe that they are generally moderate or moderating because they cannot imagine themselves being so nonconforming that they cannot be sociable or civil in any situation. We are always conciliatory because we don’t really want to have someone tell us “DBAD”. We can support diversity up to and including that moment when that diversity…
disinformation is so important that Trump lawyers now want to nullify the impeachment
You cannot make this up. For the Xmas season until the bill of impeachment goes to the Senate, Trump wants to be able to fund-raise and frame media with historical revision by claiming he hasn’t been (yet) impeached. Only in America. Because lawfare trumps semantics. Note that this attempt also leverages meaning away from the…
Pundit Zerlina Maxwell poses an important question to Democrats they better heed
MSNBC Pundit Zerlina Maxwell admonishes the Democratic Party and the corporate mainstream media for positing the wrong question about who will bring victory to the party. She has been pushing the narrative for a long time and one hopes the party will take heed sooner than later. Maxwell points out a flaw in the thinking of the…
Charles M. Blow challenges us with important questions
His column for today’s New York Times is titled It's the Cruelty, Stupid and reminds us of so many of what I cannot help but describe as the transgressions against humanity and violations of American principles committed under the leadershipo/direction of the current occupant of the Oval Office, with the tolerance and even active support…
Mourning someone important to me
He was born as Alexandros Vapheides near Piraeus in Greece in October 1934, meaning he was about 11 ½ years older than me. Until I read obituaries today I did not know that name. To me he was always Geronda, Greek for Elder. His monastic name was Archimandrite Aimilianos. I met him 1981, during my…
