I guess ice cream lovers everywhere. But the “let them eat cake” comparisons are irresistible and inevitable (although you probably won’t see them emanating from the left): We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these … Continue reading →
See Ace on this. It’s hard to say whether this is a new low on the part of the Times in recent years (there were even lower lows in the more distant past, such as Duranty), because there’s so much … Continue reading →
Big yawn. Of course he does. The part that made me chuckle in a rather bitter way was this: “I believe Joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now.” “All the qualities we need.” Those qualities? … Continue reading →
Here it is April 14, and I haven’t done my taxes. I could have done them and probably should have done them, but as a procrastinator I’ve put them off because of the delayed deadline. How about you?
Continue reading →[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] Flu (otherwise known as influenza) has been around far longer than COVID. Flu comes every year and it kills a lot of people. So one might think that we know a great deal … Continue reading →
Have you noticed how many of the sites that purport to give information about how to protect yourself and your family from COVID-19 give contradictory and/or confusing information? My guess is that a lot of the reason is that the … Continue reading →
I certainly do. COVID-19 has eclipsed most everything (even on this blog), but it really shouldn’t. Of course, there’s also the very real question of whether anything will ever happen to the people who perpetrated the abuse, short of getting … Continue reading →
Gretchen Whitmer is the governor of Michigan. Till COVID struck, I’d never heard of her, but then I don’t live in Michigan or near it. COVID has given her a fame of sorts, because she has clamped down on the … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Rufus T. Firefly”] A jack of all trades:
Continue reading →Have a wonderful holiday! Also some good news: Boris Johnson is out of the hospital. He will be recuperating further at Chequers, the official country residence of British prime ministers.
Continue reading →What are you doing to keep yourselves busy? For me it’s rather simple. I still do a lot of reading and writing and thinking (hopefully not in that exact order). That’s what I do each day anyway, and it takes … Continue reading →
Sorry, I don’t have an answer. But I have some thoughts on it. First of all, we have to re-open, although doing it in stages and to different degrees in different locations is fine with me. Not only is it … Continue reading →