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May 18 2020
Purging
I want to talk with you about vomiting blood. It’s not very pleasant. First of all you are, by definition, nauseous and you probably have a headache because of the anemia but that’s not the interesting part. Your vomit comes out kind of black until it hits the toilet water where it turns a spectacular …
May 18 2020
Cartnoon
Well, I suppose there are worse Heros to emulate. The show follows secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, who works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles and as an agent for a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services (DXS). Educated as a scientist …
May 17 2020
I do not fear the dark side as you do.
I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire. What Liberals Don’t Get About Trump Supporters and Pop Culture By DEREK ROBERTSON, Politico 05/16/2020 When President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, triumphantly invoked the “Star Wars” universe to liken the president’s reelection effort to the “Death Star,” all but ready …
May 17 2020
No Sports?
What? Turn Left Bumper Cars in Flaming Chunks of Twisted Metal and Bundesliga? Do you even know who Borussia Dortmund is? World Fencing Championships- Budapest 2019
May 15 2020
Consumer Society
Or maybe not so much. In March and April the bottom dropped out of Retail. Retail sales plunged 16.4 percent in April as coronavirus pandemic drives record decline By Rachel Siegel and Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post May 15, 2020 Retail sales plunged 16.4 percent in April, by far the biggest drop on record and another …
May 15 2020
Regime Change
What makes it odd is The Lancet is a very old and well respected Medical Journal that doesn’t normally take partisan positions. Reviving the US CDC The Lancet May 16, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen in the USA with 1·3 million cases and an estimated death toll of 80,684 as of May 12. …
May 14 2020
Prince Prospero’s Party
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of …
May 14 2020
Why would they?
So there are no plans if, as seems likely, our 2 top Constitutional Officers die or become incapacitated because of Coronavirus. Well, it doesn’t matter if there are plans or not. It’s what the Constitution says and Mark Meadows is no Al Haig (and I mean that in a negative way, Haig was an asshole, …