COVID COVID Hoax Hoax, Evil Vaccines, Mask Assaults, Passports, Musicals

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  • I sometimes tell folks that I’ll be happy when the COVID hoax is over so I can stop injecting household cleaning products. Usually I’ll get a courtesy laugh, or at least a sympathy chuckle.
     
    Iron Knee at Political Irony takes on those who militantly refuse mere evidence, a few even getting sick drinking bleach, and takes a brief look at the hoax hoax.
     
  • Okay, this is a new one. PZ Myers finds what just might be the stupidest reason ever not to get the jab. RNA will replace DNA which starts with D and so does Door. Besides, RNA starts with R and so does …wait for it… Ra.
     
    Well, that settles it.
     
  • There are rules, and there are masks, and there are those who resist both. In MadMikesAmerica Michael John Scott points to major airlines who object, arrest-and-heavy-fines-type object, to occasional passengers who assault attendants.
     
  • Conservatives are angry at vaccines. And they are especially angry at the idea that some businesses might want proof their patrons have been vaccinated. There is some contradiction here. Conservatives have always been opposed to government telling businesses how to operate.
     
    But Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is insistent. Businesses operating in Florida must not be allowed to require vaccine passports which is what conservatives are calling the little cards we get along with the jab.
     
    Frances Langum takes a look at how one industry will be reacting. Cruise lines expect business to wayyy drop off if they can’t guarantee passengers that they won’t get infected by vaccine-deniers.
     
    Let’s break this down:

    • Cruises happen on very large marine craft.
    • Boats have rudders.
    • Cruise ships can steer to other states that allow them to keep passengers safe.

     
    SOOooo… can we all do what DeSantis has trouble doing, and think of what might happen to Florida’s cruise industry?

  • COVID isolation is sometimes accompanied by emotional distress. At The Onion, experts say the best treatment for depression remains having coal-covered street urchins sing about dancing your troubles away.
     
  • I suppose, without having the means to know, that, besides the obvious, racism also inflicts harm that is almost impossible to see from the outside: harm that may not always be easy to see even by those who directly experience it.
     
    Journalist Imani Gandy internalized some of the stereotypes through childhood and into adulthood to the extent of thinking she was a crack baby. It took what must have been a frightening discovery of a small mass that did not belong in her brain to provoke her to find the truth. It also provoked a vow never to let stereotypes define her again.
     
    I am what most might call elderly, born during the Truman administration, but there are writers who have the ability to teach me something about the virtues of maybe growing up. At least I’m considering it.
     
  • Every once in a while, more today than even a few years ago, public figures don’t hesitate to say these things out loud. Tommy Christopher covers the reaction after a Colorado State Representative says, in the direction of Black colleagues, “Don’t worry, Buckwheat. I’m getting there.
     
    He later offered an if I’ve offended anybody apology. Really. That’s what he said.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life analyzes why the Republican Party is shrinking, why it is becoming more overtly racist, why it is resorting to suppress-the-vote campaigns, and how Democrats (and democrats) can fight back. AND, quite properly, Stacey Abrams becomes a verb.
     
  • Dave Dubya achieves a degree of empathy with white conservatives fed up with all the racism they find directed against them.
     
  • driftglass notes important figures in the development of today’s Republican Party who do not wish to be identified as having anything to do with the development of today’s Republican Party.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger offers a brief, pretty much wordless, completely accurate, history of Republican deficit hawks.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors covers the felony charges against one January 6 Trump-rioter, and the legal defense he now offers. He was infected by Foxitus and Foxmania, his lawyer’s words. So there you have it. The formal legal defense of a Capitol Hill rioter, offered in court, is that the Fox network is an infectious disease.
     
  • It’s like a movie review complete with spoilers. Except true believers think it’s the absolute truth. Green Eagle breaks down, moment by breathless moment, the epic QAnon fantasy about the trial and execution of Hillary Clinton. The saddest part of the tale is the true story about the story.
     
  • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson analyzes The Big Lie as inherited from Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. It is a lie so huge people believe it because they can’t imagine anyone making it up. As in Biden didn’t really win.
     
  • So a truly miserable human being, Liz Cheney, makes a brave stand. Max’s Dad can’t bring himself to stop watching the resulting Republican mud wrestle, but also can’t quite bring himself to admire Ms. Cheney’s profile in whatever.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice Dorian de Wind says what Republicans are engaged in is analogous to a natural practice in the animal world.
     
  • I remember when William Shatner came back after Star Trek to play law enforcement officer T.J Hooker who was always on patrol in his police cruiser. One television personality, I can’t remember who, felt sorry for him.
    He used to be in charge of a Starship! – – – Now he drives a Chevy?
     
    M. Bouffant at Web of Evil does not seem at all saddened at the spectacle of the once-upon-a-leader of the most powerful nation on the planet who now rants from the steps of a patio.
     
  • Some are calling it nothing more than a blog. Andy Borowitz covers the new social media platform that our once-upon-a-president has started. He is urging supporters to follow him on Facebook Total Landscaping.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit comes across a photo from Donald Trump’s speech to conservatives at CPAC shortly after the the January 6 riot and the count confirming his total and complete loss to current President Joe Biden. She notices something striking about the arrangement of the lights.
     
  • So the guy is selling you Trump toys for the lady in your life? Julian Sanchez demonstrates the surefire way to know it’s fake.
     
  • The Ant Farmer’s Almanac tells it. Giuliani calls the FBI raid on his home and office a blatant attempt at enforcing the rule of law.
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged contemplates the newest travails of citizen Rudy. Vixen seems oddly unsympathetic.
     
  • In Hackwhackers, Senator Mitch McConnell does not seem to realize that he is proving why Senate Democrats should not even think about negotiating with Republicans.
     
  • Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) acknowledges the FBI warned him in private nine months ago that he was the target of Russian disinformation. But he knew they were wrong, and now he realizes it was all a conspiracy to embarrass him many months later, well after the election which was then three months away. Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is impatient with nonsense, even conservative nonsense, and recalls television cartoons from his youth.
     
  • Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki will someday leave the White House. Pity. News Corpse is entertained as she handles gotcha questions, smiling in her soft friendly way, then ripping apart conservative journalists who pose the gotchas. A couple of slice and dice examples are offered for our amusement.
     
  • The governor of Oregon is about to sign a law mandating safe storage of firearms, and the prohibition of guns in the State Capitol. Nan’s Notebook provides fair and balanced coverage of arguments. A Republican lawmaker needs a gun because he feels threatened walking past homeless, destitute people as he leaves the building. And a nurse is close to tears, testifying about a little kid finding a gun under a bed and how her best efforts could not save the child that was shot.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, one time pastor, now atheist, Bruce explains from personal experience what evangelicals mean by freedom of religion and how it differs from the dictionary definition.
     
  • We’ve all seen bumper sticker theology.
    God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It!
     
    As religious folks and committed ideologues can tell you, you don’t really need evidence or logic for what you know deep inside to be true.
     
    When confronting the question of whether capitalism benefits the working class, libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara patiently answers. There are no classes, because capitalism is about individualism. And it benefits everyone.
     
    Michael knows this, not only because he embraces the philosophy of freedom, but because he has seen and lived it his own self.
    Yup. Philosophy plus it worked for me.
     
    And that settles it.
     
  • The beloved father of North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz never received, or even saw, the cup of coffee prepared for him. Pastor John contemplates that cup and the lesson it provides about death and the embrace of life while it is still ours to embrace.
     
  • Infidel753 celebrates the technological triumph of the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, and explains in cogent terms that seem impervious to challenge, why humans will never colonize Mars or any other planet.
     
    We have one planet, one home.
     
  • Nojo applies balance to news media coverage as Aesop and the Brothers Grimm get taken to court.
     
  • Sarah Cooper discovers a way to finally understand her ex-boyfriend.
     
  • Reductress reviews 4 nude lipsticks that will have them saying Where is her mouth?: fresh as it is confusing!
     
  • The Journal of Improbable Research finds two medical studies on the efficacy and safety of coffee enemas. Traditionalist that I am, I still intend to take mine orally, although I appreciate the, uh, input.

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