Violent Anti-Science, Mask & Beyond, Ex-Hugger, Remote School, Election

• Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes brings us G.K. Chesterton from over a century ago to guide us through these tough times.
   
• In Scotties Toy Box, it turns out lots of folks around the country are nuts. Lots of those nuts are violent nuts. And enough of those violent nuts are here in Missouri to cause the resignation of a health official dedicated to saving their lives. A county health director talks about science and facts, so she and her children are threatened. Nice
   
• JoAnn Williams speculates on the predictable consequences of not wearing a mask. Suppose you die. Well, you may have a right to risk your life, right? How about the others you cause to die?
   
• In Nan’s Notebook, we find a few common sense steps we can take to contain a vicious pandemic beyond just wearing a mask.
   
• John Scalzi at Whatever has serious doubts that, even after COVID, he could ever again be a hugger.
   
• @momwino98 is a parent still adjusting to having a youngster attend virtual school from home.
   
• In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson notes a grim milestone. A quarter of a million American deaths while my president is solely dedicated to subverting the election in which the voters turned him out.
   
• As explanations go it’s a bit complex, but Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson brings it off. James goes to the state’s past elections to demonstrate the difference between a miscount and a tallying error. There are checks, cross-checks, and counter-checks on tallies. Tallying errors are spotted and corrected right away because they throw everything out of balance. Conclusion: Minor clerical errors have already been spotted and corrected. SOooo…. Donald Trump can recount as much as he wants. Wisconsin still goes to Biden.
   
• Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, watches as what the Trump team is calling their elite strike force dives ever deeper into weird conspiratorial waters.
   
• At The Onion, Rudy Giuliani goes to court to present his absolute best evidence of mail-ballot irregularities. That would be best. Okay, it’s satire. But it’s close.

• Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit counts the crazy number of mental steps and the huge amount of nerve, even with the motivational help of death threats, a public official has to take to believe Trump won Georgia this year.
   
• Trump seems to have no shortage of backup plans. Problem is each one is more hare-brained (or in Giuliani’s brown sweat case, hair-brained) than the next. Stop the count here, keep it going there, demand a recount, get Lindsey to “joke” with state officials about throwing out Biden votes, stop certification, meet state legislators to talk about overriding mere ballots, and on and on. In Hackwhackers, Texas gun-toters stand ready, listening in case Trump blows the trumpet for the ultimate recourse.
   
• When Trump despises someone, there is no end to it. Andy Borowitz reports as Giuliani files the newest lawsuit on behalf of Trump, seeking to overturn Obama’s 2008 election. America had no right to vote the way America voted.
   
• Votes have been cast. Votes have been counted. But Max’s Dad will not celebrate Biden’s election until every twist has been untwisted, every tangle has been untied, every corner has been turned, every trick has been untricked, and democracy actually prevails.
   
• Can the eye see itself? Only upon reflection. nojo becomes our national mirror for the week. Trump-folk will eventually lose, and we’ll dodge the quadrennial bullet. Since we can’t bring ourselves to peep around corners, we’ll think about how lucky we are that everything works the way it was designed to work. After that we’ll finally relax. And shoot the same electoral college weapon at ourselves again in four years. Then every four years after that until the bullet no longer misses.
   
• Glenn Geist, in MadMikesAmerica, finds an ancient parallel to Trump and company in Rome, several decades before Julius Caesar, as participants in the Cataline conspiracy are dealt with harshly. Cicero, for one, was quite irritated.
   
• Michael Conway (no relation to George) has some experience with this sort of thing. He helped with the House Judiciary Committee Watergate report in 1974 on the prospective impeachment of Richard Nixon. That was then. Tommy Christopher walks us through Conway’s current recommendation. When Joe Biden becomes President Biden, it seems he should pardon Donald Trump. Seriously. Outraged reaction is appended for our entertainment.
   
• The unreasonable demands of public office! Reductress brings us an empathetic report on Republican lawmakers struggling to pronounce the foreign, complicated phrase, “Vice President Harris”.
   
• Infidel753 brings a couple of excellent videos explaining how Biden won, while other Democrats everywhere lost.
   
• Dave Dubya reminds us that Republicans have become the party of the brave warrior hiding in his twitter bunker.
   
• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger finds a plausible candidate for Governor of Texas. I dunno. A popular actor becoming governor of a large state? Can never happen.
   
• Oh my, again. Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara defines biased journalism as any article that uses such terms as climate damaging, since everyone knows climate damage is unestablished speculation. Scientists? What do they know compared with Ayn Rand?
   
• In the Ant Farmer’s Almanac, Trump provides a quick Thanksgiving Turkey surprise.
   
• At The Moderate Voice, David Robertson finds a non-Trump, non-Giuliani, non-Sydney Powell candidate for biggest jerk of the decade.
   
• Hey bloggers! The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study by Perdue University on what sort of title makes the best click bait.
   
• Medical costs are high. But folks like me, which is to say those requiring routine medical care, or folks like me, which is to say survivors of spectacular highway experiences, are less financially affected if we have good work coverage or an excellent legal case.
   
  M. Bouffant has been going through the darker side of American medical care. As you might expect, it seems to affect his disposition. Of course, we wish our friend the best.
   
  Then we hide until he fully recovers his usual sunny disposition.
   
  At Web of Evil. That would be Web of Evil

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