Trump Whines About His COVID-19 Victimhood as Campaign Flails | Vanity Fair
"Bottom line is Americans want security. They want to feel safe in the realm of national security, and they want to feel economically secure."
5.30.2020
Voters want their mommy: Democrats win
These things…
Don't mess with this one
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot to Trump: 'What I really want to say … begins with F and it ends with U'
My kinda town.
5.29.2020
The boat bloc
Trump embraces a new kind of rally: The 'Trumptilla' - POLITICO
In Florida, Trump has a net approval rating among boat owners of about 18 percentage points…
Yes! There is stuff about the pandemic we haven't mentioned yet
Sales of mints are down 30 percent and sales of chewing gum are down 28 percent but people are buying more toothpaste and mouthwash and staying, for the most part, six feet away. Whew.
Sales of impulse buy items dip as social distancing alters checkout lines
5.28.2020
I went to the CVS this afternoon…
Right on this
Senator calls for State Department to stop sale of US Medal of Honor in Germany - U.S. - Stripes
The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest military award the senator noted selling military medals awarded by Congress is illegal. Federal law authorizes fines of up to $100,000 and a year in jail.
Not quite ready for a celebration yet
Bad state data hides coronavirus threat as Trump pushes reopening - POLITICO
In at least a dozen states, health departments have inflated testing numbers or deflated death tallies by changing criteria for who counts as a coronavirus victim and what counts as a coronavirus test, according to reporting from POLITICO, other news outlets and the states' own admissions.
It might not be easy for a long, long time
Coronavirus antibody tests might be wrong half the time: CDC - New York Daily News
They could also be right half the time, if you're more of a glass-half-full person. But whichever way you look at it, the CDC says that they should not be a factor in determining policies around reopening.
How out of touch with reality can New Yorkers be?
Chicago releases plan for reopening restaurants after coronavirus
New York is getting lapped on restaurant reopenings by a city that can't even do pizza right.
5.27.2020
Just to prove it wasn't totally perfect…
Otherwise it, Today, was grand: Sunny, warm (finally!), and gloriously black-and-white.
Wait, what?
Pablo Escobar's brother sues Apple for $2.6 billion over a FaceTime bug
In what may be the most unlikely Apple lawsuit since Carl Sagan sued Apple for calling him a "butt-head"…
Please see: WTF?
Only 49% of Americans say they would get a coronavirus vaccine if it became available to the public, new poll finds - masslive.com
Yeah!
Will my bones finally thaw?
High temperatures to hit 90 degrees in parts of Massachusetts Wednesday for hottest day so far this year - masslive.com
5.26.2020
The (nearly) 100,000
OK, it's not quite 100,000 exactly yet; also the numbers are plenty elastic because some people aren't getting counted, and maybe a few have been counted in error. Still, even allowing a substantial margin of error one way or another, the story these numbers tell is one to be ashamed of.
The U.S. death toll on Monday [that would be yesterday] afternoon stood at more than 97,000. Worldwide, the death toll was about 345,000; the United States, with less than 5 percent of the global population, accounts for nearly a third of all deaths.
This is a failure of the government and the medical establishment, both of which we need to fix. Soon.
Definitely worth a listen
Season finale: Information warfare and how to avoid being manipulated - Military Matters - Stripes
Here's a podcast from the military newspaper, Stars and Stripes, about disinformation campaigns now endemic on social media services; the most accessible discussion of this subject I've run across, available on all the popular podcast platforms.
5.25.2020
Memorial Day, 2020
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
— Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863
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