Really interesting study about COVID-19 out of Columbia University. This study based their model on actual data at the county level (rather than state or even country), which is important because virus transmission is always local, and used 7-day averages, which is important to avoid data noise. The result that is getting all the headlines […]
We often hear about Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, who set his son up in the Brooklyn slumlord business. However, we never hear anything about Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. But just watching her son Donald try (and fail miserably) to send out Mother’s Day wishes this year, you gotta wonder what the hell? […]
This short video was created by The Atlantic. Watch it. They go on to say: One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies. One knows that he disdains facts; that he does not read briefing papers; that he has no organizational […]
Here’s an interesting demographic group: the people who hate all the presidential candidates, but still end up voting for one of them. For whom do they vote? Politico has an interesting article about this. Who are these people? According to one pollster, “There are a number of people who hate politics and politicians, and they […]
This is oh-so-wrong, but hilarious. Alcohol sales surged after the pandemic started. By late March, they were up 55% compared to sales 12 months earlier. On the other hand, alcohol sales were already increasing before COVID-19 arrived. Even then, the US was drinking more alcohol than before prohibition. The exception to this? Champagne sales, as […]
A post in Axios provides some evidence that the Republican approach to fighting the coronavirus is not working like they said it would. And their new push to reopen businesses and recreation is likely to backfire. So far, the states that have suffered the most due to COVID-19 are states with Democratic governors. This was […]
The art museum in Portland Oregon is encouraging people to recreate famous art at home, using materials at hand. Here are a couple of examples people have come up with so far:
John Krasinksi (from The Office) decides that it is time for Some Good News (SGN). I’ll give you two episodes, the first one I watched, which seems to be the most popular one… … and the first one they put together … And episode 2 is sweet, especially if you are a Hamilton fan.
The ACLU has a petition to get Congress to pass a law requiring all states to allow vote-by-mail, like Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and other states already do. After you sign it, they will automatically send a message to your congressperson and senators. This is to avoid the disaster that just happened in Wisconsin, with people […]
According to the site Worldometers, the US has now passed 1 million cases of Coronavirus. They also report that 195,787 cases are closed (either because the patient recovered, or died), which means that there are still 814,569 active cases. Of course, when you go to the site, those numbers will have changed. For the worse. […]
Donald Trump claimed that he has total authority, but backed down in less than 24 hours, and pretended to “allow” the governors to do whatever they want. But when he said “I take no responsibility” for the failures of the government response to the coronavirus pandemic, I think he was actually telling the truth. Is […]
11. Make more music over Zoom. I’m beginning to believe that the official music of the coronavirus pandemic is Funk. Most of you don’t know this, but I’m also an amateur musician (I play bass). Lately (like many musicians) I too have been participating in Zoom calls to make music. It really helps to play […]
Donald Trump wants you to think that the small anti-quarantine protests that took place this weekend in various state capitols were spontaneous grassroots events, but they were anything but. First of all, Trump’s tweets in support of these protests were all aimed at states with Democratic governors, and ignored Republican governors who also issued stay-at-home […]
Is it my imagination, or was Barack Obama starting to channel Keegan-Michael Key as Obama’s Anger Translator near the end of this video? I’m proud to endorse my friend @JoeBiden for President of the United States. Let's go: https://t.co/maHVGRozkX — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 14, 2020
7. Enjoy satire about the coronavirus. Here’s a diagram of deaths by disaster, done in the style of Andy Borowitz: In an interview on Fox News yesterday, Donald Trump said that he is going to make a decision on whether to recommend allowing normal working life to resume during the coronavirus pandemic “based on a […]
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