Archive for 2020
June 13, 2020
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Parts of Beijing locked down due to fresh virus cluster. “Dozens of people tested positive for the coronavirus in Beijing as parts of the city were locked down Saturday after the emergence of a new cluster linked to a wholesale food market. . . . AFP reporters saw hundreds of police officers, many wearing masks and gloves, and dozens of paramilitary police deployed at the two markets, with no one allowed to leave Xinfadi.”
Reportedly, the market “provides much of the capital’s food supply.” That must be a gigantic market.
I BLAME SOCIAL MEDIA: Young Adults Having Less Sex. “In 2018, 31 percent of men and 19 percent of women between ages 18 and 24 reported no sexual activity in the previous year, researchers said. In 2001, 19 percent of men and 15 percent of women in the same age group had no sexual activity during the previous year. In addition to the findings on young adults, the number of men 25 to 34 years old who reported sexual inactivity in the past year doubled to 14 percent in 2018 from 7 percent in 2000, researchers said. The percentage of women who reported sexual inactivity in this age group also rose — to 13 percent from 7 percent over the same period.”
For older adults the numbers are unchanged. No wonder millennials are so kooky and grumpy. They’re not getting enough.
MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING AUTONOMOUS ZONE. ‘So it’s a socialist Renaissance fair:’ Julio Rosas finds CHAZ medic dressed in Medieval armor.
When does Sheldon appear at the CHAZ wearing Spock ears and carrying a tricorder?
OHIO IS CONSIDERING A “STAND YOUR GROUND” LAW: I am pretty sure this Commissioner Statement will clear up some of the misconceptions that Buckeye State legislators are hearing.
WELL, THIS IS PROMISING: Most asymptomatic COVID-19 cases stay that way, small study says. “Are many of these ‘asymptomatic’ carriers simply in a stage of infection that later moves on to symptomatic COVID-19? No, suggests a small, new study of cruise ship passengers and crew.”
JUST DON’T MENTION THE CULTURE WAR: Fawlty Towers’ “The Germans” episode to be reinstated by UKTV.
Oceania has never been at war with Basil Fawlty.
Earlier: John Cleese Slams Removal of Fawlty Towers Episode From Streaming Site.
And from Steve: Cancel Culture Comes for John Cleese and ‘Fawlty Towers.’
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BUT WHO WILL PROTECT YOKO’S AIR-CONDITIONED FUR COAT STORAGE ROOM IN THE DAKOTA? Welcome To Reality As A Beatles Song: Imagine A World Without Police.
HANNAH COX: Why I regret my teenage crush on Elliot Stabler. She’s right that for millions of viewers, these TV portrayals are as close as they’ll ever come to the justice system.
But what’s wrong with being “hypermasculine?”
BORIS JOHNSON SAYS ATTACKING STATUES IS ‘LYING ABOUT OUR HISTORY.’
As they say on Airstrip One, “Who Controls the Past Controls the Future.”
FUNNY HOW THOSE ERRORS ARE ALWAYS AIMED AT ONE SIDE OF THE AISLE: Twitter Reinstates Zerohedge After Admitting It Made An “Error.”
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON On Name Changing and Statue Toppling:
General David Petraeus wrote an impassioned article in the Atlantic this week about the need to change the names of military bases that for over a century have been named after Confederate generals and to recalibrate iconic remembrances such as statues commemorating Robert E. Lee at West Point — points of reference he reminds us that have been central in his own experience and career.
His relevant points were twofold and ostensibly rational: Commanders such as Bragg and Benning (Petraeus proposes the renaming of other eponymous bases as well) were not especially effective commanders worthy of such majestic base commemoration. In some cases, as Petraeus notes, they were not even highly regarded by their peers. No one, certainly, would wish to defend the worldview of a Braxton Bragg. And, as Petraeus put it, as “traitors” they fought for an ignoble cause that perpetuated slavery. (Of course, the logic of renaming should then apply to the northern California community of Fort Bragg, also named after the unattractive Braxton Bragg — an idea to which some in the Democratic California legislature failed to win over the town’s mayor in 2015).
Read the whole thing.
COMING SOON, A Real Estate Tax Revenue Death Spiral?
Who would have thought that Minneapolis might become the next Detroit? Well, some of the people who are making it happen, maybe.
IN MY EXPERIENCE, WHICH IS EXTENSIVE, GOOD ERGONOMICS MATTERS, BUT CHANGING YOUR POSITION FREQUENTLY MATTERS MORE. Working from home can ravage your spine, but good posture can help fix it.
TO BE HONEST, THIS DOES KIND OF MAKE SENSE: Alternate reading of Mayan calendar suggests end of the world is next week.
DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY: Seattle’s CHAZ Is Everything Its ‘Woke’ Organizers Said They Were Against.