BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE! Nationwide analysis suggests masks increased the spread of COVID-19.
Archive for 2020
December 25, 2020
December 24, 2020
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Elitist Hypocrisy is Killing Small Businesses.
IT’S ALL HOW YOU LOOK AT IT: Three different left-leaning media outlets reporting on the same year-end ICE report show that the Washington Post beats the competition at coming up with dramatic sounding but ultimately misleading headlines.
ICE Arrests and Deportations Drop Sharply in 2020, Largely Due to the Pandemic—CBS News.
US Immigration Arrests Down 27% in 2020—A Trend Activists Hope Biden Will Continue—Reuters.
Deportations of Migrant Families Spiked in 2020—Washington Post.
The “spike” that the Washington Post points to is actually good news no matter what one’s views on immigration law enforcement: ICE has entered into an agreement with Central American countries that allows it to verify quickly where illegal entrants are from, thus allowing for quick repatriation without the need for an extensive stay at an immigration detention center. One has to read well into the article before one learns that deportations are way down.
The original headline for Washington Post might have been something like “ICE Deportation Decline,” since that is what’s on the URL, but the “spike” headline is what’s there now.
OPEN THREAD: Merry Christmas Eve.
A TRULY JOYOUS RENDITION OF IN EXCELSIS DEO: A beautiful and stirring performance by more than 1,000 participants. It was first performed in 2014 and is well-worth repeating in 2020:
SPACE: Space acquisition reform awaits Biden’s Pentagon team. Well, good luck.
VICTORY IN BRITAIN: Brexiteers, we did it! “We have achieved something that no other member state of the European Union has ever managed to do: that is, we didn’t only express our democratic opposition to the EU oligarchy – many member states have done that – but we also managed to defend that democratic opposition from the inevitable elitist onslaught against it. All other European peoples who have voted against EU constitutions or treaties or austerity packages – the French, the Dutch, the Irish, the Greeks – have eventually been defeated. They were either just ignored or forced to vote again until they gave the ‘right’ answer. Britain is the first nation in the history of this anti-democratic, anti-working-class, neoliberal oligarchy to resolutely see its democratic wishes through to the end.”
Related: Farage on the Deal: “The War is Over.”
As the establishment hissy-fits over Brexit and over the 2016 election illustrate, our political/journalistic/academic class fundamentally doesn’t believe that it should have to accept an electoral defeat.
And even in the United States, where they’ve supposedly won, they don’t seem happy:
IT’S NOT SCIENCE JUST BECAUSE SCIENTISTS SAY IT IS, AND IT’S ESPECIALLY NOT SCIENCE JUST BECAUSE JOURNALISTS AND POLITICIANS SAY IT IS: 2020 Hindsight – Bruce Pardy: Our year of bowing down to ‘The Science’.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Holiday Classic Takes On New Meaning As Jimmy Stewart’s Post-War Struggles Bleed Into Film.
And for Mirror Universe version of the same story, It’s a Wonderful Fountainhead, too.
YEP. THE PRESS IS JUST GASLIGHTING US ON THIS STUFF. Majority of Americans hate socialism, reject AOC.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Charles Mingus’s Secret Eggnog Recipe Will Knock You on Your Ass.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Follow the Science.”
The New Hotness? Fauci says he’s been intentionally moving goal posts on herd immunity estimates.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Public trust is the public health community’s most vital asset. Why do they seem so eager to squander it?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Roaring 2020s will be post-Covid vaccine ‘sex-fest’ and ‘era of vice and indulgence.’
The Gray Lady is anxious to get a jump on the fun:
KURT SCHLICHTER: Warrior Warriors, Not Social Justice Warriors.
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: A judge in Virginia ruled that a black defendant wouldn’t have a fair trial unless all portraits of white judges are removed from the courtroom.
Has Gov. Northam been consulted on this decision?
GRAY LADY PHONING IT IN DURING THE HOLIDAYS BY AIRING BORING RERUNS: “As we all know, everything is raaaacist today. Even, the New York Times tells us, tiki bars.”
Iowahawk, an aficionado of these sorts of establishments, notes that he’s seen this movie before:
IT’S A SHAME HE HAD SO LITTLE MATERIAL TO WORK WITH THIS YEAR: Dave Barry’s Year in Review: 2020 was a year of nonstop awfulness.
MOST PEOPLE DO DISLIKE BEING SHOT WITH BULLETS OF ANY CALIBER: Using .22 Magnum for Self-Defense.