VACCINE ALTERNATIVES: AstraZeneca seeks FDA emergency approval for antibody COVID-19 drug. “When it announced the results of its late-stage trial on Aug. 20, AstraZeneca explained the drug, which is delivered by intramuscular injection, could provided up to 12 months’ protection from the virus.”
Archive for 2021
October 6, 2021
A LOOK AT ANTIQUE MILITARY ARMS.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF “NICE” AND “LET’S GO BRANDON!” 69 Percent of Hispanics Disapprove of Biden’s Handling of Immigration.
GERMANY LOVES TO PARTY LIKE IT’S 1939: Germans show off their yellow badges to prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19. “As far as we know, these aren’t vaccine passports but just voluntary accessories to prove one’s been vaccinated. But yellow badges? Did the Germans really think this through?”
LET’S GO, BRANDON! Biden Plan Would Sabotage US Economic Competitiveness in One Huge Way, Analysis Finds.
President Biden has heralded his $4.5+ trillion spending proposals and accompanying tax hikes as an investment in “leading the world versus letting it pass us by.” Yet, paradoxically, a new analysis exposes one huge way Biden’s plans would make the US less competitive on the global stage.
Key to financing the spending plans is a proposed increase in the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 26.5 percent. When factoring in state corporate taxes, the US’s average corporate tax rate would reach a whopping 30.9 percent. And according to a new Tax Foundation analysis, this punitive level of business taxation would be the third-highest corporate tax rate among developed countries, outstripped only by Colombia and Portugal.
Joe finds that all very patriotic.
FASTER, PLEASE: How the NRA Helped Normalize Suppressor Use.
WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITHOUT TRUMP? THIS: CNN spent nearly 80% of September under 1 million viewers. “The liberal network saw a 41% drop from September 2020.”
WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Of Course, We Should Blame the Greens for the Energy Crunch.
I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN EVERY DEATH WAS BLAMED ON THE PRESIDENT: Build Back Better? More Americans Have Died of COVID This Year Than in All of 2020.
JON GABRIEL: To Understand Sinema, You Need to Understand Arizona. “Progressive activists from Manhattan to Marin can sign petitions and curse her name. SNL and John Oliver can mock all they want. Kyrsten Sinema knows that alienating national media personalities and party leaders will only help her reelection campaign.”
HMM: SCIENTISTS CREATE MATERIAL MADE ENTIRELY OUT OF ELECTRONS. “For the first time, scientists have managed to create and take images of a Wigner crystal: a bizarre material, made entirely out of electrons, that was first theorized 90 years ago. Scientists managed to arrange the electrons into a honeycomb-like lattice by sandwiching them in an electric field between two atom-thin layers of tungsten compounds, according to research published in the journal Nature last week. The ability to tame them — which scientists accomplished by exploiting the tiniest differences in the atomic structures of the two tungsten layers — marks an incredible experimental achievement that has, until now, eluded the most accomplished labs in physics.”
THE WORST PART? SHE CAVED TO HER WOKE EMPLOYER: Sage Steele Suspended from ESPN for ‘Controversial’ Comments about Mandates, Obama, Female Reporters.
DO WE NEED A FREE MARKET IN LEGAL SERVICES? We need to do something to make it cheaper — too many average people refuse to get a lawyer, even when they really could use one, because of the expense.
BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Mark Rippetoe’s Mean Ol’ Mr. Gravity.
VAX OR DIE, THEY OFFERED: UCHealth Denies Kidney Transplant To Unvaccinated Woman & Donor.
ROCK ME LIKE A HURRICANE: Incredible Drone Video Shows What It’s Like to Be Inside an Actual Hurricane. “The video was shot inside Hurricane Sam on 30 September 2021, by a plucky sailing drone known as Saildrone Explorer SD 1045. The uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) had to battle with 120 mph (193 kph) winds and 50-foot (15-meter) high waves, according to the NOAA.”
“EVERY GREAT CAUSE EVENTUALLY DEGENERATES INTO A RACKET:” Dave Chappelle Calls Out The Hypocrisy Of The #MeToo Movement In His New Standup, The Closer.
More here: Chappelle went after wokies in his new comedy special and it’s hilarious.
HUH: Younger COVID-19 patients more likely to recover smell, taste, study finds. The youngest member of my family to get it, a 21-year-old nephew, has never recovered his sense of smell.