NOT ALL HEROES OF THE LOCKDOWN WEAR CAPES. OR MUCH OF ANYTHING, REALLY:  Strip club in Oregon brings burlesque to coronavirus carry-out.

WHY, IT’S AS IF LIVING ENTAIL TRADE-OFFS! HOW CAN THAT BE? WE’VE BEEN PROMISED WE CAN HAVE IT ALL!  Disinfectant poisonings on the rise in children amid coronavirus.

IT’S TIME TO SAY NO MORE:  Fear is an opportunity for tyranny.

BECAUSE I POSTED THIS ON EASTER AND I THINK IT DESERVES A BETTER SHOWING: FROM JAGI LAMPLIGHTER (THINK HARRY POTTER BUT FOR GIRLS):  The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering.

Rachel Griffin Knows a Secret Everyone Else Has Forgotten…

…She has discovered she has an older sister named Amber, who was stolen-away as a baby. Nobody but Rachel remembers her—not even their parents. Rachel is determined to find Amber and restore her to the family. But how?

She doubts it will be as easy as overhearing the name Rumpelstiltskin.

Meanwhile, Rachel has bigger problems. Wild fey have invaded the campus. If they so much as bewitch even one more student, Roanoke Academy will be forced to close its doors. Rachel and her friends must solve this menace before the academy cancels more classes or, worse, the Year of the Dragon Ball!

But she has hope—if she can keep the school open—because, as Rachel’s late grandmother told her, Masquerade balls are a time of wonder… when anything is possible.

BETTER THAN BY COLOR, I GUESS:  Overzealous British library cleaner rearranges books by size.

THERE ARE INDEED STILL AMERICANS:  Houston Police Push Back Against Mandatory Mask Ordinance.

Also, as a public service, a note to all the panicky people out there: that mask doesn’t protect you, unless it’s rated N-95.  Yes, I know, but people in Japan wear masks and–  Sure. My friends who live there tell me Japanese wear masks when they might sneeze/cough in a public place. Those masks protect other people FROM you.  However, if you’re not sick or suffering from allergies, and particularly if you see a person without a mask, they’re not trying to kill you. Chances of their being sick aren’t even that high. JUST chill. This is health theater.

Another PSA: Rubber gloves are actually less sanitary than your hands — which you at least wash — unless you change them between places, etc. Just running around with the same gloves all day? Stupid AND unsanitary.

IT’S TIME. COME OUT IF YOU WANT TO LIVE:  Businesses Without Options Defy Closing Orders.

YEAH, THAT:  Lockdown is Destroying Food Supply Chain.

I FIGURE WE CAN TRACK HOW CONFIDENT THE DEMS ARE IN VOTE BY FRAUD MAIL BY THE RIDICULOUS STUFF THEY IMPOSE ON US. SOME GOVERNORS THINK THEY’RE IN FOR LIFE:  Stealing the Election in Plain Sight.

THEY WERE ALWAYS DUMB:  Virus Strikes Media Dumb.

YES, THERE ARE STILL AMERICANS:  Dark Sarcasm In the Classroom.

I THOUGHT HE HAD BEEN BANNED AS A RACIST, IMPERIALIST, CIGAR SMOKER?  These words from Winston Churchill are giving hope during the pandemic.  (And do they also offer hope for the wasteland the reaction to the pandemic is creating?)

INDEED:  Post Hoc vs. Propter Hoc.

NO, ALL CULTURES ARE NOT THE SAME:  Cats turned into paste, sold as coronavirus remedy in Vietnam.

WELL, IT’S THE ONLY VIRUS IN HISTORY TO CAUSE US TO DAMAGE OURSELVES MORE THAN ANY ENEMY IN ANY WAR HAS MANAGED:  How unique is COVID-19?

THE NERVE OF THE MAN, SAYING NURSES, FRONTLINE WORKERS AND PEOPLE NOBODY’S EVER HEARD OF DESERVE RESPECT; DOESN’T HE UNDERSTAND THE PAIN ARTISTS EXPERIENCE? (AND YES, THAT IS SARCASM):  Ricky Gervais slams celebs who lecture ‘normal nobodies’ about coronavirus.

AS PANDEMICS GO, THIS ONE IS A BUST, ALTHOUGH A PROPER RANKING WOULD EXPRESS THE NUMBERS AS PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION, I WHICH CASE THE PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN MOVES SIGNIFICANTLY UP THE RANKING: History’s 5 deadliest pandemics and epidemics.

JUST IN CASE YOU WONDER WHY FREEZERS AND DRIED FOOD ARE SOLD OUT:  In their panic, the idiots in our government are creating a famine.

I’m hearing these stories from all over. It’s time to stop this panic or people will actually die. In the millions. Perhaps even in the US.

FROM PAM UPHOFF: War Party.

Ice is a powerful magician and trained warrior. His day job, however, is political analyst, and it is once again election year.

Hopefully with fewer explosions and snipers than the last one, but in the Empire of the One, what sounds like a boring desk job is anything but.

Especially when al old flame gets pissed enough to jump into the presidential race.

Between assassins on the loose, duels to the death, and a sense of something nasty coming his way, Ice is going to be busy.

OR ANY MORE LOCKDOWNS. ALSO, BEE, YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO REPORT THE NEWS. LOOK UP SATIRE IN DICTIONARY:  Majority Of Americans Would Rather Risk COVID Death Than Endure Any More Skype Lectures From Celebrities.

WELL, THEN!  New Evidence Supporting Credibility of Tara Reade’s Allegation Against Joe Biden Emerges.

BUT BECAUSE OF VOTE-BY-FRAUD-MAIL COLORADO ISN’T:  Oklahoma governor announces businesses to reopen Friday.

I DON’T REMEMBER SIGNING UP FOR LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES:  The Local is National, and Everything’s Political.

NO, NOR SHOULD THEY:  If Half the Country’s COVID Deaths Were in Montana, Would New York Shut Down?

I’LL POINT OUT WE TRIED TO GO TO THE PROTEST IN DENVER (LATE, BECAUSE IT’S US).  WE SAW PLENTY OF POLICE BARRICADES BLOCKING THE WAY (AND PEOPLE YOUNGER THAN US PARKING AND WALKING) BUT NOT A SINGLE HEALTH WORKER:  “Fake news”, caught in the act.