War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
As COVID-19 surges across California, the technical aspects of a vaccine roll-out are being pondered not only in logistics, but who will be getting the first doses, and beyond health-care workers and the elderly, there’s seemingly an endless line of hopefuls. In order to make a choice starting today, a pair of advisory committees —…
Sunny and chilly this mid-day Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, and once again some shitty virus numbers nationwide as of this morning — 17,278,276 COVID-19 cases, with now 313,467 deaths. And as Dr. Anthony Fauci warned last month, the holiday period coming up could bring on “a surge upon a surge” of COVID cases,…
Best short-spicy summary yet of the idiotic garbage the T-Rump’s legal team has splatered across the political landscape on election stealing/fraud came this morning via Paul Campos at LG&M in explaining the next step come Jan. 6 in the losing/lost battle for the White House: If even one senator joins the objecting House Republicans however,…
Politics of health nowadays is deadly. Here on this Tuesday evening, the country is being ground into mush by a pandemic fueled in part by a huge faction of Americans sprouting bullshit from the Republican bullhorn, twisting facts into lies and killing 300,000-plus people. The huge problem with getting a handle on COVID-19 is politics…
Yesterday seemed special as politics and the coronavirus overlapped each other with Joe Biden finally nabbing the Electoral college president-elect title (and this morning both MoscowMitch and his benefactor, Vlad Putin, belateldy proclaimed as such), and America’s first COVID-19 vaccine rolled out — the Pfizer/BioNTech shot was first administered to New York health-care worker, Sandra…
A couple of big stories this Monday afternoon, neither a big surprise, but one kind of sudden — the Electoral college voted correctly with Joe Biden once again proclaimed President-Elect (how many times now?), and in a kind of aftershock, US AG Bill Barr resigned, an action of “a mystery wrapped inside a riddle.” First,…
As we await the hopefully forgone conclusions of the Electoral college vote today, there’s a related side-note with an awesome interview with the way-great Cher this morning at the Guardian — I’ve had an incredible crush on her since 1965 as a sophomore in high school. She’s ‘only’ two years older than I, so there…
As if there wasn’t enough shit on our plates, now the Russkies: And it was the Russians — via Reuters, updated this evening: Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the U.S. Treasury Department and an agency that decides internet and telecommunications policy, according to people familiar with…
California is soaring with COVID-19 cases and death, and now the state’s Central Valley (where I reside) is quickly going to shitsville with ICU-bed capacity dropping like a rock (h/t BJ): We’re in a world of hurt — from the LA Times this morning: The last time Dr. Eyad Almasri had a day off was…
America is currently located at a twisted crossroads where our 250-year-old experiment in democracy has come to a threshhold of change, one way or another the future is storm-cloudy. The T-Rump and a hige chunk of Americans seem to think we can veer off into the weeds and be fine — the bad shit is…
