Rioters and the ending of the Lockdown
Scott Adams: Serious question: Did any Republican lose a business to rioters? I began thinking of my answer, but the first tweet-in-response said it for me: I bet some future Republicans did. I’ve been...
View ArticleBMNB QotD: Silence
Michael Tracey: I don’t think it’s accurate that “silence” automatically equals “complicity” or “violence.” Sometimes people are “silent” because they have complicated views about a complicated...
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Signs of our time
Regulars here will know that I love to photo signs and notices. So evocative. So precise for defining a time, a place, a mood, or an official attitude. And never more so than right now: Those are some...
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Lockdown chat with Patrick
On June 2nd, Patrick Crozier and I had another of our recorded conversations, this time about Lockdown. In the course of this, I refer to a photo that I did take, and a photo that I didn’t take. The...
View ArticleHe just walks it off and goes straight into the pub
Here, via David Thompson. As a commenter comments: adrenalin is a wonderful thing. Because actually, as another commenter reports: “Mr Smith suffered two fractures to his shoulder and ribs, as well as...
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On how I may now not resume buying classical music magazines
Every month for as long as I can remember, I’ve been buying paper copies of Gramophone and the BBC Music Magazine, “Music” being how the BBC refers to classical music. All over my home, these magazines...
View ArticleEmmanuel Todd on the earthly rewards of aberrant beliefs
I’ve been reading Emmanuel Todd’s book, Lineages of Modernity. For any sort of review of this book by me, you will have to wait. But meanwhile, I did enjoy this snippet, about why people believe the...
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Transparent plague mask
This actually looks like a pretty good idea: I found it at This Is Wny I’m Broke, which I make a point of checking out from time to time. The thing is, masks are annoying, one of the most annoying...
View ArticleMatt Ridley tells how vaccination became established in England
I have started reading Matt Ridley’s book about How Innovation Works. Here (pages 50-55) is his description of how vaccinating people against smallpox went from being fiercely criticised by the medical...
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Will you SURVIVE THE PLAGUE?
I’ve just been meandering through the photo-archives, trying to find out when was my last totally pre-Covid walkabout. Not even any vaguely threatening headlines, just life as we knew it before … it....
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A bike and a back ache
Today I photoed this guy and his bike, with his permission: But not his face, although he didn’t seem to mind about that. I went to the Pedal Me website, but am still none the wiser about the exact...
View ArticleGetting old but also getting better
About a fortnight ago now, I suddenly started feeling pains in my lower back and stomach. They kind of meandered around, but centred on a spot just above my right buttock. After a few days of this not...
View ArticleA couple of recommendations for understanding The Plague
I am no doubt biased, by my libertarian politics to start with, and by the guesses I have already expressed in (what passes for me as) public. Nevertheless, for whatever it may be worth, I found this...
View ArticleNico Metten describes the “casedemic”
Facebook friend and actual friend Nico Metten, on Facebook, puts the case against “cases”: One very simple thing for everyone to understand. Cases mean nothing. Deaths is what counts. There is no...
View ArticleI just googled “casedemic”
A significant slice of my most recent traffic has been coming to these two postings, both of them involving that word. Casedemic. So, I’m giving the public what it wants and doing another such posting....
View ArticleTom Harwood on the party politics of Covid
Tom Harwood, tweeting in response to a Guido tweet reporting that Starmer will support all government Covid restrictions: On the areas it might be useful to have an opposition, we have no opposition. I...
View ArticleAnother remarkable Trump speech
Here. I don’t agree that Trump is defeating The Virus, as he claims. I think it is fizzling out of its own accord. I therefore think that he overdoes the criticism of China, on this particular score....
View ArticleThe public opinion graphs about The Plague are now crossing
A fortnight or so ago, GodDaughter2 and I discussed The Plague, and what a pain all the measures being taken against it were. Neither she nor any of her friends thought that The Plague itself was any...
View ArticleAt least they seem willing to end Lockdown
From this tweet, concerning a piece behind the Telegrap paywall (thankyou Adriana Lucas) …: It’s rather reminiscent of Medieval physicians, attributing any sign of recovery to the effectiveness of...
View ArticleCompletely asymptotic and no comorbities
Someone wanted their tweet to be thoroughly noticed. I must be one of many thousands of pedants already LOLing at these spelling errors: Our President and First Lady have tested positive for COVID-19,...
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