It’s almost as if Karl Rove’s entire ‘reality-based community*’ spiel was really taken to heart by conservatives, who now act as if they can bend nature to their will. Herman Cain and Jared Kushner both acted as if the virus would behave according to their expectations, with unsurprising results.

Yet, you’re here to prove I am right.

Thanks.

If he or any other journalist actually wants to dig deep beyond just a simple google search, they should dig into who paid for this group of quacks to organize and pull of a stunt. They didn’t just magically assemble themselves. Someone had to turn on the Grifter Bat Signal.

A niche industry, and probably an old one. I mean, parks and museums often undergo renovation, and you can’t just get Bud and Lefty to move ‘em with a come-along.

Yeah, this is a terrible take. Somehow this Libertarian wet dream has made itself appear to be a serious idea. If the market was left to itself, there would never, under any circumstances, be affordable housing. That’s why “the projects” have always been administered by the government. There’s no profit in building…

This story was so fucking well written and well reported. Really one of the best pieces of journalism I’ve read in a while and perhaps one of the best illustrations of what the pandemics is doing to the day to day lives of Americans — and the wide gulf between the impact on quality of life.

Yeah, just mix all that together, add two cups of salt and a quarter cup of anticaking agent and you’re there.

The internet was a mistake. 

How strong is the teachers' union in the US, because now seems like the time for a strike. 

Plus, even though children don’t face as high a risk, Covid-19 can still be debilitating or deadly for them, too.  Being too cavalier about reopening schools is asking for sorrow.

it’s the FuckTrump and Cruella DeVos way to attempt herd immunity. It will FAIL and people will suffer and some will die. School facility closures are up to the states and school districts but the Feds do pump in a lot of cash, so they have leverage. Schools count students per day in classrooms to get funding and the…

“I don’t know, I like _____, I just feel like he’s somebody I could have a beer with” is code for “I don’t like it when people are clearly smarter than me.”

And the local GOP as well.

You have the right to do whatever you are told to do or be homeless.

Immediately after World War II, when we helped rebuild Europe and established NATO and the UN to prevent another giant clusterfuck in Europe. Also, when the Soviet Union fell in no small part thanks to the triumph of American soft power. That’s the short and simple answer, anyway.

This is such a bad moment for human rights and China knows it. With everybody turned inward from Covid-19 and nationalism either insurgent or ascendant in the rest of the world, there’s really nobody to stop them ending “one country two systems,” waging a campaign of genocide against the Uighurs, and projecting their…

Flow chart is flawed because its based on personal risk. It says “you or the people you are in contact with” but people won’t interpret that beyond their household. So it doesn’t cover this part:

I cannot wait for all the statues of that bitch to come down.

It starts with the example set by the Boomers and perpetuates from there. I once saw an interview with Jay Leno where he was asked if his obsession with old cars was bad for the planet. His response was “I have faith in human ingenuity to come up with a device or some technology to solve the climate change problem.”…