I am contemptuous of the stupidity of anti-vaxxers; anyone who studies the merest whiff of epidemiology and virology is going to understand that vaccines are a really good thing. All you have to do is ask anyone you know who has suffered from smallpox. Oh, you don’t know anyone who has had smallpox? End of discussion.
From the “nobody should be surprised but everyone should be shocked” department, Israel has apparently decided that it’s going to keep the Golan heights.
This scared the shit out of me. And, worse, I subsequently figured out a better way to do what I was trying to do, anyway.
The game of tax avoidance is one of the corrupt scandals of the US’ ridiculous regime.
The Father of the Pakistani h-bomb has died, apparently from long-term complications from COVID-19.
Anna sent me this:
Fascists in the US government are trying to legislate against teaching truths such as: The US is systemically racist.
This is interesting, and I’m not sure what it means.
What is it about wealth that makes people who were successful at one thing decide that they’re actually good at everything?
Congress ought to be holding hearings to investigate the FBI’s non-competence as it sat around with its thumb up its butt while a nearly successful coup brewed. Remember, the FBI is the organization that is responsible for domestic counter-terrorism – the organization that notoriously spends a great deal of time creating terrorist plots so they can arrest the people who fall into their snare – their job is to do things like, well, stopping coups. The US people and government have placed an inordinate amount of trust (and money) in the FBI and we ought to be investigating the monumental incompetence of the agency.