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Some Election Day Humor

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Almost Too Spot On

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Reminder

HT The View from Lady Lake

So Very True

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Potential Rail Strike Threatens US Economy Ahead of Midterms

Oh just great.

Make sure you load up on toilet paper, bottled water, and canned soup just in case. (Only half-joking.)

Revenge of the COVID Moms

Article describes the anger many moms feel toward the officials, elected or otherwise, who abandoned their responsibilities to the children they were supposed to be teaching (and protecting). What will be the actual political fallout be from these angry moms? Hard to say. 

I would say that one effect the forced distance learning and the public stances of the teachers unions will be more States giving education funds to parents instead of the schools. Many States have already done so and many more will follow. Those States who don't, because of outsized political pull of the teachers unions, will, I predict, show consistently lower test results than the States who allow some form of school choice. 

The Needle and the Damage Done

"Masks have never worked. Testing has always been problematic. Kids were never high-risk. The past has never been altered. Welcome to the COVID consensus, circa midterms 2022."

"Now that the damage has been done, the old arbiters of truth and morality will not get back the trust or credibility they've squandered."

Read the whole thing! It has to be said that over the past 2-years some of the best journalism has come from The Tablet. Well done!

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

So there was a COVID outbreak on Martha's Vineyard with about 63 people testing positive just after Obama's maskless birthday bash but very little has been made of that fact in the media. Remember last year when 500,000 maskless people gathered in Sturgis for Bike Week and the media had an orgy calling it a super spreader event even though there were just 70 positive COVID cases in the aftermath? Gross hypocrisy anyone?... The Golf Channel is an older man's porn for many (except with less shame)...  The withdrawal from Afghanistan literally happened over Donald Rumsfeld's dead body. Meanwhile Dick Cheney had lots to say about Trump being mean to his daughter but oddly quiet over Joe Biden's FUBAR handling of Afghanistan. Cheney is a pimp... Petrified Lizards would be a good name for a band... It will be interesting to see how much, if any, campaigning President Biden does for candidates in the 2022 elections. My guess is very, very little. Candidates will probably tell VP Harris point blank to stay away... Andrew Luck retired just before the 2019 NFL season and we haven't heard anything from him since. My guess is that he's happy in retirement...