Long day. Nice dinner. Good wine. A little Yankees playoff action. You know what? Life is good. Okay, so the Yankees lost. A little scotch to kill the pain. Life is still good. And you know what? Once we get through this pandemic, the race riots, the wildfires, the election[…] Read On
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Trump v. Coronavirus : My Money’s on Trump
Trump gets coronavirus a month before the election. He will have to quarantine for at least two weeks. Meaning no campaigning. The left must feel vindicated in so many ways. We all know what happens next. Cue the mask nazi Twitter trolls and #nevertrump cable told-you-sos. Instant Karma to the[…] Read On
Lies, Dams Lies, Tweets and CDC Data
A recent CDC report says that just 6% of Covid-19 deaths had no additional listed causes or comorbidities. As you might expect, Twitter lit up like the Bay Area lightning storm that started all those wildfires: CDC: 94% COVID-19 mortalities had comorbidities such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes or dementia. Only[…] Read On
Postcard From the California Wildfire Zone
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the wildfires raging across California since that bizarre lightning storm ignited tens of thousands of acres of dry kindling that the Sierra Club’s lawyers blocked anyone from clearing for decades. As a result, the Tobaks have magically morphed into a family of meandering nomads[…] Read On
Best Haircut Ever
I’m inspired. Today, I got a haircut. It never felt so good. Never mind how pathetic that sounds. It’s something a lot of us are feeling lately. Never mind that my haircut had to take place out in the parking lot and the business owner and all her stylists can’t[…] Read On
The Forgotten Hong Kong Flu Pandemic of 1968
There are remarkable similarities between the Hong Kong Flu outbreak of 1968 and today’s Covid-19 pandemic, but almost nobody talks about them. Why? Things are very different today than they were back then. Things that have nothing to do with science. The National Review’s John Fund says, “ubiquitous media coverage,[…] Read On
Covid-19 Has Mutated — Just What We Needed
It looks like the world’s favorite virus has mutated and become more infectious, so say virologists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Scripps Research in Florida. As if it wasn’t infectious enough already. Just what we needed. In case you’re wondering how this mutations stuff works, it goes like this:[…] Read On