Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Bark louder, little dog.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

You cannot shame the shameless.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Giving up is unforgivable.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

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COVID-19 Update (International / Informational Edition) – Saturday/Sunday, March 7/8

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  1. 1.

    opiejeanne

    That death total in Iran is staggering when compared to the known number of infected persons.

  2. 2.

    YY_Sima Qian

    I have been out of action the past three days due to sudden bleeding in digestive tract, probably in the stomach. Had to visit the ER and now preparing for hospital stay of at least several more days.

    I am doing better now, with internal bleeding seemingly stopped.

    Needless to say, now is a rather uncomfortable time to be visiting a hospital in Wuhan, but the experience has been enlightening and largely reassuring. Will share more later.

    Thanks for the thoughts of concern!

  5. 5.

    Geminid

    I read an article in the NYT by two expat Iranian doctors. They attributed the high incidence of Covid-19 cases among government officials to: 1) frequent travel by politicians from Teheran to Qom, which is a political as well as religious center, and 2) the custom of men in public forums greeting each other by kissing each other’s cheeks. There is an aspect of dominance/subservience to this custom, like paying homage. The more powerful the politician, the more kisses. Two members of parliament have died so far, and other officials as well.

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    Laura Too

    @YY_Sima Qian: Thinking good thought for you and looking forward to hearing of your experiences when you are able. For now focus on healing and know a lot of us here care about you very much!

  11. 11.

    ziggy

    @opiejeanne: I wouldn’t believe the official numbers from Iran at all (or many other countries for that matter).

    For instance, this video and twitter:

    metro.co.uk/2020/03/04/bodies-lined-iranian-morgue-lead-accusations-coronavirus-cover-12349854/

    twitter.com/ZaidSabah/status/1236673830590038016

    There’s another video I saw on twitter, inside a hospital, with a huge crowd clamoring for help. But I can’t find it this morning. Very disturbing.

    Finding a lot of videos, many too sad to even link to. This is awful.

  12. 12.

    Bill Arnold

    This is *not* to endorse any of the bullshit ‘deliberate virus’ theories. But biosafety accidents happen in labs worldwide, and some guy not washing his hands thoroughly enough and then getting a bite to eat after working in the lab is a perfectly plausible scenario.

    Re this, he’s succumbing to conceptual biases IMO. It is considerably more likely that say 5 people took home infected animals (bats or somethings infected by bats), prepared them, ate them, and one or more of them or their close contacts became infected during the process. I.e. the priors I’m using suggest that the root of this is (hopefully was) practices involving eating of many species of non-livestock animals.
    It is unfortunate that nationalism will be getting in the way of release of the results of any proper forensics-based attribution though. (Asshole SOS M. Pompeo didn’t help matters.)

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