Friday, August 14, 2020
Ambrosia
Last year, through the sin of sloth, I didn't grow any tomatoes. I have to grow them in raised beds or half barrels because of rabbit infestation, but that has never been a real problem, so I blame myself for last year's dearth of fresh, homegrown tomatoes. But this year I have two giant plants with about 30 green tomatoes and several just turning red.
Pepperidge Farm, white (privilege achievement), thin sliced bread, toasted; mayonnaise (goes perfectly with the white achievement bread); lots of fresh ground pepper and Kosher or Sea salt (perhaps a leaf of home grown basil); sliced home grown tomato -- and you have one of the top ten dishes of all time. Food of the Gods (the Nectar, drink, of the Gods is Prosecco with 20% St. Germain, just so you know).
Even in 2020, a year that will live in infamy, life is good.
This is an Interesting Development
As soon as I heard that former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was going to plead guilty to falsifying evidence, I immediately thought that he was doing so as part of a bargain that included little or no jail time in return for truthful cooperation regarding the rest of the "coup" conspirators. That seems to be true, probably.
Here is what Ace and actual journalist Catherine Herridge have to say on the matter.
Who wants to bet against my prediction that these smug assholes involved in many very serious political crimes against the President of the United States aren't already planning to turn on each other in an effort to save their own cowardly and worthless skins?
UPDATE: John Hinderaker of Powerline blog is a little bit defeatist in his well worth reading comments on this development here. His comparison of the Democrat party to the mafia is funny but, alas, probably true. He lays out the facts, which I ignored in my enthusiasm, that the current prosecutors of Mr. Clinesmith cannot offer him enough of a deal to make him roll on others, who were probably little fish anyway. If he respects the Omerta, the Democrats will take care of him when he comes out of however many weeks he will be in prison, and he knows this.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Sometimes I Laugh
I used to read both conservative and liberal articles at about an 80/20 ratio, four times more conservative than liberal. But over time, I have noticed that it is hard for me to maintain even a 98/2 ratio. I know this is not good; it's like moving into a bubble of thought from like minded individuals, rather than hearing other views which challenge mine. But it was the ever rising stupidity quotient in lefty articles that is primarily the cause of my abandonment of lefty articles. There is no challenge for me to react to when the article is written by someone without actual knowledge of history or science -- by a moron, in other words.
But, I have begun to try to read more articles on the left and I have discovered something of value. I laugh at them when they are particularly stupid, where I used to just growl in annoyance. Here is a sentence from a particularly moronic article about how Joe Biden should react to President Trump in order to beat him in November (yeah, good luck with that).
Imagine it is October. Americans have forgotten about Trump’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is subsiding as vaccines come to market or mask wearing and social distancing take hold and finally work.
Yeah, the mask wearing and staying 6 feet away from other people, which has not actually slowed the transmission of the slightly more deadly new flu, will certainly work if we just stick with it long enough.
Surgical masks came into existence, starting in the late 1800s, to stop bacteria, the smallest of which are about 80 microns across, from escaping the mouth or nose of the surgeon operating on a patient and landing in the incision and causing an infection. Obviously, you can't wear a mask, that stops any air from reaching your nose and mouth, for long before you are passing out from hypoxia. So, the weave of the masks creates holes in the mask, which, in the best masks, measure about 10 microns across. These surgical masks can indeed stop most harmful bacteria. But viruses are smaller. Covid 19 is less than one micron across. There is no reason to think these masks stop the spread of the virus.
Sometimes the makers of the masks will be honest about their product.
Labels: Mask Lore
