Sure could. A little one could knock out the entire internet. A bigger one would also take out satellites, the internet, power grids, undersea cables — and data storage. “We could lose all our records, bank information, and critical health information and not have anything to go back to.[...]
Archive for September, 2021
Is Biden overplaying his mandate?
A former adviser to Michael Bloomberg argues, “For most people Joe Biden was not elected last November to get us out of Afghanistan. His election was not a blank check to oversee a dramatic expansion of the federal government. His victory wasn’t even wholly about halting the spread of th[...]
September 19th, 2021 - 12:30 pm § in Law and Courts
The “law and order” mindset
In February 2019, a citizen called Seattle police after seeing a 74-year-old neighbor’s door ajar and “clutter” inside. The police conducted what they usually call a “welfare check,” as follows: 10 officers invaded his home with drawn guns, roughed him up, and handcuffe[...]
September 19th, 2021 - 5:48 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Are Mormons Christians?
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September 19th, 2021 - 12:39 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: HANDS, by Pablo Neruda
THE INFINITE ONE Do you see these hands? They have measured the earth, they have separated minerals and grain, they have made peace and war, they have demolished the distances of all the seas and rivers, nevertheless, when they move over you, little one, grain of wheat, swallow, they can not encompa[...]
Another anti-masker learns the hard way
A teenaged city councilman in Alabama “has tested positive for COVID-19 just months after voting to end a local mask mandate,” The Hill reported on Saturday, September 18, 2021 (read story here). “Hunter Pepper, 19, told local NBC affiliate WAFF that he received two positive COVID-[...]
A stupid vaccine mandate argument
It’s unfair, Chris Talgo of the Heartland Institute says. His complaint? “Biden’s federal vaccine mandate does not apply to Americans on welfare, illegal immigrants, members of Congress, U.S. Postal Service employees and several other groups.” After noting that “Americans w[...]
September 18th, 2021 - 3:15 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Is going crazy over a mask worth it?
A California prison guard is out of jail on $50,000 bail, was put on leave from his job, and faces hate crime charges for — get this — “beating a Wells Fargo branch manager and calling him a racial slur after being asked to wear a mask inside the bank,” Huffington Post report[...]
September 18th, 2021 - 12:11 pm § in News Media
The hard life of opinion writers
Wherein a Guardian journalist carries on, at length, about the sad lot of writers consigned to writing opinions. Hey, it’s a paying job in journalism, and how many writers have that anymore? These days, anyone can write opinions, and lots of people do, mostly for little-read blogs (like this o[...]
Why are Haitians piling up on the Texas border?
Pretty simple, really. “Many of the Haitians currently at the border are believed to have been living in South America after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, but the toll of the pandemic on the region fueled migration to the US southern border,” CNN says (read story here). The Biden adminis[...]