We are now in the midst of a panic-demic. I’m still playing with the hyphen/not-hyphen, but I’ve settled on my new term. Whatever the actual loss of life from acute COVID-19 infection is, the increase in stress-related deaths, outright suicides, and damage to the economy will far outweigh it.

I’m gonna give my local school district credit for doing their best to help kids despite the moronic closing of schools.

And people here say the current crop of college students don’t have the right attitude.

I give the current Pope a lot of shit, but this is what a figurehead is supposed to do. Also, he probably enjoyed the walk, he probably doesn’t get to do that much.

I think this happened in the US a lot as we were developing modern sanitary practices. Eventually, they’ll evolve the local dog-catcher, too.

Mittens wants to send everyone in the US $1000, and an extra $500 per citizen (or taxpayer) kid. My counter-proposal is to suspend all of the tax-brackets below the 24% threshold ($168k for individuals, $326k for couples filing jointly) for 2020.

In lieu of music, I’ll submit this video of a good doge having fun while failing the agility course.