Cascade Youth

Makes you think they might be a Pegula, fits the type!

One thing this pandemic has done is highlight the flaws of nearly every institution. Reactionary, defensive communist regime full of fearful bureaucrats? Not a surprise they sat on the problem and tried to cover up the true extent of the outbreak: it was predictable. Science-skeptical President who carried out his mandate of gutting established bureaucracies and prefers his own instincts to actual data? Can’t be surprised that his “nothing to see here” first reaction made him look like the mayor from Jaws. Regardless of your politics, you could have gone from institution to institution around the world and predicted exactly what ended up happening based on the type of people in charge and their professed world outlooks. From the standpoint of American society writ large, I hope this is an apolitical statement: we generally prefer a “buy now, pay later” approach. We finance things on credit, it’s part of the American DNA. This is what we’ve chosen, always. Americans don’t want to spend now to deal with a problem in the future: we don’t want to pay now for a medical infrastructure that would maybe help some future generation deal with a pandemic. This is the result; it was entirely predictable. Some might say the next big debt coming due is climate change, but even suggesting that has become “political” so I won’t go there. Personally I would hope society learns some lessons from all of this and realizes that being guided by anything other than science and data is a dangerous recipe for catastrophe - but some things are so deeply embedded in American culture that I’m skeptical anything will really change.

Yes, thank you for being “fair.”

Must be nice to just believe whatever you want.

I’d be concerned about any haul which Botts & Co. evaluated.

So weird that a crazy thing like that would happen in Florida...

Same, started it up tonight. What a bunch of lunatics. Humanity, I mean.

You can now order cocktails for delivery in New York State. The wife and I ordered mason jars full of Negronis the other day. What a world, hope that sticks.

It felt like 25 hours. Zero narrative arc. Just a run-on sentence.

Home schooling the kids Baking sourdough breads Finally watched “The Irishman”

Good writeup here: https://www.newsweek.com/hydroxychloroquine-malaria-drug-coronavirus-fda-1493293

Trump agrees

Unfortunately Botts prefers forwards who are finished.

Gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re trolling. Odd time to do that, but to each his own.

The idea that the virus was invented and disseminated by a secret group of "multinationals" (which, throughout history, usually means Jewish bankers, but not saying you meant it that way) is not only insane, it's extremely unhelpful and downright harmful. If political takes aren't allowed, I respectfully submit that lunatic conspiracy theories shouldn't be allowed either. Please.

Please, stop, this is insane. The length people go to believe crazy crap like this, as opposed to what is right in front of their face, scientificly proven, and driving right at them like a freight train, is simply amazing.

Well, Skinner.

Boycott.

The seat gives amazing pep talks tho.

Honestly that ends the discussion. Well said.

They are gonna lose out.

Eichel has been turning over the puck at a record rate the last couple of weeks.

Johansson settling right into the culture of suck...

Jack is not right

It wasn’t you. But it was done.