July | 2020 | Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988)

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Identity this!

July 25, 2020 § Leave a comment

Third World US–plagues and prisons

July 22, 2020 § Leave a comment

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2020/jul/1/man-sentenced-one-year-shoplifting-dies-prison-during-pandemic/

It is bipartisan. NJ is a Dem state.

Citizens United Fallout-The Reactionaries on the Court put elected offices up for sale…

July 22, 2020 § Leave a comment

Ohio House Speaker Arrested in Alleged $60 Million Racketeering, Bribery, Money Laundering Scheme; A Window Into Politics in America

He ascended the throne after buying it from the Praetorian Guard.

The Citizens United Case makes elections auctions by legalizing the bribes misnamed as “contributions”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

The relentless ineptitude of [fake] State of Hawaii governance…

July 18, 2020 § Leave a comment

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/07/18/states-routine-maintenance-major-irrigation-ditch-raises-environmental-concerns/

Trump’s Third-Worlding of the US

July 18, 2020 § Leave a comment

Columbus ‘paramilitary’ police with assault weapons jump out of unmarked vans to abduct protester

Life in Paradise… poor quality cops and poor quality training.

July 16, 2020 § Leave a comment

https://nypost.com/2020/07/16/former-honolulu-cop-sentenced-for-forcing-homeless-man-to-lick-urinal/

Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, William Buckley, faux renegades, true reactionaries.

July 16, 2020 § Leave a comment

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/intellectual-dark-web-michael-brooks?utm_source=Jacobin&utm_campaign=888e3f46e6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_01_07_50_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_be8b1b2846-888e3f46e6-85057657&mc_cid=888e3f46e6&mc_eid=032fecb2ee

None of the four ever rang true for me anyway and all seemed simply to be recycling Plato without giving credit.

Every Tourist is a Threat

July 13, 2020 § Leave a comment

The data is moving slower than the disease.

July 13, 2020 § Leave a comment

Especially in Florida and Texas

Magic err no “Tragic” Kingdom, mice as carriers of the plague…much of the present and all of the future will look back in wonder

July 13, 2020 § Leave a comment

and may conclude the plague drove some decisionmakers insane.

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