Y'all, there were almost 2,500 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi yesterday. That's more than the total number of kids in the Itawamba County School System when I graduated. Hell, there's just a little over 3,600 kids in it now. Across the country, we've had over 13.6 million cases and over 270,000 deaths. Those numbers are staggering. … Continue reading Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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Friday, September 18, 2020
Right out of the gate, we've got some big news. Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died earlier this evening. She passed away due to complications from metastatic pancreas cancer, something she'd been dealing with for the past couple of years. She was at her home surrounded by family. She was 87 and 2020 just gets … Continue reading Friday, September 18, 2020
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Okay, so we're in Day Four of our little early morning experiment, and though I stayed up too late last night trying to liberate humanity from the oppressive horror of alien occupation, I'm going to try to get something knocked out before today's nap. Besides, I have some Actual Paying Work due tomorrow, and experience … Continue reading Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Monday, May 4, 2020
Well, we've got a new day, new week and a new month to work with. One hopes it will be less depressingly stupid than the last couple, but one shouldn't get one's hopes up. There's been a mess of Dumb in the past 24 hours. First let's find our bearings. As of today, going on … Continue reading Monday, May 4, 2020
Friday, April 24, 2020
People keep comparing the news of the day with dystopian fiction or that Trump's special brand of jibber-jabber has an Orwellian cast to it. That ain't so. For one, fiction has to have at least some sort of internal logic and make some kind of sense. Secondly, George Orwell had a much better ear for … Continue reading Friday, April 24, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
Well, it was an interesting weekend, wasn't it? Not a whole hell of a lot got accomplished, granted, but it was pretty interesting. So, let's dig in and see if we can't wrap our heads around whatever the hell is going on. A little programming note first, though. As we noted yesterday, we're going to … Continue reading Monday, March 23, 2020
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