I’m not moving into the new bedroom yet. But I’m moving a few things that direction and trying to be ruthless about what stays and what gets donated or tossed. I found this in the Dreaded Category of “stuff I’ll never use but can’t let go of”: A prize of … well, absolutely nothing except gigantic bragging rights goes to the first person who can answer the two-part question: Who is Uncle Sam and what did he do to get his mug on this tee-shirt?
Category: Miscellaneous
li>Five months of texts missing? That’s nothing. “Losing” or destroying inconvenient evidence is the FBI’s stock in trade says Jim Bovard.
ALERT — ALERT — ALERT The federal government has shut down. Please use the comment thread on this post to report all instances of rioting in the streets, highway robbery, rise of warlords, cannibalism, human sacrifice, and instances of non-essential employees reporting to work that you observe today. I’m sorry that your Commentariat friends will be unable to rescue you if you are besieged in your house by zombie hordes. We will all be dealing with survival issues of our own. I plan to make it through the week on lentils. Beyond that, I may have to eat the cat.…
… we are having a discussion about this season’s flu and how to fight it. If you’ve been following the news, you know that the current common strain is a nasty one — and that this year’s vaccine is a miss. The vac is only 19% effective, at best, and by some counts only 10%. I also know we have quite a few around here, including several retired or current medical people, who wouldn’t get a flu vaccine if it were billed as 97% effective. (Partly because the vaccines have such a history of being surrounded by misinformation and propaganda.)…