A year and some months ago, when the whole COVID-19 thing was ( Read more... )

• Mercury has a tail. Whodathunkit? With all that ( Read more... )

I've been scratching my head a lot lately, and I need to stop before I wear through my scalp. (My natural armor has been mostly gone for thirty-five years.) It's a natural, nay obvious question, which I'm putting in bold and giving its own paragraph:

If masks prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections, where did the ( Read more... )

Here come the just-so stories. I ran into one some weeks ago that reminded me of the category. Most people think of Just-So stories as fables about animals, as Kipling wrote, especially fables about animal origins; e.g., how the leopard got his spots.

But that's mostly because of Kipling. Wiktionary's definition of ( Read more... )

• Coffee is being used as a COVID-19 diagnostic tool. Basically, when you wake up and smell the coffee, make damned sure that you can smell the coffee. Carol and I kid each other about being able to smell lots of things, including coffee but also bacon, garlic, ozone...and dog poop. If we ever catch Teh Viruss, we will know it.
• This has evidently been ( Read more... )

• Wow. The magazine that gave us "The Case for Killing Granny" is now saying that our public health officials have overcounted COVID-19 deaths by counting any person dying with COVID-19 as dying of it--including suicides and, sheesh, car accident victims. This has been known for some time, but I give the otherwise dopey Newsweek credit for admitting ( Read more... )

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I realize that I should have made the masks portion of yesterday's wander its own post. What was supposed to be a casual collection of odd impressions of current events and what I'm up to turned into a mildly angry rant. That's just how things work in the back of my head sometimes.

Anyway. I ran into some links this morning that are worth ( Read more... )

Boy, writing this entry just felt good. I gotta do more of these...

• People are asking me what's happening with Dreamhealer. (First chapter here.) I'm working with an artist on a cover. The ( Read more... )

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