Not Just the End of IT, the End of IT Contractors.
”The bail-out legislation doesn’t address this possibility so they’d probably get away with it, effectively turning a bail-out meant to save jobs into an insidious technique for getting rid of them.
Bob Cringely
Crowds gather on Manhattan’s west side to watch arrival of USNS Comfort
Filed in the ‘you can’t make this up’ category.
They know why it’s there… right?
THIRTY ONE
Well - that was fun. These are all the pictures I used in the 30 day challenge and of course all visible in their full glory here.
But why did I do it?
What The Virus Said
Robert Hurley | Lundi Matin | 27th March 2020
Via ‘The Browser’ who wrote;
“A poem, of sorts. As if Nietzsche did the first draft with T.S. Eliot on rewrite. "
Not sure i like the system font on MB … or maybe it is because I haven’t got used to it yet. Time will tell.
Be cool if I could choose my own font if I wanted to.
OK - giving up again - for now - just cannot get my css to change how replies are appearing on a single post page.
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Donald Trump refuses to pay security bill for Harry and Meghan.
Well of course not - did somebody suggest they should?
The word refuses suggests that someone did - but they are private individuals.
Are We Prepared for COVID-19 Hitting the Southern Hemisphere?
”If you’re a sociopath, maybe you don’t care.”
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Disunited states of America: responses to coronavirus shaped by hyper-partisan politics.
”The divergence in state responses to coronavirus does not cleanly split along the red-blue line … It’s more like the rational states versus the Trump Republican states.”
Manuel Pastor. USC
US awol from world stage as China tries on global leadership for size.
”… planes full of medical supplies from China arriving in Italy, at a time when the US was quietly flying in half a million Italian-made diagnostic swabs for use in its own under-equipped health system.”
Jared Kushner is as good at handling pandemics as he is at bringing peace to the Middle East.
Unless you really want to, don’t bother clicking through. It’s the headline that tickled me.
So True!
Interesting juxtaposition of two stories in my feeds today.
Russia calls U.S. sanctions on Venezuela a ‘tool of genocide’ amid epidemic.
Well. Yes.
It takes Russia to point this out?
The sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden, explained.
Well, we knew it would happen.