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Open Thread September 28

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/28/20, 7:14 am

I got the flu shot last week. Was into and out of the pharmacy faster than it has ever been before. And now I will be less likely to catch or pass on another deadly virus. Still have to deal with COVID-19.

So wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread 9/25

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/25/20, 7:31 am

I am very uncomfortable with Pac 12 football starting again. The expanded testing is good, but geez so many of the programs that have started playing games have met with pretty serious problems. I can’t imagine there not being a major outbreak in one, and probably several, of the teams.

I certainly don’t want to blame individual players who want to play. To lose a whole year is awful. But it’s got to be up to governments and institutions to step in for public health.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/23/20, 7:27 am

The judicial norms breaking is leading nowhere good. But unilateral norms breaking seems bad too. So here is my proposal if the Republicans nominate and approve a Justice to replace RBG and Democrats get a trifecta.

First off, do the maximum judicial stuff. Add 100 seats to the Supreme Court. Strip the lower courts of power, replace them with a different system, and fill that with liberal judges. The whole 9 yards.

While this is happening, propose an amendment to the Constitution. Many states have commissions or other means of making judicial appointments fair. Pick the best one and adopt it. It also fires all judges except for cases they are working on. If Republicans want a cease fire, they can pass the amendment, if not at least there will be a liberal court for a while.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Anarchy Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/21/20, 6:49 am

Anarchy. Anarchy anarchy anarchy. Anarchy. ANARCHY.

Wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread Friday

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/18/20, 7:32 am

Congratulations to the Attorney General’s victory in the Post Office case. Long term, we’ll have to staff the Post Office with people who aren’t dedicated to destroying it.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/16/20, 7:18 am

Are you surviving the smoke? It’s pretty gross. I live in the urban core, and according to Google Maps the farthest building I could see from my window is less than half a mile. And even that is an improvement from earlier in the week.

If you have to work outside, or go outside for any reason, I feel for you. Gross, gross, gross.

And, you still have to wash your hands. So wash your hands right now.

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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/14/20, 7:45 pm

Gaaah, look at how late this post is.

Wash your hands right now.

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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/11/20, 7:26 am

Another day, another threat from Amazon. I don’t know if it’s pandemic, or otherwise business related. Or trying to scare Seattle once again. The article mentions that they are moving some things to Redmond, a city with a head tax.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/9/20, 5:47 am

Are you surviving the fires? Jeez it seemed like it happened all at once. And all of the smoke. Stay safe and follow any evacuation orders.

And wash your hands.

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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/4/20, 8:41 pm

Sorry it’s so late! I had to get up early for work and then I forgot to write this. So I thought that I would write it at lunch, but that slipped my mind when I was making lunch. Then I went for a walk right after work and now it’s past 8:30…

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/2/20, 12:01 pm

The people who make police accountability more difficult make defunding more likely. Now we find out more about the investigation of the King County deputy who shot a man in the back. It’s pretty grim stuff. From an investigation clearly meant to exonerate to lying to the media, this investigation was no good.

As the article mentions, Initiative 940 passed since then provides more accountability. So I hope that will prevent situations like this from happening again. But if it doesn’t, I don’t know what to do other than defunding.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread 8/31

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/31/20, 7:36 am

I had missed it earlier, but what great news that the continent of Africa is wild polio free. It’s a huge milestone even as more work needs to be done. Congrats on the decades long effort.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread 8-28

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/28/20, 7:10 am

Did you go against my advice and watch the Republican convention? I saw clips and it seemed like they didn’t know what to do with speeches without an audience. The speakers would build and build and pause to a second of awkward silence.

The President solved this problem with massive norms and probably legal violations. That’s probably also going to be remembered more as a super spreader event than for anything he said. Disgusting.

But not disgusting is you washing your hands right now.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 8/26/20, 8:26 am

Parents of school age children, how are you holding up? It seems like it’s going to be a difficult learning from home start of the year. Just the uncertainty. And goodness knows how long it will be before kids can go back.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/24/20, 7:31 am

Will you be watching the Republican convention? I will not. It’s probably irresponsible to watch when there are people there live. Is it encouraging a potential super spreader event? And of course it will be a hate filled event for an awful people. I say give it a pass.

But don’t pass on washing your hands. Do it right now.

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