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Never mind prevention or vaccines; the big question is “who can we sue after this blows over to rake in millions of dollars?” Yes, this is pathetic, tragic, perverse and evil, but that’s reality in a hyper-litigious society like the U.S.

Many people are struck by the apparent over-reaction of Corporate America to the Covid-19 threat, but this is the only rational response in a hyper-litigious society: the number one priority in a hyper-litigious society is to limit liability. Everything–and yes, we mean everything–flows from this obsessive concern with limiting future liability.

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People of Color behaving badly — what are the odds?

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Funny how these ‘hate crimes’ all seem to occur in Blue States.

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Haters gotta H8.

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This is, technically, an act of war. War between Turkey and Greece is not out of the question.

This might prove an excellent excuse to kick Turkey out of NATO once and for all.

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In the campaign to do away with biannual resetting of clocks in America, health experts point to studies showing heart attacks, strokes, and car accidents are more prevalent shortly after a time change.

And yet we continue to do it. Why?

What if everybody just said, ‘No, I’m staying on the same time all year around.’

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Not to mention grocery store parking lot spaces.

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An associate professor and researcher at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has been arrested for allegedly concealing ties to a Chinese university while receiving federal funding, according to a recent Justice Department press release.

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Forget fake news. The media has come up with fake math. If you want to understand better why “progressives” like Bernie Sanders and Lizzie Warren think it easy to provide free stuff to everybody, get a load of the common core math at work in this short 45-second clip….

Steve Sailer keeps track of this stuff so you don’t have to.

Besides promoting transgenderism and the career of Barack Obama, the Pritzker clan of Chicago tirelessly backs the cause of bringing more ugliness into the world with the Pritzker Prize for architects who inflict upon the world new shapes that nobody previously had thought were a good idea to build. Generally speaking, designing ugly buildings is a very white male thing (e.g, Thom Mayne, 2005 Pritzker Prize winner), but this year the Pritzker Prize people took a stand to remind us that two white women can design buildings that are just as ugly as one white man can.

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Nikki Goeser watched the man who had stalked her murder her husband in a gun-free zone. Because she was a law-abiding concealed carry permit holder, Goeser’s firearm was safely locked away in her vehicle, leaving her defenseless.

Chef Ramsey’s Refusal to Cook for Trump Stirs Social Media

Baier, Hemingway WRECK the Liberal Media Narrative Russia Threw 2016 to Trump

Cuomo: Chief Justice Roberts Is a ‘Problem’ for Not Calling Trump ‘Dangerous’  You tell ’em, Fredo.

Spies, lies and secret recordings – how a Cambridge professor snooped on Trump campaign advisers

Trump report bizarrely claims net neutrality repeal raised incomes $50B a year The author, Jon Brodkin, who studied journalism and literature, is of course highly qualified to criticize a government report on economics.

Coronavirus: NYT Science Writer Admits Trump Proven Right on Travel Restrictions

Classless Krugman Uses Coronavirus to Accuse Trump, GOP of ‘War on Truth,’ Conspiracies  And he’s always been right in the past.

Ex-Newsweek Editor Meacham Lauds Biden as ‘Rational Choice’ Against ‘Unthinkable’ Trump

Study: ‘Emboldened’ Trump Drives Month-Long Media Panic

Trump Pushes Back On Claims He Told Coronavirus Patients To ‘Go To Work’

A short list of Biden backers who declared Trump mentally unfit for office  We got yer irony, right here.

Scarborough: Schumer’s SCOTUS Threat ‘Reprehensible,’ But Rebuke Trump Too!

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Why doesn’t Bernie? Surely he can afford it.

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And why not? They’ve got nothing to lose.

Coming Soon: Open-Source Blueprints for a Tiny Nuclear Reactor  But not in Tacoma Park, Maryland, where nuclear power plants are banned.

Aussie Government ABC Predicts Mass Extinction in our Lifetimes  Perhaps in Australia….

Climate change: Warm winter ruins German ice wine harvest

Fact-checking the NY Times’ “Lies”

Study shows rapid sea level rise along Atlantic coast of North America in 18th century

10 Eco-Friendly Products for a More Sustainable Lifestyle

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They ought to nickname them ‘Biden’ and ‘Bernie’.

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Last week, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform conducted a hearing that purported to examine the history and current state of voting rights in America. Witnesses testified that Texas’s free voter ID cards, for example, are too burdensome on the poor and on minority communities, particularly blacks.

If free voter IDs create such a hardship, why don’t we hear more complaints about the various fees and expensive IDs that are required to own a gun and pass a background check?

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The Greek border is being besieged by thousands of migrants convinced they can reach EU welfare havens following Ankara’s decision to stand down.

Following clashes that saw migrants pelt police with rocks and other objects, one victim was shot through the mouth and died at the scene.

The more the ‘migrants’ push, the harder the reaction will be.

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Just days after Beijing promised to send a a 1,000-duck “army” to Pakistan to help farmers fend off one of the largest locust swarms in decades, senior government officials warned that China could soon face an “invasion” of desert locusts and urged local authorities to prepare for battle, even as the country struggles to get back on its feet after being shut down for so long.

Wow, you’d think Somebody Up There doesn’t like them.

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Not being Chinese or a resident of either Left Coast, I don’t feel an urge to do that.

However, I am surrounded by low-IQ people, so who knows?

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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Margaret Sanger would be very pleased.

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Furious Canadians slammed the government for failing to cancel flights from Iran, presently the country with the worst outbreak outside China, and other policies that suggest a dangerously blithe response from the government, perhaps as a consequence of PM Trudeau’s commitment to ‘woke’ policies (many have slammed travel bans as racist).

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Just do it.

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I’d be inclined to say that we don’t have a wog in that fight, but that’s me.

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Perhaps because that’s when the press started to be obviously biased.

I was there in 1964. I remember.

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True to Erdogan’s prior threat that Europe would see 18,000 to as many as 30,000 refugees pour across European Union borders on Saturday after Turkey ‘opened the gates,’ it’s being reported that the number of migrants at Evros — a key land border between Turkey and Greece — has now reached 15,000.

Throughout Saturday the area became a war zone as thousands of refugees, urged on by Turkish authorities, attempted to cross into Greece en masse.

Sounds as if they need a wall.

Germany’s Der Spiegal published footage showing migrants hurling tear gas grenades at Greek police, reportedly canisters provided by Turkish security themselves.

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This is why Turkey ought not to be a member of NATO.

UPDATE: Two Syrian Jets Shot Down By Turkey Near Idlib As War Escalates

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Shocking video out of Ontario, Canada shows left-wing environmentalist protesters attempt to derail and then set fire to a train.

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I guess we’ll soon see the violence  inherent in the system.

The U.S. is stuck in this imbroglio because both Greece and Turkey are members of NATO (which has no purpose now that the Soviet Union is dead) and also long-standing enemies. This will not end well.

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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz sparred with New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over several unanswered science questions.

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The health commissioner for Lagos, Africa’s largest city with more than 20 million people, said an Italian citizen who entered Nigeria from Milan on Tuesday on a business trip became ill the next day, the Associated Press reported. The Commissioner said officials were working to identify all of the man’s contacts in Nigeria because he was infected with the contagious coronavirus, and a doctor at the hospital caring for the individual told the Associated Press that he is “doing well and we expect that he will continue to do well.”

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The ongoing coronavirus outbreak in China has led to popular game “Plague Inc” to be pulled from the country’s App Store after China decided it was illegal — despite having been available for eight years.

Repeat after me: COM. U.NIST. COUN. TRY.

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The Milwaukee man who killed five co-workers at a beer company’s corporate office is a black Elizabeth Warren supporter, providing a clue as to why the mass shooting disappeared from the discussion so quickly.

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The Bernie influence.

Looking at the news recently, I see a very ugly picture forming: The Democrat ruling class, along with their propaganda wing in the DemLegHump Media, are trying (a) to panic everybody about the Coming Coronavirus Apocalypse (‘Pull your kids out of school! Don’t go to work! Stay home and shiver in the dark!) and (b) undercut so far as they can public confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to handle the coronavirus problem while attempting to superglue Trump to Bush’s problems with Hurricane Katrina.

I suspect that they’re trying, insofar as they can, to tank the economy before the election in order to blacken one of Trumps chief accomplishments. The Wall Street clerisy has been dooming & glooming ever since Trump got elected — WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! THE STOCK MARKET WILL EVAPORATE! POLAR BEARS WILL BE WANDERING BROADWAY LOOKING FOR NEW HOMES! — and now they can say See I Told You So until their throats get hoarse.

I suspect it’s going to get uglier before we see the sun again.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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The sample’s overall case-fatality rate was 2.3%, higher than World Health Organization official 0.7% rate. No deaths occurred in those aged 9 years and younger, but cases in those aged 70 to 79 years had an 8% fatality rate and those aged 80 years and older had a fatality rate of 14.8%.

No deaths were reported among mild and severe cases. The fatality rate was 49% among critical cases, and elevated among those with preexisting conditions: 10.5% for people with cardiovascular disease, 7.3% for diabetes, 6.3% for chronic respiratory disease, 6% for hypertension, and 5.6% for cancer.

A very evolutionary disease.

“COVID-19 rapidly spread from a single city to the entire country in just 30 days,” the JAMA paper added. “The sheer speed of both the geographical expansion and the sudden increase in numbers of cases surprised and quickly overwhelmed health and public-health services in China.”

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I think it was Tom Bethell, back when he wrote the must-read Washington column for The American Spectator, who asked the pertinent question when Bernie Sanders was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives under the Socialist Party affiliation in 1990: How will we be able to tell the difference between Bernie’s socialism and the “mainstream” Democratic Party in Washington?

That illuminating question has become suddenly urgent now that Bernie may be the Democrats’ presidential nominee this year. Bethell’s astute point, 30 years ago, is being borne out today: Bernie is the telos of the modern Democratic Party. This can be proven with Euclidian precision with the simple observation that all of Bernie’s rivals essentially say they are for the same things as Bernie, only a little less costly and intrusive, etc. In other words, all of Bernie’s rivals stand for the proposition that they desire Socialism-Lite. It is great fun watching them tie themselves in knows dealing with him in the so-called Democratic “debates.” Message to Bernie: Shut up, they explained. No wonder things are not going well for Democrats at the moment.

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Discrimination against China and Chinese people have erupted since the Covid-19 outbreak in January. Anxieties are high as many are avoiding Chinatowns across the world for fear, they might contract the deadly virus.

From Australia to New York City to Toronto to England to San Francisco, Chinatowns in many regions of the world have transformed into ghost towns. We noted this phenomenon last week.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders are flagging an internal audit that found the rise of sanctuary jurisdictions is negatively affecting how the agency apprehends and deports criminal illegal aliens.

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You know things are bad for Tesla’s “autopilot” when regulators are not only blaming Tesla, but turning on other regulators. This is what happened on Tuesday, when the NTSB criticized Tesla’s “lack of system safeguards” during a fatal 2018 Autopilot crash in California. They also faulted the “scant oversight” of U.S. regulators, according to Reuters.

The chairman of the NTSB, Robert Sumwalt, said that Tesla ignored safety recommendations issued in 2017 by the agency. “It’s been 881 days since these recommendations were sent to Tesla. We’re still waiting,” he said.

“Industry keeps implementing technology in such a way that people can get injured to killed, including this board’s recommendations intended to help them prevent such tragedies,” Sumwalt continued.

Since 2016, the company’s Autopilot has been tied to at least 3 fatal accidents. And why would Elon Musk rush to correct its behavior or pay attention to NTSB recommendations when there is no negative consequence to ignoring them?

Hammer tech.

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Incidents were reported on Lesbos and Chios, outlying Greek islands that sit on the front line of a migration route for refugees and asylum seekers. Authorities announced this month they would expedite the creation of centres on five Greek islands, angering locals who say they are bearing the burden of the refugee crisis and that more asylum seekers should be transferred to the mainland amid severe overcrowding.

Witnesses said about 500 people attempted to block the unloading of heavy machinery overnight to break ground at a construction site on Lesbos.

Clashes on the streets followed, with residents attempting to block access to the construction site, and police using tear gas. Similar tensions were reported on Chios.

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The London Times reports on the discovery of a major spy ring in Australia. The guilty country is not named, but obviously is China.

Kevin Williamson calls for a time-out.

As we abandon moral language for clinical language, we run into technical difficulties. Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman describes the 2020 presidential election as one that may be a contest between “a self-proclaimed socialist and an undiagnosed sociopath.”

There is no such thing as an “undiagnosed sociopath” because there is no such thing as a “diagnosed sociopath”—“sociopath” is not a clinical diagnosis. It is, like much of the psychological jargon that infests our journalism and our public discourse, less a medical term than a pop-culture trope, something that people pick up from watching too many police procedurals and reading too much self-help literature. (Any self-help literature is too much.) Like “empathy,” “sociopath” is really a literary conceit. The same holds broadly true for “psychopath.” Some terms, such as “narcissist,” straddle the line between medicine and pop culture. We love to engage in amateur diagnosis and to pathologize our rivals, family members, romantic disappointments, etc.

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A monument to people with more money than taste.

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The lucrative ‘book deal’ is one of the modern variants of the classic ‘no-show job’ with which Useful Idiots are paid off for their services. There is always a stable of ghost-writers standing by to make sure that the product is not too embarrassing, and a sea of low-information proles standing by to shell out the appropriate contribution.

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There has been remarkably little clarity, however, on the key question: What’s really driving the homelessness crisis in West Coast cities? For the past decade, progressive political leaders, activists, and media organizations have insisted that housing costs are the primary cause of homelessness. There is some truth to that: It’s obvious that in the largest West Coast cities, where a one-bedroom apartment rents for at least $2,000 a month, it’s more difficult for low-income individuals to afford stable housing.

However, as an emerging body of evidence shows, homelessness in America’s West Coast cities—particularly unsheltered homelessness—is not driven primarily by high housing costs, but rather by three interrelated phenomena: addiction, mental illness, and permissive public policies.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

UPDATE: Cut thru myths to see facts about COVID-19

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Not enough Magic Dirt, apparently.