Make all the musicians wear masks. Last night was the first concert of the Seattle Chamber Music Society Winter Festival. It was the first in-person concert since January of 2020, live-streamed from Benaroya Hall in downtown Hellhole Seattle. One of the big benefits of chamber music is watching how the musicians interact with each other, …
Continue reading How to ruin the sublime chamber music experience [Edited to add pictures]
In one of his first acts as the new governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order giving Parents control over whether their children are required to wear a dehumanizing mask in school. School teachers (drunk with the power of their union) couldn't have that. In private messages, many teachers have issued various threats …
Continue reading These Virginia “educators” aren’t teachers, they are Tyrants
Kira Davis has been on my radar for a long time. When I started this blog in 2010, her site was one of the first links in my sidebar (and remains today). Last year, I joined Locals.com, after hearing that she had a presence there. Locals works on a pay-to-play basis; you can follow people, …
To Rochelle Walensky, who thinks the reason she's so ignored is that the messaging from her agency is not consistent: It's not the messaging, lady, it's the MESSAGE. I read in a Wall Street Journal article today that Walensky is being "coached by a media consultant"!!! I laughed out loud when I read that. Especially …
White isn't a color, it's the sum of all colors. These days, white gets the ultimate bad rap, due to the fact of the Black Lives Matter Marxists denigrating all white people, and demanding that they be crushed. But if white is the sum of all colors, shouldn't white be seen as the best? The …
Continue reading Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: #White
This week, I'll be starting at home, to capture some interesting objects around me. The first one is an empty bottle. Now, the bottle itself is unremarkable, a simple screw-top container. It's the labels on the bottle, which describe the contents, that make it interesting. A few years ago, a coworker of my husband came …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #182: Interesting Objects
Some companies are offering incentives for their employees to take the experimental CCP Virus vaccine booster shots. Many companies already have vaccine mandates for their office and factory workers, and some have lost employees who quit rather than be vaccinated. One company I read about today is offering a very peculiar "incentive" for their employees …
Continue reading How’s this for “you take the risk, we reap the rewards”?
Big Tech has deemed that the future is in the so-called "metaverse". This is a virtual world, where people are supposed to be living and interacting with others, as avatars. In fact, the biggest of "big tech", formerly known as Facebook, has gone so far as to change its corporate identity to Meta Platforms. This …
We have all been appalled to see what is happening to the people of Australia, Canada, and Austria, where their governments are opening internment camps (called “quarantine camps”) for unvaccinated citizens who refuse vaccination for Covid. Our state of Washington is now proposing similar rules for unvaccinated citizens. They are also proposing to add the …
Continue reading Washington State “Health Leaders” propose turning Washington into a Police State
The most salient characteristic of communism is the government ownership and control of the means of production. This signifies that private ownership of businesses is rare, or absent entirely. And the economy is not the only feature of a society that communist governments seek to control. The press, education, religion (if it is allowed at …
Continue reading Communist China’s Central Planners Stumped?
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