:waccosun: WaccoBB is closing on Friday, February 5th at 2pm. :waccosun:

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I'll be online from 1:30 to 2pm for any last comments.

It's been real
(or, rather, virtual! :wink:)

good message Jude! I did not use the "gratitude button" as much as I would have if this very old, slow computer did not have to open up a new window in order to do so - maybe that's a setting I...

Thanks, Barry, for all your efforts to support our community by allowing us a space to share, and learn from each other. I'm really sad at this ending, but wish you the very best. Good people like...

aha, so waccoBB's closure is (in large part) really another casualty of the response to covid, both financial and emotional/intellectual. well, damn.

i was thinking about rousting a membership...

I guess it's official now :wink:

Barry (aka "Chertov")

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Lots of factors have converged to make this the appropriate...

<br><br>Yes. My family wears masks to keep well while my spouse awaits a ❤ transplant. We toss used masks, replace filters often as well as washing the cloth ones regularly. No, masks are not causing...

I agree, it does. But I think the simple answer is sure, they are. The other binary choice, don't mandate, seems worse.

The real problem is that our culture - and maybe most cultures - don't...

There is a strong statistical correlation between the number of teachers in a county and the quantity of alcoholic beverages consumed in that county. Obviously, teachers are drunkards.

It is also...

When, as a nurse, do you recall refrigeration trucks lined up outside of hospitals for the purpose of storing dead bodies because the morgues were beyond capacity?

When, in your lifetime, do you...

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It's time to defund the Republican Party

In yesterday's rant, I laid out all the reasons why Democrats should put at the top of their priority list "defunding the Republican Party." ...

This is an interesting study but may not be a surprise to many of us.

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A very good read I just came upon. An explanation of how "they" (working class Americans) can support Republicans and. particularly, Trump?

What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working...

Back in the Sixties people would set themselves on fire to protest the war in Vietnam. I am waiting for a Republican to set themselves on fire to protest their belief that the election was stolen...

Are you aware, Hotspring44, that there is a faction of Evangelicals in Amerika - a very small faction - {perhaps only fifteen percent of the sum total of "American evangelicals"} who don't buy...

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wow....Mayacaman...I had to wonder what point you were endeavoring to make using Barry's whole name five times in your missive. For me, that gave your writing a zealous tone that made it hard for me...

I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now

You’ve already lost. This is what Americans need to understand

From Medium an unexpected voice explains . . .

Two new sources indicating the virus was active earlier than reported, September, for China, October for Italy. I know I and other people on the property I live on had a very different illness in...

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When the World Seems Like One Big Conspiracy
Understanding the structure of global cabal theories can shed light on their allure...

Ironic when a small minority that has neither science or logic on their side call the others a "cult"

I want all the time of my life I wasted watching that drivel back...

And let/s see- after...

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It really makes me upset when people in the Democratic party want to stay moderate and centralist instead of striving for the progressive side. I wanted Bernie because he is a fighter and doesn't...

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Trump firing Mark Esper is far more nuanced. Here is a fascinating article by Politico reporting on the chain resignations that followed Esper's firing, which took place immediately afterwards in the...

Agreed. But the insinuation is a disturbing one, nonetheless. If you were a dictator and your defense minister refused to use the military domestically to crush civilians, the logical action of a...

Pretty good opinion piece from the NYTimes on what would have happened if Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren had been the Democrat nominee:

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I don’t see this as an issue at all. It was well known they did not get along. By all accounts he composed his resignation letter a couple minths ago. Updated it a few weeks ago.
This is just...

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it just means that the high-stakes elections keep rolling in. First, and really soon, the Georgian runoff elections, then in two years, midterms with the Senate at stake again. We better get used to...

I wish I could share your optimism- but I don’t.

Let’s leave aside for the moment that Biden has not yet “won” , because it does seem likely.

Still- the legal fights and the recounts have only...

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In Memoriam: The Trump Presidency

Donny, you're fired!

good question, one worth answering someday.

However, this seems to be a lot of inside-baseball, because the problem seems to be incorrectly framed. We're talking about - what public policy...

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and on the other other hand, if you're good, it's easy to fool people with reason too. Get them started on a logical path from subtlely bogus premises, they'll even help you.

On the other hand, it is easy to fool people who respect neither facts nor reason.

Have you noticed how the Texas Taliban is growing in numbers and violence as evidenced by attempting to force a Biden bus off the road? The Texas Taliban is no different than the Afghanistan...

Masks also work as an inconsiderate fool detector. No mask in public you are one and can hopefully avoided.

Another profoundly disturbing article by Umair Haque.

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We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America...

I found this graphic that summarizes relative risk with/without masking in various settings.

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<section class="fe ff fg fh fi">We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.
We Survivors of Authoritarianism Have a Message America Needs to Hear: This is Exactly How it Happens, and...

Ok... let's put all the experts in the field as well as those that somehow "earned" a PHD aside for a moment and look at the facts logically.

We know that Covid is mostly spread by aerosolized...

It seems like this is kind of a pointless argument at this point. An incomplete data set and the picture is far from drawn.

People want to use these cases as arguments for how government and...

Nah, IMHO you're taking it way too personally. It's not just your pain. It's collective. You're just paying attention!
He's called forth by conditions which have gotten way out of balance. He's...

In response to a friend's question about rather 2020 is over, it is obviously not over. However, the United States are over, in my opinion. If I were not 75 years old and spending most days in bed, I...

I did not vote for that pile of human garbage called, "Trump." In 2016 I voted for Sanders in the primaries and then for Hillary in November's general election. I made thousands of phone calls from...

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