No Skin Off Of Their Asses

The latest catchphrase "social distancing" is really a joke. It would only work if everybody walked around wearing space suits or stayed locked inside. Since the former is obviously impossible, the latter has come to be public policy, with shut downs of schools, libraries and increasingly businesses of all sorts. It's not even possible to get anything to eat anymore. Doctors of course don't care; they are making around $150,000 a year and in any case their livelihoods are not affected. Much of the liberal media has also jumped on the bandwagon, based on comparisons with the epidemic of 1918. Except that the epidemic of 1918 was incurable in its time. That is not true today.

The brings the question of what the rest of us are supposed to do. Stay in our homes and starve? Maybe we should be allowed to go about our business, and take our chances with the virus.

Totalitarian Feminism Shows Its Face

The recent decision by Hatchette Publishing to not publish the memoirs of Woody Allen shows the totalitarian nature not only of MeToo but of Feminism in general. Totalitarianism, at its simplest, is a group of people who think they have a mandate to dictate to others what to say, what to read, and what to think. The way in which the management of Hatchette allowed itself to intimidated by feminist hoodlums will go down as one of the worst examples of censorship in history. Another characteristic of totalitarianism is that it is often built around a cult like following of a leader who is supposed to be all knowing and all good. For the MeToofers that leader is Ronan Farrow. What will happen when Ronan Farrow is finally exposed as a scum bag liar with a twisted mother complex? The same thing that happened to communism after the crimes of Stalin were revealed.

Trump's Peace Deal is Falling Apart

Trump's supposed peace deal, which was supposed to lead to a US withdrawal from Afghanistan, is falling apart. The problem is that the Taliban is demanding the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners. The government of President Ashraf Ghani, however, is refusing. It turns out that the deal was only between the Trump administration and the Taliban. Ghani's government was excluded, which now seems like a big mistake. In the meantime, the fighting in Afghanistan continues. So much for the peace accord.

Donald Trump has been trying to conduct foreign policy the same way he ran his business: on the basis of shady deals. It turns out he is now dealing with opponents who have his number.