Oooohhhhh-En-Tee, Where The Wind Comes Whistlin' Down The Plains!

I loved the Tintin comics when I was a kid. I even liked the movie that they made about 10 years ago, the “animated live action” one. Funny, I don't remember this comic.

Science!

Actually, nature. This is really neat. It's an ant road (below) and a termite road (above). Note how each side lets the other go about its business....but both post a line of guards along the border between them.

Small Town

10 Facts: Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry is a beautiful little town, with the bonus of having lots of history stuffed into it. I actually drove out there a few weekends ago, but because the town is a park it was “closed”. They wouldn't let anyone who wasn't a resident in. Pity, because it's lovely. If you get a chance, you should go.

Not Scary At All

The military made a robot that can eat organisms for fuel

“Of course by organisms we mean grass and twigs. Silly worrier, there's no way one of them could slip from our control and rampage across the landscape, fueling itself on the bodies of its victims. No way at all that could happen. Nu-uh. Nope.”

Sports

Grading the 2020 NFL Draft’s most important war rooms

I have to admit, Kliff Kingsbury's looks like the room in which you meet the leader of the cult you've joined for the one and only time before you spend the rest of your life on your knees in the mud harvesting peas by hand. An amusing take on the draft-from-home the NFL just had.

Brian De Palma's Home Movies

Act 3; Scene 5: Brian plays with his grandson (sound on)

I'm Not Sure Where This Is From

Taiwan, maybe? But somebody hired a pretty clever ad agency to do their PSAs

Covid Quick Hits

Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy Remember, when people start demanding that governments “do something”, more often than not what they do is the wrong thing.

America Is Paying the Price for the NYC SuperSpreader I am so done with New York right now. That clip from last night where it was revealed that DeBlasio is leaving bodies to rot in their apartments was sickening.

What the Wuhan Virus on the USS Theodore Roosevelt Tells Us About What We Should Do Next Closed system. No distancing possible. Yet look at the death rate: 1. And if you want to claim that sailors are generally fit, look at the Diamond Princess. Same thing, a generally older and sicker population: 7 dead. Average the two and you probably have a pretty good mean for the population as a whole, and that ain't worth killing our Republic for.

For Better Health, Find a Cure for Government As Alfred Hitchcock might say, The cure comes in small capsules..

How Fake News Is Made

Remember all those “doctors and nurses blocking traffic” pictures from a week or so ago?

Things To Do When You're Bored

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