I’ve never been a big patron of restaurants, both for reasons of cost and health (plus I hate being waited on and having to tip for it), but I’m glad that people who were are trying to help with gift cards.
[Update a few minutes later]
I should note, here or someplace, that so far this has barely affected my lifestyle at all. I rarely go out to eat, and am generally a hermit when I’m not traveling.
The world will be changed.
Yes, and in many ways, for the better.
The problem with it isn’t what you can see, but what you can’t.
[Update a while later]
Six movies about pandemics to watch (or avoid) if you’re stuck at home (from Lileks).
Thoughts on the evil of normalizing Marxism.
Bernie isn’t just misguided; he’s evil. There should be just as much opprobrium for having a Che poster or teeshirt as there would be for a Hitler poster or teeshirt, but the cultural Marxists’ Gramscian march through the institutions has been successful. At the suborbital researchers conference last week in Broomfield, CO, I was talking to a professor of physiology from Brandeis. She was a refusenik who managed to get out of Leningrad in the early eighties. She was appalled that the Democrats were on the verge of nominating a communist apologist.
Wow. It’s been canceled.
First time ever.
I think that the book had been done before, but the new version sounds pretty good. It’s supposed to be a rainy day tomorrow (something that has been far too rare in what is supposed to be the wettest month in southern California), so maybe we’ll go see it. The scenery from the trailers looks like it would be spectacular on a big screen.
It’s unsurprising that they would churn out dangerous leftists.
[Update a while later]
Bernie Sanders, the time-warp socialist.
Huh.
This is the first time I’d heard of this guy.