Obliviots – Social Commentary and More
The MSI and You The Moron Saturation Index (MSI) I recently coined this phrase and acronym (MSI) – the Moron Saturation Index. I formulated this concept as my daily social media newsfeed – and all other sources of media / news / information bombarded me with scenes and headlines indicating we are headed straight to Read More …
As if a global pandemic was not enough… In recent days, the heinous murder of George Floyd has produced legitimate protests against an ongoing trend of law enforcement employing excessive force and deliberate murder against black Americans. The institutional racism inherent in many American police departments is a well documented black eye on the nation Read More …
Comparing 4 Countries With the Same Population and Covid-19 May 2, 2020 (original post) This is from my Coronavirus Archives page published May 2, 2020 Scroll to the bottom for updated statistics as of June 28, 2020 to see the new numbers / trend. I thought it would make an interesting analysis to take 4 Read More …
August 16,2020: Notice: Picking up where we left off on July 31st The Coronavirus Blog SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19 Today’s Statistics The spreadsheet is always the current data FYI: I aggregate the results from 3 different coronavirus tracking sites. I enter the highest numbers from these 3 in the interactive spreadsheet because we KNOW the cases are Read More …
Celebrity Cruises is Not Making Points With Us And a lot of others The coronavirus (Covid-19) has made life difficult for a lot of people. Inconvenient for us. Catastrophic for so many more. We most certainly do not want to make light of the deadly / catastrophic impact of this virus in China and elsewhere Read More …
Much has been made of the 2020 State of the Union debacle. Trump (unsurprisingly) turned it into a campaign rally and filled it so full of lies that if we eliminated them all, it could be condensed to about 15 minutes instead of the 78 minutes he blustered through. Wonderfully, Nancy Pelosi (I am not Read More …
Over the last 4 years or so, Trump’s detractors (I am proud to be in that club) have been finding clever ways to portray the buffoon in the Oval Office. Graphic illustrations, cartoons and the like have been employed to amusing effect. But finding the perfect animal. Mother Nature’s contribution to this valiant effort… Until Read More …
It is incredibly rare (almost non-existent) that I plagiarize anyone else’s work. Except for this instance, where I immediately “stole” it from a Facebook post yesterday. I very simply could not possibly have worded this better. It is perfect. I would change nothing. Therefore I stole it immediately. According to the post this Read More …
Yet another bloody weekend in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. Multiple mass shootings taking place with a completely unacceptable body count. Let’s start at the top: El Paso, Texas A lone gunman travels over 600 miles in 9 hours with an AK 47 style rifle to shoot up Hispanics at Read More …
Texas Proud is Great. We are Texas Proud. We love the Lone Star State. We are Texas transplants. It would be great if we had been born in the Lone Star State, but we were not. We CHOSE to make Texas our home. We could have lived anywhere but we chose Texas. We did this Read More …
