Month: March 2020

Belarus’s strongman rejects coronavirus risks. He suggests saunas and vodka.In Belarus, authoritarian leader President Alexander Lukashenko has famously scoffed at the coronavirus as a “frenzy and psychosis.” His views also come with advice for citizens who don’t share his coronavirus scorn: Hit the sauna, down some vodka and get back to work. — Kentuckians get...

Oprah Winfrey, along with other celebrities, has just had to deny having been arrested for sex trafficking. Occam’s Razor is sometimes overused (with unintentional irony) but it should certainly apply to one of the fundamental dilemmas of our time: the willingness of many people to believe the unlikely. Occam’s principle suggests, to paraphrase, that “the...

‘Alex Jones claimed on his radio show last week that his Silverblue toothpaste “kills the whole SARS-corona family at point-blank range,” according to a news release on Thursday by New York Attorney General Letitia James.’ Alex Jones is of course the bellowing, cocaine-stoked radio babbler who convinced tens of thousands of gullible chumps that mass shootings, as...

Bigger and bigger SUVs, pickups are outgrowing home garages, public parking spaces — USA Today didn’t really need to tell us. We can look around and see it, especially here in the suburbs. Those glossy metal eyesores are everywhere. How big is too big? Are we totally blind to seeing how ludicrous these monstrosities are?...

We were just talking about the return of con artist evangelist Jim Bakker–and now he’s using his show and website to sell a fake “cure” for coronavirus. A woman named Sherill Sellmann who likes to call herself a doctor–she isn’t–suggested on Jim Bakker’s show that a product sold on Bakker’s website might be effective at...