Fruit before man: The Creation gets this much right, at least

Australian fires. African locusts. Worldwide plague. Do we live in Biblical times or what? If the world really is ending, we thought it was time to prepare properly for Armageddon. By, you know, reading the damn thing. The Bible, that is. (Go back to the beginning here.)

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Is the pandemic right out of the Bible? Maybe we ought to, you know, read this thing

Australian fires. African locusts. Worldwide plague. Do we live in Biblical times or what? And with preachers from one end of the globe to the other squawking that the coronavirus is right out of the Bible and that we should all be preparing for the end of the world, and with many of us bored out of our minds sitting at home with the kids out of school and even a trip to the corner grocery feeling like the Apocalypse, we thought it was time to prepare properly for Armageddon.

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The Right shifts from ‘it’s a real crisis’ to ‘let grandpa die for the economy’ almost overnight

[Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick]

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this article: Texas Lt. Gov.: Grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy]

Over the weekend the discourse on the Right coldly shifted from “Yes, we finally agree this is pretty serious” to “Y’know, the elderly are gonna die soon anyway and I was hoping my 401K would be around longer.”

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Yes, we need to move on, but never forget that Fox News has been a public health menace

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

This video captures Fox News’ 180 degree turn, explained in a minute and a half of perfectly distilled cognitive dissonance.

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Kenyan white giraffes killed by poachers in latest confirmation that humans suck

On Tuesday March 10 the Ishaqbini-Hirola Community Conservancy of Garissa county in eastern Kenya posted the sad news that two of their three white giraffes had been found dead.

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Will it take Italy’s disaster before Americans stop blaming the media for coronavirus?

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

I’m seeing a lot of people whining about media overreaction, evidently believing that this is an overblown overreaction to a bad strain of flu. Well, I’ve read a lot of stuff and can do math and these takes, which the president himself has been floating, are dangerously ignorant. Dr. Drew Pinsky is not a legitimate health official.

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At what point does not testing for a known pandemic amount to gross negligence?

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

As of March 8, the CDC had only administered 1,707 coronavirus tests, that low figure rationalized by the idea that containment is still possible — simply test and isolate only those who had traveled between China or had been exposed to someone verified to have contracted the virus.

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Keith Raniere asks for a new trial, claims witnesses lied about planning lawsuit

[Judge Garaufis and Keith Raniere]

Convicted Nxivm leader Keith Raniere filed a motion for a new trial today, saying that some of the witnesses against him in last year’s federal prosecution committed perjury during their testimony.

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Elected officials self-quarantine after treating the coronavirus as a hoax

[A stunt that didn’t age well.]

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

A week ago the ultra-conservative CPAC conference took place, the day after Trump called the novel coronavirus a “hoax.” One of the CPAC attendees evidently had the virus and came into contact with a number of elected officials, including Ted Cruz, Doug Collins, Matt Gaetz, and Paul Gosar, who are all self-quarantining. Gaetz was on a plane with Trump earlier today.

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It’s hard to explain voter rejection of Elizabeth Warren without considering gender

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

I’m going to try and not make this about gender, but it’s hard to explain the electorate’s rejection of Elizabeth Warren without at least conceding the part it played.

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Fruit before man: The Creation gets this much right, at least

Is the pandemic right out of the Bible? Maybe we ought to, you know, read this thing

The Right shifts from ‘it’s a real crisis’ to ‘let grandpa die for the economy’ almost overnight

Yes, we need to move on, but never forget that Fox News has been a public health menace

Kenyan white giraffes killed by poachers in latest confirmation that humans suck

Will it take Italy’s disaster before Americans stop blaming the media for coronavirus?

At what point does not testing for a known pandemic amount to gross negligence?

Keith Raniere asks for a new trial, claims witnesses lied about planning lawsuit

Elected officials self-quarantine after treating the coronavirus as a hoax

It’s hard to explain voter rejection of Elizabeth Warren without considering gender

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