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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.)
Continue reading Every thing that creepeth upon the earth: We make our first appearance
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: Desperate for medical equipment, states encounter a beleaguered national stockpile] This story buries the lede a bit, offering statistical support to a narrative that’s already evident by listening to Trump, i.e., the federal government is playing favorites between the states, offering stronger support to states that are key to Trump’s reelection. Continue reading Trump playing politics with a stockpile of equipment states desperately need Advertisement
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.)
Continue reading The stars at night are big and bright, on the fourth day of Creation!
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.)
Continue reading 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? 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. Continue reading Is the pandemic right out of the Bible? Maybe we ought to, you know, read this thing
[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.” Continue reading The Right shifts from ‘it’s a real crisis’ to ‘let grandpa die for the economy’ almost overnight
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. Continue reading Yes, we need to move on, but never forget that Fox News has been a public health menace
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. Continue reading Kenyan white giraffes killed by poachers in latest confirmation that humans suck
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. Continue reading 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… 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. Continue reading At what point does not testing for a known pandemic amount to gross negligence?
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