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Selective Science, Cognitive Dissonance and the Covid “Disruptive Disease”

Selective Science, Cognitive Dissonance and the Covid “Disruptive Disease”

Just like a “disruptive disease” can be exploited to wreck controlled chaos on a society, soon, the tide turns and the cognitive dissonance awakened by an arbitrary double standard of “selective science” comes to pay it’s respects… Can’t say I wasn’t expecting it, can say I was certainly looking forward to it… the last LA County swap meet to close was also the first swap meet to reopen since the lockdown/shelter in place began last March! Yes!! One small step…

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The Covid Silver Lining that kicked “Stop the Steal” in the Ass?!

The Covid Silver Lining that kicked “Stop the Steal” in the Ass?!

How’s this for an epiphany… The Universe Conspires to Dump Trump! Could it be that the disruptive, “deadly disease”, stopped another four years of Trump/Miller/Murdoch/Mercer hate and social/political divisiveness in it’s friggin tracks? Heh heh heh… Allow me to explain… As I was watching the “Stop The Steal”/ Senate Confirmation protest live for a full three hours last week, with the TV cameras constantly alternating from the rioters/protesters crowded on the Capitol steps to the plain vanilla protesters milling around…

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Lives or Livelihoods… The Unfolding Corona Conundrum

Lives or Livelihoods… The Unfolding Corona Conundrum

Sometimes I hate being the Devil’s Advocate… heh heh heh. Concerning the Corona Virus… what’s more important, lives or livelihoods? That seems to depend on who you ask. As the corona smoke slowly begins to settle, as the US covid death count passes 200,000 and begins to slow down and taper off, as the data on the number of permanently closed, family owned and operated Main Street and corporate businesses trickles in and what that reality means to our families…

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Debt Forgiveness or Quantitative Easing? Making America Work Again!

Debt Forgiveness or Quantitative Easing? Making America Work Again!

Well, here we are… finally having to confront the next economic phase of this slow moving Corona Chaos entitled “Life After Magic Money Quantitive Easing – Brutal Austerity or Universal Debt Forgiveness?”. Did you enjoy the $600 per week unemployment/self-employment assistance? I know I did, even though I seem to have fallen through EDD/PUA recertification cracks at the beginning of May. And all my fellow vintage vendors, ie, my fellow canaries at the bottom of the discretionary spending economic coal…

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