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The Whiteboard and Doc's forum are among the best things on the web. Aside from all the tremendous mad genius stuff, Doc does a great job of keeping it a space where people with obviously different political views can discuss and joke about the interests they have in common.

Bad things do happen in Philadelphia. I mean, some of those people put Cheez-Wiz on steak sandwiches, fergodssake! But there was no rampant election fraud. All sides were watching. Hard. The vote counting was livestreamed. The New York Times contacted the top election officials in all 50 states. Obv...

First one was the best. Might steal some.

Disappointed he stopped at ONE elephant joke, though.

A lot of my furniture and some of my kitchen gear originally was my great-grandmother's. My dad said that his mom's family never threw away a single damned thing in 60 years--except his antique marbles and baseball cards.

My dad got hold of a Mosin Nagant in the late 60s or early 70s, intending to use it for a deer rifle. It turned out not to be satisfactory, maybe because he had some modifications made that he said decades later were ill advised, but I don't know about the details of that. I know he had a handle wel...

I haven't heard about the lockdown protesters wearing masks. Around here, they were very pointedly not wearing masks. Myself, I have not attended any rallies or protests or dancing in the streets, much as I'd like to. Because I believe in epidemiology, and the epidemic is getting worse, fast, worldw...

Dave wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:37 pmBut, take heart - no matter how painful and turbulent things are right now, they're nowhere near as bad as the futures portrayed in those movies.

I'm afraid, Dave.

Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.

Did that a few weeks ago. Thanks!

Good to see you, GM!

I hadn't heard about Connery, so just went and read his obit. Pretty great. He credits reading for giving him the chops. And like Houdini and my mom's father, he died on Halloween. 8-) Don't think I have ever yet seen a Bond movie all the way through. But Hunt for Red October is my second-favorite s...

The more they test people for SARS-CoV-2 and antibodies to it, the more cases they find. Cases, infections, and deaths are not overreported. The more serious question is how much they are underreported. We are in another big surge. I am fearful for the people in my home county, because most of them ...

We have a problem in this county with trucks destroying covered bridges. Inadequately trained drivers armed with GPS take shortcuts, and ignore or do not understand the maximum clearance signs. It would be cheaper for the state and the townships to replace them with modern concrete bridges, but loca...

Sounds as if you have an infestation of Mus ornithoptris (the North American hovering mouse). I decided to look that up, and found out that MUS is (in addition to the little rodents) the Memphis University School, a private high school. And the MUS's teams are nicknamed the... ... owls. THIS IS JUS...

Latest word, from an on-going study in the UK, is that the antibodies don't last - 6% of the people tested June showed antibodies, but the latest tests show only 3.4% {i think that's the umber - something on that close order. This suggests that "herd immunity" may be not a thing that's go...

Latest word, from an on-going study in the UK, is that the antibodies don't last - 6% of the people tested June showed antibodies, but the latest tests show only 3.4% {i think that's the umber - something on that close order. This suggests that "herd immunity" may be not a thing that's go...

Atomic, the New York Times posts a lot of ongoing aggregated statistics for the entire United States, county by county. My brother subscribes to the online Washington Post , and I believe they do, too. NYT also posts the results of a whole lot of polls daily, with notes about who's conducting them a...

I'm sure everyone has seen by now that new infection rates in the U.S. are at a new peak, with >85,000 new cases reported on Friday. Low-population areas like the Dakotas are being slammed with their first wave now. NYT reported on Friday that North Dakota now has the highest rate of infection in th...

Not just you. No new post overnight.

I caught the squirrel, which promptly bit me! (I know, right? The nerve of that squirrel...) As a reflex to it biting me, my hand squeezed... So much for the squirrel... it won't ever run around kitchen back rooms again... and I had to get a tetanus shot, just in case, because I couldn't remember w...

It's easy to criticize, it's harder to come up with a better plan... To say that there is no national leadership on COVID-19 is foolish and absolutely false. One may not agree with what President Trump has done, but one cannot say there is no leadership or that he's doing nothing. There were well e...

Note please that jerks signing false names to an open document does not diminish the reasoning and authority of the original document and those who created and signed it, nor the further signers who are legitimate experts in the field. Yes, it does. Because serious arguments among bioscience resear...