GMcGath @[email protected]

Periodically review your browser permissions. I just discovered that a site I didn't recognize had access to my camera and microphone, as well as another which I no longer use.

Nothing is 100% safe. You could be hit by a car while going to get a shot. Here's an article that puts vaccine risks in perspective. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/is-the-covid19-vaccine-safe

In spite of persistent stereotyping, homeschooling isn't just for whites. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/07/27/pandemic-homeschool-black-asian-hispanic-families/

David Friedman on how to lie while telling the truth. His blog is almost always worth reading. http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2021/07/how-to-lie-while-telling-truth-this.html

A new mural in Portsmouth, NH commemorates Ruth Blay, who was executed in colonial New Hampshire for the capital crime of concealing her child. https://www.concordmonitor.com/The-last-woman-hanged-in-NH-Portsmouth-mural-honors-Ruth-Blay---17-more-murals-planned-41649341

Sometimes I wonder about half-forgotten fads of the past. Have teachers stopped trying to destroy their students' lives by reporting them to the police for sexting, or is it just not news any more?

In New Hampshire, the vaccination rate is so high and the COVID rate so low that it's easy to forget about states where lots of people are determined to get sick. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-hampshire/

Interesting detail in this Baltimore Sun article on the Jan. 6 riot: It gives the cause of death, at least in broad terms, for everyone who died in connection with the event _except_ Brian Sicknick. Major news outlets spread the claim that he died of being hit by a thrown fire extinguisher, but it was ultimately ruled he died of natural causes. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nancy-pelosi-liz-cheny-capitol-attack-probe-20210723-cp6eu3dqujb43ihgw27mz5f23a-story.html#nt=latestnews

The Qualified Immunity Waltz, on SoundCloud. https://soundcloud.com/garym03062/the-qualified-immunity-waltz

Cancel culture meets COVID in Australia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/23/covid-australia-lockdown-shaming/

Police grab people and seize vehicles for voluntary interactions that harm no one. The NY Post brags that it encouraged these attacks, claims without evidence that the women arrested are "likely trafficking victims" so being prosecuted is for their own good. https://nypost.com/2021/07/23/nypd-cracks-down-on-brooklyn-prostitution-market-after-post-expose/

Since Twitter has no software problems at all, its developers were so bored that they changed the login screen to look unfamiliar and break password managers.

Fewer than half the people who go outside during thunderstorms get struck by lightning.

WaPo's instructions to its headline writers must be "Spread panic!"

The headline: "Less than 1% of fully vaccinated people in D.C. have contracted coronavirus." Anything close to 1% would mean the vaccine is much less effective than previously believed. But the article begins: "Two hundred of the more than 375,000 D.C. residents who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus have tested positive." 1% would be 3,750. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/covid-dc-maryland-virginia-breakthrough/2021/07/22/fd2954a6-eaf6-11eb-8950-d73b3e93ff7f_story.html

Racial determinism is the creationism of the left. https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/state/guidelines-seek-to-clarify-ban-on-discriminatory-teaching/article_198f49cf-bdda-5303-954b-cf1b15a8079d.html?block_id=868819