Link round-up for 8 March 2020

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week.

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Faces, faces everywhere!

There are some wise guys in offices.

That's too drunk.

Surprise!

This is not the future of fashion.

Look, but don't touch.

The romance/porn genre has finally gone completely bonkers.

Don't you hate seeing a brawl on the subway?

Waterbeads are apparently a weapon of mass destruction.

Here's a true tiny house -- a rather spooky one.

Meet Matt Gaetz, the latest loony Florida Republican.

People used to love maps of Hell (found via Mendip).

Mad Mike Hughes failed to prove that the Earth is flat.

John Oliver is in fine form on the coronavirus outbreak.  Here's the full version of that Vietnamese song.

Some nice sunrise photos here.

Wingnuts don't get to define "socialist".

This is "sea glass" (I suspect a lot of it is bits of man-made glass objects, heavily worn down).

She isn't nostalgic, but still.....

Christians are protected from the "Satanic" coronavirus -- if they pay their tithes.

Lo Imprescindible and Michael in Norfolk assess the impact of Buttigieg's campaign.  We'll probably be seeing more of him in the years to come.

Bertrand Russell got it right about religion.

Sage is of Satan, apparently.

Jim Bakker's latest scam has run into a snag.

Sometimes compromise is impossible -- and the wrong side is being asked to compromise.

No, Romney is not a good guy (found via Hackwhackers).

This is the wrong kind of "innovative and dynamic" company.

We need to be honest about the biggest threat to freedom in the US.

This asshole was lucky he only got kicked out.

Some Catholic hierarchs encourage believers to bathe in filthy water because of medieval superstition.  But others are more realistic.

Science wins one in Maine.

With religious fanatics, even friendship is phony.

Why are so many Christians fascinated by Hell?

Trump has no clue about vaccine development, or viruses, or much of anything.  His stupidity paved the way for the coronavirus, almost as if he were on the virus's side.

High-school students do not have a legal right to privacy from the opposite sex in restrooms, lockers, and showers, according to this judge.

Yes, protect American troops, but first protect Trump's narrative (found via Hackwhackers).

Most Democrats don't want a revolution, they just want Trump out.

If only this man who was a fundamentalist for half a century would just read the Bible -- oh, wait.

Our country's lack of policy on paid sick time makes us especially vulnerable to the coronavirus.  How many people serving you are working sick?

A hard-line Catholic site tries to make excuses for medieval anti-Semitism.  Yes, really.  In 2020.

No, the coronavirus is not an escaped bio-weapon.

Don't invest in fossil fuels.

Trump will stop at nothing to silence experts on the coronavirus (found via Fair and Unbalanced).  We need to understand how it spreads.

Small farmers are turning to a new cash crop -- solar panels.

This once, the tables were turned on the bullies.

Germany cracks down on the anti-vax insanity.

Italy is shutting down schools due to the coronavirus.

Yes, this is looking like a pandemic.

AO3 has truly arrived -- the Chinese regime is censoring it.

Common humanity trumps religious bigotry in Kenya.

Democratic turnout surged massively on Super Tuesday -- but not among younger voters.

Texas polling-place closures caused long lines in minority areas, though extra voting machines helped a little.  But many were determined to vote regardless.

Vixen Strangely looks at the vanishing chance for a woman president this time around.

The enemy is determined to fight -- we must be also.

"Vote blue no matter who" applies to everyone (found via MBRU at Crooks and Liars).

Colbert looks at Warren's withdrawal.  One Warren supporter embraces Biden.

Russian trolls are already targeting progressives.

Take the money and do the right thing anyway.

Here's why Biden is winning.  If that's too long to read, here it is in one cartoon (found via Hackwhackers).

This primary season, thuggery backfired.

Texas suburbia is gradually turning the state blue.

[1,144 days down, 318 to go until the inauguration of a real President.]