Notes on Grief...

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break..." -- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

What Pandemic?

 "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election..." -- Otto von Bismark

Keep Calling Me Crazy...

 "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed..." -- William Butler Yeats

COVID: The Gift That Keeps on Giving...

 I was going to post some important information for the middle-aged woman this past week, but Julie Burchill stole some of my thunder. I will save my dating tips for the middle-aged female for another time.

Enough is Enough...

No quote today. I'm pissed. Suffer.

Starving the Beast...

 "I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them..." -- Thomas Jefferson

No More Cuomo...

 

"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools..." -- Plato

Notes from the COVID Gulag...

"For, having begun their building of the Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet, and spatter them with tears of blood from it's eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup. And on it will be written "Mystery!"." -- Fyodor Dostoyesvsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

You All Suck (#40 - "The Cure" vs. "A Therapy")

"There are some people in this Age of COVID-19 who, by their very utterances, have become proof that stupid will never be cured, and in doing so, make a very convincing case that in our quest for a cure to COVID-19, they should be rounded up and used as human guinea pigs. This would make them far more useful than their current, self-appointed, role as amateur internet epidemiologist  ..." -- The Overlord

Pandemics and the Perils of Management...

"[T]he conflicts among the groups are real and cannot be eliminated even in the face of a common danger.  In fact, the presence of the common danger is itself a source of new conflicts.  This follows because the groups, from the very status they occupy and functions they fulfill, favor different methods of meeting the danger and of maintaining privilege as against the masses..." -- James Burnham, "The Managerial Revolution"

Dark Clouds and Silver Linings, Part 2 (Even The Plague Had It's Upside)

"Change is the only constant in Life..." -- Heraclitus

Dark Clouds and Silver Linings, Part 1 (What We Have Learned)

Notes from the Wuhan Apocalypse, as viewed from the Death Star orbiting above Sodom-on-The-Hudson.

A Majority of One (Coronavirus and Idiots Edition)

"Panic will kill you -- and make you look like an asshole in the process..." -- David Pedreira, "Gunpowder Moon".

Galactic Housekeeping #8

Just some quick notes:.

Firstly, Mrs. Overlord is in the hospital...again.

They just don't make these Japanese sexbots the way they used to, I'm telling ya!

I Now Know What's Wrong With American Healthcare...

"The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming it is controlled by a secret cabal of it's enemies." -- Robert Conquest

A Majority of One (Cesspool of Consciousness Edition)

"When a great genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift, Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays.

Get Off the Road!

There is nothing quite as frightening as the thought that human beings have been put in control of rolling contraptions of mechanical death...

You All Suck (Exhibit #17 -- There's Never a Gun Around When You Need One)

The Modern Human Being is a walking advertisement for both birth control and retroactive late term abortion...

Stuff in a Hospital...

Mrs. Overlord has contracted pneumonia. Already a dangerous condition, it is even worse for someone who has a respiratory system compromised by muscular dystrophy. Thanks to the good people at New York Presbyterian Hospital (the most awesomest hospital in the Solar System) she is expected to make a full recovery. We thank you for your good thoughts and expressions of support.