Dear Y'all, From Matt

This excellent piece on how the One Percent is winning big on the rest of our backs during the COVID-19 practice is well worth a read. They screamed and wailed about Sanders or Warren possible implementing a very slight tax increase against unearned income like this when they should be counting their blessings we're not sharpening axes and setting up chopping blocks. Also, Elon Musk is a dickhead . I don't know how many times he has to tell us before it sinks in. He's not going to give you any money. Sid Meier took a whack at XCOM: Chimera Squad . South Florida Coronavirus Update . Nation-wide, a company called Gilead (which isn't worrisome at all) has some promising news on a drug to combat the virus, stirring up the people who were better on fish tank cleaner. Rich folks are planning on keeping their kids at home even if schools reopen and everyone else can go screw. Finally, the incredibly flawed and abused PPP program designed to help small businesses but ...

 So, I let the "Daily Links" thing fall to the wayside. To be fair, I haven't really come across any interesting links the last couple of days. I am going to post this link , mainly because it'll come in useful tomorrow when I get around to writing the COVID-19 update for Work. This one, too . These two will be for the WordPress site if I get around to doing the News tomorrow.    "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."    That's attributed to W.C. Fields, but apparently there's no evidence he did or, indeed, who did. I like it, though. It's a good rule of thumb to live by, especially in this world. One thing W.C. Fields did say "You can't cheat an honest man", and this dictum works with the previous. I'm not intentionally, actively trying to cheat anyone, but don't have any sympathy for what happens to anyone who tries.  No, I'm not going to tell how or where or what o...