A Theft By Any Other Name
Over at The Intercept, Lee Fang complains that former Governor and Presidential candidate Howard Dean is working for the pharmaceutical lobby to discourage President Biden from giving away COVID-19 vaccine rights: Howard Dean, the former progressive champion, is calling on President Joe Biden to reject a special intellectual property waiver that would allow low-cost, generic… Read more
Onslaught!
Things have been looking pretty good for my immune system since I last checked in. Those pesky spike proteins seem to have gone away, and my immune system is presumably standing down, tapering off the number of anti-spike antibodies in my system. It will leave a few of them around, just in case, but for… Read more
Invaders v.s. Antibodies: Dawn of Immunity
My wife and I got our first dose of the Pfizer vaccine about a week and a half ago. According to the Phase 3 trial results, enough time has now passed since the first dose for vaccinated people’s incidence of symptomatic COVID-19 to begin diverging from the unvaccinated population. I don’t feel any different, but… Read more
Creepy. Every. Time.
It seems like just an ordinary commercial use of a pop song — “Opportunities” by Pet Shop Boys — until that thing starts singing… Read more
The First Step Back Toward Normal
Classical liberalism, criminal laws, the war on drugs, economics, free speech, technology, photography, sex work, cats, and whatever else comes to mind.