Voting By Mail
Here’s the latest in a series I call “Analogies from Hell.”
Apparently, until 53 years ago, a nine-year-old kid or a recently released murderer could buy a gun by mail, and Congress finally decided that this might not be a good idea. It’s possible they were mainly Democrats, but it’s hard to believe there wasn’t bipartisan support for the new law. Keep in mind the political zeitgeist in 1968; this was long before Republicans lost their minds.
Precisely what this has to do with voting remains to be seen. As shown below, all 50 states allow voting by mail (though seven require an excuse). As we’ve seen consistently through this torturous process called the Big Lie, there is very little voter fraud.
I just got this, with the question: Would you join President Trump’s Social Media? 
Here’s a survey on patriotism being sent around by the 
Well, let’s put it like this: Big Tech censors disinformation. If you’re a person with conservative opinions and you’re publishing bull****, that’s fine. If you want to say the election was stolen, the Earth is flat, treat the pandemic with bleach, or the vaccination is deadly, that’s going to go away.
The meme here came from a reader. My response:
We often discuss the second law of thermodynamics here, as it’s the reason that perpetual motion machines are impossible. It’s why I summarily reject the business plan submissions I receive from frauds and/or crackpots. Anytime energy is transferred from one form to another, there are losses. Said differently, no process has 100% efficiency. 
Question: What are the two most obvious problems with the logic in the meme here?
Does it comes as a shock that Mississippi leads the union in COVID-19 deaths per capita?
This is the first time I’ve come across the adjectival form of “Lucifer.” Usually it’s satanic, diabolical, or even Mephistophelian.
Commissioner of Broward County, Florida, Beam Furr, was one of my best friends in college (1973-1977).
