Seattle NPR Station Says It Will No Longer Carry Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Briefings Live Because Of Misinformation
Rachel Maddow speaks at Harvard’s JFK Forum
Making a decision to protect their listeners from dangerous levels of baldfaced lies emanating from the White House, the NPR affiliate in Seattle, Washington has elected to stop airing Trump’s coronavirus briefings live. Perhaps they’ll take up Rachel Maddow’s suggestion, which I paraphrase, “Tape them and fact-check them. If he happens to say something truthful, you can always air whatever truth he told at that point.” (more…)
Today’s the birthday of Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor. After quite a few fatalistic posts here at 2GreenEnergy recently, I though I’d offer the quote for which he’s best remembered: 
From today’s Daily Stoic:
If these times were the plot line of a movie and not a global catastrophe, the entire audience would be on the edge of their seats, desperate to learn not only how it ends, but “who did it.” Take the implosion of the United States, where the most powerful country in Earth has become a bunch of greedy, cruel, racist, science-denying, criminal thugs. The decline of moral standards has been so precipitous that it’s hard to believe that it didn’t have a cause. 
I used to help my daughter with her math, and so when the coronavirus hit the news, it gave me the opportunity to apply some of this stuff. I asked her, “What is the doubling time of the virus, given that the number of cases in the U.S. went from about 49,500 yesterday to about 60,600 today?” We worked it through as follows: 
A reader, “Maria,” and I are having a conversation that may be of interest.
Here’s an excellent piece on the 
I had to laugh when I came across the meme here. Of course Trump hasn’t said a kind or empathetic word; he doesn’t have those emotions anywhere in his personality.
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