At next press conference, please ask Trump if he has considered resigning. Repeat until he resigns. #In the past our idiocracy killed people in far-away places. Now as they say, the chickens have come home to roost. Now you can't look the other way.#
Kudlow: "I don't believe anybody could have predicted the exponential rise of this." OK that right there is why you get people who know math and biology to run the response to a pandemic. #
It really should be Cuomo v Trump in the November election, assuming Trump hasn't resigned by then.#
We ought to, instead of talking about how deficient defunct Trump is, talk about the job of POTUS, what his or her responsibilities are, for future reference, so there’s never again a doubt as to whether the incumbent is doing the job.#
I suggest we use the word "trump" (lower case) to refer to what we used to call the Republican Party. Example of usage: "That trump is really corrupt. Yeah they all are."#
Has Trump taken hydroxychloroquine himself? Why not? What has he got to lose?#
Was the Queen's speech timed to coincide with Boris Johnson's hospitalization or was it a chance event?#
My maternal grandfather, Rudy Kiesler, was a bundle of energy. Highly opinionated. Very loud. Didn't spend a lot of time thinking (or so it seemed to me as a child) he just burst into action. #- He was the 13th of 13 children, born in the land between Poland and Germany, sent off to fend for himself as a very young boy. #
- Jewish, he was deported in the first rounds of the Nazi regime, leaving my grandmother and mother behind. Lucie, my grandmother, was Lutheran, blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aryan princess. Why they married is something I never understood. They didn't seem to have anything in common.#
- So the women were left in Germany or Czechoslavakia, I'm not clear on which, and Rudy K was in Brooklyn or Queens, setting up a garment business, which he ran until he had a stroke in the 1970s. With no heir wanting to inherit the business, he sold the company, United Pioneer, to Salant & Salant. But he was always a bundle of energy, until he drifted away in a nursing home and died in the early 90s.#
- He would not have liked this "stay home stay safe" thing. I can't imagine he would have done it. He was the kind of guy who couldn't stand to wait in a line at the World's Fair, so he'd cut in front of the person at the front of the line, and when they complained, he'd ignore them (this actually happened). #
- Here's a picture of his family in Rockaway probably in 1961 or so. #
- He was a legend. Still looms large in my mind. #
- I changed the way tabs work on the Scripting News home page.#
- There are three tabs: Blog, Links and About.#
- When you click on a tab, you are redirected with a url of this form:#
- http://scripting.com/?tab=name#
- Where name is the name of the tab you're going to.#
- That way you always have a link to the tab in the address bar.#
- And the browser's Back button works. #
- It used to do it all with JavaScript without redirecting.#
- It also no longer remembers what tab you had frontmost last time you visited the site. This was always annoying. Not a good heuristic. When I come to scripting.com 99 times out of 100 I want to see the blog. It doesn't matter what I was looking at last time I visited. #
- This was suggested a long time ago, has been on my todo list ever since, and I finally got around to doing it. It's even worse than it appears. 💥#