Today, I'll just borrow from traditional sources.  From the  New York Times : Russia’s Victory Day, celebrating the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany, is May 9. Western officials   worry Vladimir Putin may exploit it to intensify attacks .   (May 9 is this coming Monday.) Trying to tame inflation, the Fed approved its   biggest interest rate increase since 2000 . Tucker, Thiel, Trump: How J.D. Vance   won Ohio’s Republican Senate primary . About Vance's victory, many think, aha, Trump is still very influential, and will make a huge difference in the upcoming November mid-term elections.   Nope, what will happen is that a small percentage of Republicans will be so negatively effected by this Trump-effect that they will skip voting, and a small percentage of Independents will vote for the Democratic opponent.   This differential will in several elections only favor the Democrat.   I suspect Democrats will end up after the 2022 general election with greater than their  current majo

  I'll get  to the pizza part later, but will begin with this pandemic, using a few graphics from the morning   New York Times : If you've forgotten how to read graphs, the results are clear.  Those states voting for Donald Trump are killing themselves by avoiding being vaccinated.  How serious is this?  Almost a factor of 5. Further from the  NYT : Since Delta began circulating widely in the U.S., Covid has exacted a horrific death toll on red America: In counties where Donald Trump received at least 70 percent of the vote, the virus has killed about 47 out of every 100,000 people since the end of June,   according to Charles Gaba,   a health care analyst. In counties where Trump won less than 32 percent of the vote, the number is about 10 out of 100,000 . How do these numbers compare with the world in deaths/100,000 population? U.S.  21 Hawaii  and Vermont  5  ( lowest in  nation--yet, Hawaii's governor still refuses to allow spectators at football games) Mississippi  3

The world is into our 5th wave of COVID-19 deaths, and perhaps 6th, if you count two in that middle wave  Note, however, that there seems to be a definite decline of new deaths in our current surge: However, if you look closely at the  Worldometer  data: The USA yesterday dwarfed other countries in new cases with 171,125 and new deaths with 1761. India and the UK were at around 37,000. Russia had the second most new deaths with 789 and Mexico was next with 730. Florida had the most new cases in the country with 17,854, but did not report how many new deaths they had.   Texas had 17,208 new cases and 412 new deaths, the most in the nation, if higher than Florida.  This rate is 14 new deaths/million population. The world new deaths/million yesterday was around 1.0.  India was only at 0.2/million. Russia had 5.4 new deaths/million. Hawaii had 5.8 new deaths/million, higher than Russia, which yesterday had the second-most new deaths in the world. What is wrong with the USA??? Petite Syrah