Wikipedia is actually debating whether or not to delete references to the 1918 Spanish flu. Now about the WuhanChineseAsianCorona virus…
“It’s a funny thing… After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that that what the west needed was more socialism.” –Milton Friedman 1993.
I had something similar that shot plastic pellets. Since there were no refills, you had to chase them down after spraying the playground. (Not sure, but I think the bad guy is Otis from The Andy Griffith Show.)
Serbian trio featuring Maestro Stefan Ilic on fiddle [via].
More tractor? Don’t know anything about this one except it’s an Austrian Steyr 80A Sincrobulli.
Robbie Robertson remakes The Band‘s classic The Weight, with performers from around the world. That song is one of my all-time favorites.
We have some tough times ahead, and the best thing to do is to ignore the newsmedia fear-mongers. The biggest threat is not the Wuhan v-word, but the overwrought government reactions to it, so work with what you got until the storm passes… and it will.
