Least publicized symptom of COVID-19/coronavirus/Chinese virus/Wuhan virus/$nvirus - extreme cabin fever. I feel your pain. Or that might just be the damned chemtrails again.

On the contrary - this seems like some very clever people are looking into potential ways to mitigate a disaster that your run-of-the-mill "patent it and make trillions" pharmaceutical-industry-leading sociopath might gloss over as unprofitable and so therefor not worth pursuing.

Also, I think you meant, "their car".

I'm from the South. Pretty sure he meant "that there car."

They'd get paid in ordnance. Only targeted explosive ordnance, if they're lucky. The 600 pound gorilla may be poor on paper, but he'll still flatten your ass if you piss him off enough.

Where do you get Basset Hound? My favorite thing about AmiMoJo is that his user name always brings to mind the image of Mojo Jojo from Powerpuff Girls. He and I may not see eye to eye on much of anything, but I always get a kick out of seeing his username and getting that happy little nostalgic brain tickle.

It may be helpful for people to remember that (traditional tank) water heaters provide a ready source of many gallons of potable water in an emergency. Mine holds a mere 50G, but that's enough to keep my family safely hydrated for a good long while. If it's in a location where you can't extract the content from a faucet in the absence of supply side pressure, they all have a drain fitting near the bottom usually threaded for garden hose connection. I have a hard time justifying stockpiling water bottles with 50 gallons of the stuff just sitting there.

"a vertical 2D plane"

Either you're building a wall in flatland or you have astonishingly advanced corpse-smushing technology. Either way, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Don't need a snake bat - I already have an awesome rat stick.

Sounds like a university with a hospital/health system.

Or reindeer husbandry.

I remember being required to purchase a copy of "The Turner Diaries" for a sociology course in college circa 1990-something. I wonder if any university bookstore in the US would fill that order today, or if I would just be immediately expelled.

Back in the 90s traffic on I95 between Richmond and DC was frequently in the 80-90MPH range over in the far left lanes. I always attributed it to diplomats and spooky types headed for Quantico and further North into the swamp. But it made that chunk of 95 go by real quick. These days, and for at least the past decade, once you're within 10 miles of Fredericksburg you're lucky to be above zero MPH. I like to make a game of it. How many minutes (or frequently, hours) can you see the "Potomac Mills" sign? Less than an hour is a win.

My strategy is "let's get seated before the vodka completely dissolves that Xanax and I can't stand up anymore."

"Weaving in your lane" should be perfectly acceptable *within your lane*. Vehicles are entitled to use the full lane they occupy provided no traffic infractions are committed.

Incidentally this is also why bicyclists should not be permitted to ride two or more abreast. Each one is entitled to use of the full lane they occupy, so when riding two or more abreast their lane entitlements conflict. Of course the entitlement of the Spandex Menace outpaces that of the average billionaire's teenage daughter, so I'm sure they have a way to argue that their vehicles are special and above the rules.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me --> https://www.npr.org/podcasts/3...

Yeah, it's NPR, and the political bent is obvious (and obviously not up everyone's alley). But it's a solid ~50 minutes of news-based entertainment every week. Some of the guest appearances are pretty fantastic.