Odds and Ends — 5 June 2021
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
If Covid Did Escape From a Wuhan Lab, Brace Yourself: The world’s anger will be terrible to behold.
Republicans dive into politically fraught push for Covid's origin story
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
General Mills cuts jobs, reshapes itself to prepare for post-pandemic change in eating
Money Reimagined: The Power of Community
Bitcoin bulls give ‘conservative’ 10-year estimate for hyperbitcoinization to hit
Politics:
Trump is reportedly 'trying hard to recruit' supporters to his baseless August reinstatement theory
Trump’s Planned ‘Reinstatement’ Is No Joke
Who would have guessed it? Rioter Who Called Lawmakers Pedophiles Is a Pedophile
Putin Criticizes U.S. Prosecution of Rioters
Netanyahu Suggests He’s Being ‘Overthrown’
Israel Could Be About to Get the World’s Weirdest Government
USA Today fights subpoena aimed at readers of Florida FBI shooting story
Believing pre-Trump GOP will return is “fantasy”
Chinese Billionaire Hosts Trump Extremist Folk Revival
When Mike Flynn took the stage on Wednesday at the World Trade Center, he took the opportunity to extol two things that did not exist: one is Trump’s victory in last year’s election, and the other is an unborn country called the New Federal State of China.
Serendipity:
A Fossil Fuel Industry Under Fire. Will it Last?
Another Master and Commander movie is finally on the way
Looking forward to that. The earlier one was a great experience. Crowe was good, but I could see an installment working well for any number of younger action stars.