The Post-Partisan Emporium

We Must Find a Way to Prevent Bill Gates from Preventing the Next Pandemic A book review. eugyppius For days now, I’ve been fighting my way through Bill Gates’s disturbing new book on  How to Prevent the Next Pandemic ,  and I’ve found myself wondering about one question above all: How are we to explain Gates, exactly? I know that for many of you he is a calculating conspiratorial goon. Pretend for a moment that he’s not, though. Imagine, for the sake of argument, that he’s every inch the obtuse, naive and self-important former software developer that he seems to be. How did he get this way, what does he even think he is doing, and what can it mean? Remember that this man has  billions of dollars . A whole world of unusual vices stands open to him: He could hire a mercenary army to invade some country and proclaim himself god-emperor for life. He could retire to a tropical island with his favourite mind-altering substances and a harem of nubile young women. He could do bo...

We Roe, We Wade, We Sink Into Charade Welcome to the new current thing Visceral Adventure The storm that was the Politico SCOTUS leak piece struck the virtual waves splitting the sea of personal, political, and polemic posts. The usual cascade of  war propaganda ,  pronoun updates ,  AOC and Elon flirtations ,  reductionist climate change hot takes , and  high profile covid+ quadruple spiked vaccine promoters  was interrupted and overwhelmingly stifled so that even an acquaintance who had a major personal mental trauma was posting about Judge Alito from their hospital bed. It’s a Monday night, first working day in May at 8:32p when Poltico’s scoop begins to spread through the consciousness of Americans. But by 10:39p, two hours later, protesters were gathering in front of the Supreme Court, signs ready, some hand crafted, some printed, some laminated, chants filling up the air accompanied by the beat of a continuous drum. MeidasTouch.com @MeidasTouch Breaki...