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“A ginormous nose is a fine thing to have, but when someone drops a slice of ham, it’s these big ears that get the job done right.”

One of my favorite movies is “Pump Up The Volume” – it’s about blogging before WordPress – and this is one of the best lines in the film:

“I can smell a lie like a fart in a car.”

After a solid year of lying about masks – after first lying the other way – the CDC has now tacitly admitted their uselessness in ordinary social encounters: If the other guy’s viral load is high enough and your immunity is low enough, the mask is negligible as protection, where if either of those sine qua non factors is absent, the mask is redundant.

The trick to not getting sick? Stay away from sick people – but don’t be susceptible to illness in the first place.

This was obvious a year ago – or a lifetime ago, for those not born yesterday – so you know the rest of the news is really bad, for the CDC to cop to factual realty.

In other news:

Housing Wire: New home sales battled scorching prices in April.

FEE.org: Why Inflation Is at a 12-year High: It’s all about the money.

Matt Taibbi: Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They’re Agents of It.

Julie Kelly: House Republicans Defy the January 6 Narrative.

Andrea Widburg: Trump needs to do a better job of un-muzzling himself.

Legal Insurrection: California State Board of Ed Dumbing Down K-12 Math Curriculum to Ensure “Equitable Outcomes”. Ants are to have been devoured by Grasshoppers.