I Got Plenty of Nothing

Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'

And nuttin's plenty for me
I got no car, got no mule
I got no misery
De folks wid plenty o' plenty
Got a lock on de door
'Fraid somebody's a-goin' to rob 'em
While dey's out a-makin' more
What for?

Argentina dismisses $324 billion debt

The country currently owes $324 billion, or 90% of its GDP. It had been in the process of renegotiating its crippling debt when the coronavirus pandemic hit, slamming the country's economy even further. But life in Buenos Aires goes on, Army kitchens are distributing free food, there are no demonstrations on the street, no protests against the IMF and the vultures, people takes the crisis as a natural phase of Argentine's fifty years decadence.

Regarding the wiki's ranking of foreign debts, Argentina is only in the 33rd position and relative to the GNP it is almost solvent. 33 countries are more indebted then Argentina, in the first place, the United States, and in the second, Britain. Paradoxically, they feel none of the anxiety and misery of Argentina.

Could it be that default is a state of mind? 

Scholar's rocks

Chinese literati have a long history of appreciating small ornamental rocks and collecting them as accoutrements, but these objects, which are known as "scholars' rocks".

Is Trump following a Haredi Doctor's Advice?

Dr Zev Zelenko's COVI-19 Treatment

This Haredi Doctor recommends using the malaria remedy for COVID-19 but in the very early stage of the infection. It makes sense to me. He is being interviewed from a moving car. 

Hard Truths

Donald J. Trump

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Spokesman speaks stupidly on behalf of China, trying desperately to deflect the pain and carnage that their country spread throughout the world. Its disinformation and propaganda attack on the United States and Europe is a disgrace....

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....It all comes from the top. They could have easily stopped the plague, but they didn’t!

Congress of the Communist Party of China

Big Congress in Beijing  Xi defends China's actions during the epidemic.  He seems to me worried in the official video clip. He is not enjoying Trump's campaign blaming Commuist China for America's suffering. 

I am re-reading Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times. Suddenly realized that it is a satire of China ("The Agatean Empire") as it meets the "Barbarian Heroes" led by Ghengis Cohen from  the city-state of Ankh-Morpork (London, of course).

America Breaking Conventions

The Afro-American lady pictured is the elected Major of the City of Chicago.

I am anti-diluvian. Decent people used to dress and cross their legs according the conventions of their gender and social status. Those who violated the conventions were not allowed to enter the school, the restaurant or the theater. I despised the hypocricy of conventions, yet feel uneasy with the butch African governing Chicago.