U.K. records over 10,000 Covid cases for first time since February.

Delta variant is genuinely pretty bad, but you better believe this is going to be used as the excuse to keep prison countries going.

The answer is vaccination, not lockdown life and prison countries. If we didn’t have vaccines I’d say something else. We’ve been hiding inside for more than a year. Time to end that and let the people who wish to cower inside wailing do that bullshit.

Most people seem to be concerned with being legitimate or being respected.

Mostly, I am concerned with being right. Trader instincts.

I don’t think I will ever understand or be on board with the modern insistence that an artist must be some exemplar of au courant morality and ethics.

I just could not care less what an artist gets up to outside of their work, as it actually relates to the work itself. I expect artists to be boundary-pushing louche louts, anyway. Tends to make them better. I guess this misplaced desire for artists to be saints partially explains why there is so much boring soporific art around lately. Compulsive moralizing never produces anything worth a damn.

E.U. Recommends Opening to Americans to Rescue the Summer.

Open up all prison countries. That’s no way to live.

The Great Unmasking. Most Americans want to go back to normal, but some wish to make permanent the ‘temporary’ COVID controls.

When can we send them away, and how far away can we send them? Elon, you got any rockets ready?