Comments on: The Playbook, ignored. https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:51:21 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44169 DanS Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:12:38 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44169 Going against meant public ridicule and embarrassment. Later it meant your life and the lives of just about everyone you knew. When it becomes a necessity, public intervention is anything but easy. Come packin'. Going against meant public ridicule and embarrassment. Later it meant your life and the lives of just about everyone you knew.

When it becomes a necessity, public intervention is anything but easy. Come packin’.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44167 podrock Fri, 27 Mar 2020 03:52:08 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44167 Just a short one Just a short one

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44165 podrock Fri, 27 Mar 2020 03:48:32 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44165 Of "A Band of Brothers" is a devastating examination of the Good German. Of “A Band of Brothers” is a devastating examination of the Good German.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44164 podrock Fri, 27 Mar 2020 02:06:37 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44164 He's my favorite curmudgeon on twitter He’s my favorite curmudgeon on twitter

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44163 RL Fri, 27 Mar 2020 01:13:35 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44163 Arrgh nevermind uploaded wrong one Arrgh nevermind uploaded wrong one

]]> By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44162 Robert Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:09:29 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44162 That was a magnificent rant. In fact, I think RL could retire now, now that it's all been said. "Rapture monkeys". Gotta love it. <pollyana_mode><span style="color:#FF00FF">To be brutally honest, we seem poised for a painfully direct demonstration of evolution in action. Respect and trust in science, and expertise and facts, is about to become a matter of far more than partisan bickering. It'll become a matter of life-or-death, and if something good is to come of this, maybe the surviving Trumpists and Rapture monkeys will see the light.</span></pollyana_mode></span> Nah. That was a magnificent rant. In fact, I think RL could retire now, now that it’s all been said.

“Rapture monkeys”. Gotta love it.

<pollyana_mode>To be brutally honest, we seem poised for a painfully direct demonstration of evolution in action. Respect and trust in science, and expertise and facts, is about to become a matter of far more than partisan bickering. It’ll become a matter of life-or-death, and if something good is to come of this, maybe the surviving Trumpists and Rapture monkeys will see the light.</pollyana_mode>

Nah.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44161 podrock Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:34:39 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44161 http://www.stonekettle.com/2020/03/fever.html http://www.stonekettle.com/2020/03/fever.html

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44159 DanS Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:50:27 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44159 You know, the entire Kester family was taken away today. ...Oh, and don't forget the bread and sauerbraten at the market on your way home. You know, the entire Kester family was taken away today.
…Oh, and don’t forget the bread and sauerbraten at the market on your way home.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44158 podrock Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:43:12 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44158 One third attacks another third and one third says nothing. One third attacks another third and one third says nothing.

]]> By: hank https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/26/the-playbook-ignored/#comment-44157 hank Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:37:07 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80360#comment-44157 Not even a majority of them were to blame. But there were still more than enough of them. Not even a majority of them were to blame.

But there were still more than enough of them.

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