Between New York and Georgia, Klansmen and the Ladies of Islam can breath easy

Lock and load, boys — we ride tonight

Cuomo orders New Yorkers to wear face coverings in public

Georgia suspends its current Ku Klux Klan law banning hoods and facemasks

Part of Cuomo’s order is the direction that his citizens can wear “attractive” bandanas. Leaving aside the issue of whether the police and the Karens should be arbitrators of what constitutes “attractive”, there’s the question of where, exactly, people are supposed to find these facemarks and bandannas — facemarks were sold out long ago, and stores are forbidden to sell clothing, so, what? Will (attractive) underwear meet the requirement?

This is exactly my biggest fear for the possibility of recovery

A Venezuelan boy gazes upon his future

Obama: Bernie’s ideas are critical for the rebuilding of our economy

"The ideas he’s championed, the energy and enthusiasm he inspired, especially in young people, will be critical in moving America in a direction of progress and hope, because for the second time in twelve years, we’ll have the incredible task of rebuilding our economy. And to meet the moment, the Democratic Party will have to be bold," Obama declared.

Obama oversaw the slowest recovery in our history; when the Dems regain control, they’ll beat Obama’s record, by far. In fact, I’m not confident that we’ll ever recover, and 2012 will see the start of our permanent decline.

Okay, give up the royal bit, and booze, caffeine and cigarettes, drop your friends, do yoga next to the bitch, but ....

Uh oh; sorry, Megs

Prince Harry has now promised the harridan he’ll quit hunting

I’ve heard that some women marry a man in the hope that they’ll be able to change and shape them into a person more pleasing to them. That rarely works, but obviously, the key is to find moldable clay, known in the trade as a chickenshit wuss.

Who knew this war veteran would be so soft?

Two quick contracts

176 Stanwich Rd

176 Stanwich Road, now asking $2.5 million, down from January’s opening of $2.695, is reported as under contract. Owners bought it for $3.165 in 2015, so this must sting, a little.

24 Sylvan Rd

And 24 Sylvan Road, in Old Greenwich, flew off the market: 7 days to contract. Priced at $3.749 million, purchased for $3.995 in June 2016.

Overreaching?

17 Rustic View Road, which sold last week for $2.155 million (it had started two years ago at $2.985) is back on the market today as a rental, $15,000 per month. I haven’t been inside the house since it was listed a few owners ago, but I do note that it tried for a rental of $9,800 last year and found no takers. Of course, that was in the days before Kung Flu, and we live in a different time today

Got to know when to fold 'em

And Somewhere in the dark the gamblers they broke even

Eight old poker fans dealt a deadly hand

Eight retirees with ties to the Big Apple all contracted the coronavirus during their regular poker nights in Florida — leaving three of them dead, according to a report.

The close-knit group played their last game at a condo in Aventura, a suburb 17 miles north of Miami, on March 21 — with one of them coughing and sniffing, the South Florida Sun Sentinel said.

Within weeks, all eight were stricken by the disease — three of them fatally — and the survivors believe they all became infected during their regular intimate gatherings, they told the paper.

“It’s a tragedy,” Harriet Molko, who thought she too might die during nine days in a hospital, told the paper.

“I don’t know how I made it,” said Molko, whose husband, Ronald Molko, also tested positive. “It’s just a nightmare and I’m trying to get over it.”

The three who died — Marcy Friedman, 94, as well as a couple, Beverly Glass, 84, and Fred Sands, 86 — were all New York natives with pre-existing conditions, the report said.

New Listing on Cognewaugh

76 Cognewaugh Road

76 Cognewaugh Road., $1.625 million. Good looking house in excellent condition, lots of improvements/updates during the sellers’ ownership, on the lower, convenient end of Cognewaugh. I’ve visited the house myself, but it’s interesting to see how homes are being marketed during these crazy days. Rob Johnson of Halstead has done a nice job of presenting it here

God, I hate when the conspiracists are proved right

One of the most disillusioning experiences I’ve had to endure over the past three decades is the slow revelation that some of the whackiest, most paranoid theories of conspiracists are actually true. Yes, the government is tracking our every move. Yes, the government is listening in on and recording our telephone conversations, writings and photographs. Yes, the intelligence agencies are conspiring to cripple a president who threatens them, and so forth. Christ, I’m almost ready to believe that 9/11 was a state-sponsored action. Almost.

Holden has dug up and posted this video, dated October 2014 of far left, Trump-hating Harry Vox (!) reading from, among items, a Rockefeller Foundation blueprint for imposing state control over the world’s population by using a viral pandemic. Everything Vox predicts will happen has happened. He seemed nuts six years ago; today, his rants are actually just a description of current events.

(Related: Raleigh police, after shutting down a protest of the shutdown: “Protesting is a non-essential activity”.

Renting in the (white) elephant graveyard

Ivory columns?

282 Taconic Road has been up for sale since September 2015, when it started at $3.895. No one wants it, even at its latest price of $2.795, but it was offered as a rental, one year, $15,000 per, 24 days ago and has closed at that price.

A friend of mine unloaded this place on these owners for $3.275 in 2004; he did well, but that was then, this is now.

With coffee shops and bars closed, a double shot of reality for undergrads

St. Mary’s College, Indiana: Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

Liberal arts degrees being renamed “non-essential worker degrees”

"We wanted to be a little more honest about what you can expect from a liberal arts program -- sorry, a non-essential worker program," said Charles C. Kettlebrook, Dean of Winstonhamington University in Philadelphia. "Whenever people need to be sent home, to be frank, you'll be the first to go. It will be kind of nice for you, sometimes, actually, since you'll get to stay home and collect a check from the government…."

Truth in advertising: "You'll know right from the get-go that the pottery, French literature, or zero-gravity space station basket weaving classes you're taking are completely useless and non-essential."

But what will happen when the Corona Dole stipends run out? Don’t worry; they’re here to stay.