Ya think it's easy?

“Go ahead. Fool around with my food. Find out what happens.”

A beef I’ve had with the internet since there was an internet to have a beef with: Writers don’t write when readers have time to read. Is this classism or cluelessness: Why would the public library be closed on Sunday, the day when taxpayers have time to go there? If you spend too much time thinking about the incongruities of social existence, you could end up a weblogger.

Meanwhile, the only actual real estate news I have to offer this morning is my own scoop: Zillow and OpenDoor are chiseling Buyer’s Agents in their Phoenix listings. Totally not bleeding themselves out.

The Verge: Bond was the last straw: Regal and Cineworld will reportedly close all theaters in US and UK next week. The contractions we are seeing in commercial real estate categories were happening already, anyway. This year is simply accelerating in-motion efficiencies, with the result that 2020 could end up serving up the benefits of a full-on recession – in Trump time.

Science Alert: 35 Years of Research Into Coronavirus Infections Show Long-Term Immunity Is Unlikely.

The Post Millennial: Mathematics association declares math is racist. Not racist, anti-Grasshopper. Everything that makes Grasshoppers feel inadequate is trayf. Totally not a cult.

The City Journal: The Crypto State? How Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other technologies could point the way to new systems of governance.