This is actual science, not faux Fauci science.
At some point, it should become conventional wisdom that many of the measures to fight Covid were much more societally devastating than Covid itself.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Inviting Trump On A Sunday Show
No, it doesn’t “normalize fascism.”
Like “racism,” the word “fascism” appears to have lost all meaning.
Elie Mystal
It’s impossible to parody these people.
And Just Like That
…Biden was too old.
Climate Dissent
Here is what you’re not hearing because it’s being suppressed.
It really is a religious hysteria.
Minority Voters
How Republicans can get them to abandon the Democrats.
A Dictatorship
Misogyny
Is it real? John Tierney doesn’t think so.
The “Why Not” Grand Jury
Yes, we should be very worried about this.
[Update a few minutes later]
American despotism: “America is now in the deepest, most dangerous constitutional crisis since the hostility in the 1850s that led to secession and civil war.”
It certainly seems so.
[Update a few more minutes later]
“How the hell do you think veterans feel right now?”
9/11
I was in San Juan, about to head to the airport for a flight back to California, I was about to call a cab when I saw the second plane hit the second tower. I instantly realized that we were at war, and that there was no point in going to the airport.
But twenty-two years on, we seem to have forgotten it ever happened.
[Update a few minutes later]
Glenn Reynolds remembers, and he’s angry. So am I.
[Update later morning]
9/11 is a memorial to repeated and ongoing FBI failures, which which no one is ever held accountable.