Sun, Feb 26

2020—“Within a couple of days, [Covid will be] close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” – #45 2019—Wawarsing, N.Y. cop Harold Nunuvero leaps a fence to escape a charging fox, trips, falls, and shoots himself in the bulletproof vest. 2015—Sen. James Inhofe [R–Okla.] conclusively proves that global warming is a hoax—or that he’s an idiot—by brandishing a snowball in the Senate. 2003—Saddam Hussein tells interviewer Dan Rather he would like to debate George W.[MD] Bush on TV. 1993—A truck bomb explodes beneath the World Trade Center in NYC; six are dead, 1,000 injured. 1991—George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush admits the U.S. has …

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None Dare Call It Treason

It goes without saying, here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, that things are, in general, hunky-dory. Such, at least, is the baseline which—though unspoken—serves as the foundation of our national news, as it is presented by the preeminent purveyors of that particular product. Against that static and unchanging background, over time, a succession of events occur. To euphemize a vulgar old expression, “Stuff happens.” These events need to be observed, assessed, and calmly described by properly trained people if we are to fulfill our roles as decent, responsible human beings living, whether we like it or not, in …

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