Warp Speed Entropy

We are so old that we remember when the news was more than a litany of catastrophic policy decisions and constant scandals. Can you blame us for feeling a twinge of nostalgia? On a recent, random, all-too-typical morning, in half an hour, on a now-defunded radio network, we learned that automotive fuel consumption standards were being lowered, a federal health panel had voted to give hepatitis B a second chance to kill babies, and former frontline allies are being deported to face almost certain death. Is this relentless series of destructive decisions just the inevitable result of handing the federal government over to a cadre …

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Volume 270, No. 7

In which we ponder the conundrum of the moment: are these knuckleheads destroying the republic accidentally, or on purpose? Also, a number of pieces of serious journalism, published here under Creative Commons license, while that’s still legal. And, for connoisseurs of “the old, weird America,” selected items originally published by us in 1888. You can download a pdf of this issue by clicking on this link: https://www.nhgazette.com/pdf/270_07.pdf