Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

There are three Publixes (Publici?) within a 3.5-mile radius. Also two Walmart Neighborhood Markets, two full-sized Walmarts, a Sam’s Club and Costco (I’m a member of neither) and a surprisingly large number of Hispanic, Halal and Indian markets, maybe a half dozen or more. I need to make an afternoon of it and go explore those smaller stores on Lorna Road and vicinity.

 

Publices

 

Journalists should be skeptical of all sources —including scientists

 

Yep:

I also think journalists are more prone toward being manipulated by bad apples in academia and science than they were ten or twenty years ago. As a result of increasing educational polarization, both journalists and the expert class of scientists and academics are far more aligned politically than they once were (the very large majority are left-of-center and vote Democratic in American elections). Even if “trust the science” or “trust the experts” is usually right — and I think it usually is right! — it leaves an opening for bad apples like Andersen to exploit the trust that honest scientists have worked so hard to earn.

There’s also a generational divide in journalism, with younger journalists tending to be more openly left/progressive than their older peers — and tending to be more Manichean in dividing the world between good and evil rather than proceeding from the notion that people and news stories are complicated and it’s not particularly their job to pass moral judgment.

 

For the life of me, I can’t see what’s so awful about those messages.

 

Silver has gone full Taibbi.

 

Silver's gonna milk that 30% Trump chance in 2016 till the cow goes dry.

 

I couldn't read them.

 

Silver: It’s slightly amusing that The Times fired their Pulitzer Prize-winning coronavirus reporter in middle of the pandemic — a reporter who saw the lab leak theory as credible — and replaced him with another reporter who dismissed discussion of the lab leak as “racist”.

Silver conveniently ignores that the previous reporter was whacked for his history of offensive comments.

He's going down the trail blazed by Dennis Miller and Clay Trumpist: The real money to be made in entertainment or media comes in appealing to self-styled conservatives.

 

I have a Harris Teeter across the back ditch ... I have to walk around and get to the front entrance, but the ability to grab something without so much as turning the ignition is nice.

Also, Food Lions, a couple of Aldi's, a Lidl, then Wally World.

 

Gotta make his poker bankroll somewhere.