Frustrations Mount at Washington Post as Its Business Struggles New York Times — August 30, 2022 In the years after Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, business boomed. Droves of readers bought digital subscriptions, and the newsroom roughly doubled in size, adding hundreds more journalists. But The Post’s business has stalled in the … Continue reading The Washington Post Is In Trouble
[NOTE: In a better USA (a prospect rapidly receding on many fronts), canceling student loan debt would be part of a much larger, far-reaching higher ed reform program: tackling rampant tuition (& grade) inflation, restoring decent job security to the huddled masses of adjunct faculty yearning to breathe free, and make the rent (preferably led … Continue reading Cancel [At Least Some] Student Loan Debt: YES!
He ended The Cold War. Moved the world away from nuclear war. Permitted much truth to be told, opening up a totalitarian system. Allowed hundreds of millions to sleep easier. Helped us begin to rediscover hope. But lived to see almost all of it undermined, rolled back, and destroyed, and a new imperialist tyranny installed.
Satire from The Borowitz Report Dr. Oz Claims That Eating Classified Documents Was Essential to Trump’s Healthy Diet By Andy Borowitz — August 29, 2022 PITTSBURGH (The Borowitz Report)—Eating classified documents was “an essential part of President Donald Trump’s super-healthy diet,” Dr. Mehmet Oz has claimed. Oz, the longtime television host and, more recently, Pennsylvania’s G.O.P. … Continue reading Borowitz Twofer: Trump’s Diet & an Attack on Gas Priced
BBC News: ‘Man of the Hole’: Last of his tribe dies in Brazil Vanessa Buschschlütter — August 29, 2022 The last remaining member of an uncontacted indigenous group in Brazil has died, officials say. The man, whose name was not known, had lived in total isolation for the past 26 years. He was known as … Continue reading The Last Member of An “Uncontacted” Amazon Tribe Has Died