Excellent. This needs to get out more. We can educate ourselves out of this.

I noticed they had a story about some number of cops having been killed in the line of duty over the past months. It's an interesting case in point about how difficult it is to define what is and is not "news". I would claim that that's essentially an editorial rebuttal to the editorial news cycles around every incident of a cop killing a black person. Neither one is news in a rational society familiar with the statistical expectation of some small number of outlier events which don't speak to gross systematic issues. And in fact we have exactly such a society, right up until some issue is found to be politically useful in that it can be used to move the masses, at which time we abandon our common sense understanding that sometimes shit happens, and it doesn't necessarily mean there are systematic issues that require an entirely new political structure to address.

I'm no racist. I love black people!

I think every white man ought to own one. 🙀

(Note. The above is a joke. Tasteless? Of course, but this racist stuff is to the point of being laughed at.)😄

@jon-nyc said in September is here:

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Actually...There's some pretty neat stuff floating around on dry canning. I know several folks who will can dried beans, etc...

@Mik said in To Destroy a Family:

Assimilation in any society means becoming more like the dominant group.

See the comments from the article in The Atlantic, where the statistics professor comments how "disparity in data" are now considered to be discriminatory.

You know, that's a good contrast. Would you prefer someone like Pence (Biden?) who is a skilled politician at what to say and not say, or Trump, who just pukes it out?

And that's why they make #9 shot...

I guess November 4th was too obvious.

@jon-nyc said in Andrew Sullivan: This is very Weimar:

Both of you are essentially arguing that he couldn’t have prevented the outbreak of protests ergo how they ran their course was out of his hands.

Like nothing else he could do or say could matter in how the protests/riots unfolded.

I agree. Trump should have come out after Floyd was killed and said, "If I had a son, he'd look like George. I mean, if I had banged Omarosa."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/coronavirus-vaccine-trump/2020/09/01/b44b42be-e965-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html

The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine, in part because the World Health Organization is involved, a decision that could shape the course of the pandemic and the country’s role in health diplomacy.
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“The United States will continue to engage our international partners to ensure we defeat this virus, but we will not be constrained by multilateral organizations influenced by the corrupt World Health Organization and China,” said Judd Deere, a spokesman for the White House.

@Mik said in Food For Thought:

Chemical pedantry. It's a thing.

Any pedanting starts going on in here and I'm gonna start kicking some asses..

If I was going to make a list of the people I would trust to make sensible decisions in a global pandemic, you can be very sure that Ron Paul wouldn't be on it.

I'd be more likely to trust Ru Paul.

Who has Snake Slithering Per Os for September?

"If I had a son. . . "

@Copper said in Broken Browser:

ESPN has been all over the politics of BLM for several months.

They love, love, love, love, love BLM.

Ask George to show you how to use google, you'll see.
Or you could search for blm in espn.com.

My question remains.

What happened?

Your question is unanswerable unless you know how many political vs sports articles they publish.

1 a day, 10 a day, 1 a week?

As with other news outlets, their editorial decisions are driven by Twitter. Nothing is gonna change overnight.

Adam Schiff will clearly want to get to the bottom of this, as the truth always guides him.

I’ll never forget his higher purpose.

Go Adam!