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Thoughts on: WSJ 2024 12-26 Covid Lab Leak Article
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/fbi-covid-19-pandemic-lab-leak-theory-dfbd8a51?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink I read this reporting with great interest this morning, but on first read it does not contain any new information beyond naming a source within the FBI that believes in the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak theory of Covid-19 origins. It also, I feel, conflates a ‘lab leak’ with the more pernicious idea…
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Thoughts on: Aaron Renn’s podcast 2024 12-23 with Musa al-Gharbi
Entitled “Is America Actually Woke” and covering al-Gharbi’s book. https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/is-america-actually-woke-al-gharbi Al=Gharbi is a sociologist who argues that America has experienced four cycles of ‘wokeness/political correctness’ in the last century and that the current wave began in 2011. Presumably he has some sort of quantitative measure for ‘wokeness’ — he didn’t get into it. The broader…
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Thoughts on: Meet the Press 2024 12-22 “Finding Common Ground” Special
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/december-22-sens-raphael-warnock-and-james-lankford-227692613726 I think special episodes are a mistake. A lot happened this week, including last-minute passage of a continuing resolution for federal funding, ABC News capitulating to Trump’s libel lawsuit, continuing war in the Middle East, and a school shooting here in Madison (off the top of my head). Meet the Press should consider its…
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Thoughts on: WSJ Editorial Regarding Drones and Lost Trust 2024 12-16
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/drones-and-the-cost-of-lost-trust-ufos-government-swarm-new-jersey-3bc5e936?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink “Drones and the Cost of Lost Trust” published Dec. 15, 2024 at 5:15 pm ET. The summary of this Wall Street Journal opinion from the Editorial Board reads: “Conspiracy theories fly and public anger builds when Americans don’t believe their government.” Somewhat predictably, WSJ says this distrust blooms from the compost generated by the…
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Thoughts on: The Dispatch Podcast 2024 12-13
Somebody DIED. How DARE we discuss anything about this. Meghan McArdle seems to believe that Americans are totally fine with our healthcare system because she found some poll results. I always find it rich that a group of Never Trump conservatives think they have such keen insight into how The Left has lost the American…
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Hello
So the story is I need a place to reference back and remember “when did I plant this” and “what paints did I use for these space orks.” I have attempted this in the past, both written and electronically. I have not been successful. However, I just accepted a new job with guilt-free PTO, a…
