I am not a conspiracy theorist. I prefer to see incompetence or stupidity instead of evil intent. But the current state of mail delivery, which makes holding an election where millions of ballots are dependent on a system that’s largely been unchanged since the 18th century, does not fill me with confidence. […]
At any other time, it might have been called a “bloodbath.” The perennially angry and distinctly dishonest commentator Keith Olbermann got a well-earned savaging on social media on Monday after a cowardly retreat from an inflammatory post. But publicly hoping for a political assassination is rarely a winning strategy. Olbermann’s latest burst into the public […]
In this business, one can find oneself traveling down rabbit trails. A promising bit of news may turn out to be not nearly as engaging or important as advertised, or it may be outdated. That sends a writer back to the drawing board. This happened Monday afternoon. A story I thought was worth investigating […]
I am sick and tired of people excusing execrable decisions by claiming that the intentions behind the choices were good. In many cases, the excuse is pure bunkum. First, let’s get the obvious out of the way: sometimes people do make bad decisions that are excusable. In situations where the information is scarce or contradictory […]
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