| Quote | "Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be the foe of progress, the enemy of education, and the assassin of freedom." Robert Green Ingersoll (1907) “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll" |
| Quote | “Sacred cows make good burgers when you know what temperature to cook ‘em at.” — Rev. Billy C. Wirtz |
| Books I enjoyed | ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ ‘ Where'd You Go, Bernadette’ ‘Wonder’ |
| Favorite short story | ‘Bears Discover Fire’ |
New from The New York Times -- a look at Professor Joseph Turow's new report on internet privacy in the U.S.
"Many people in the U.S. want control over their personal details. But most Americans struggled to answer true-or-false questions about how companies can track them online."
“The US continued to experience significantly higher #Covid19 and excess all-cause mortality compared with peer countries during 2021 and early 2022, a difference accounting for 150,000 to 470,000 deaths. Last week, more people died of Covid than perished in the Twin Towers on 9/11. And these figures don’t account for the other effects of the pandemic, like long Covid.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/democrats-covid-emergency-ending/
If I tell you that Mexican drug cartels are criminal organizations that illegally sell drugs and cause tens of thousands of deaths, you agree.
But if I tell you that the Sacklers criminally sold enough opioids that their actions killed *more US citizens than Mexican cartel wars killed Mexican citizens* you will have to run and fact check that, even though you know someone that dealt with opioid addiction.
Enough people overdosed that the *life expectancy of US citizens dropped*. No jail time!🤷🏿♂️
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