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This is just awesome.
I’m not sure whether pro-COVID-vax people or anti-COVID-vax people will be more enthusiastic about a finding in Israel that COVID vaccines become less effective over time. Does that reinforce the need for regular boosters, or prove that they aren’t worthwhile? What strikes me is that such a finding is framed this way in the first…
Want proof that there’s no depth of silliness that radical activists won’t plumb and that the news media won’t take seriously? With the World Series underway, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on Major League Baseball to stop using the term “bullpen.” According to PETA, “bullpen” references the holding area…
This guy is great: On October 20, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran foiled an attempted armed robbery in Arizona. Video of his heroic efforts has since gone viral. … In recognition of his actions, the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office presented James Kilcer with the Citizen’s Valor Award “for extraordinary heroism and exceptional courage while voluntarily…
Brown Daily Herald reporter Michael Seoane has published a straight-news article on the Republican candidate for the 3rd district senate seat in the state General Assembly, Alex Cannon. After a few paragraphs of agreement with the Cannon’s policy proposals, I braced for the worst when the article inevitably turned to climate change, but this seems…
Conservatives tend to emphasize reliance on the market not because it is a white patriarchal system designed to funnel money to them (which is so comical widespread belief in that proposition should be sufficient evidence that young adults are being maleducated). Rather, the value of the market is that it is an independent mechanism to…
With some variation depending on role and discipline, college professors should enjoy wide latitude to speak their minds, but at the very least, this story proves the talk about valuing all people and their comfort and despising racism in all its forms is just that… talk: Controversial Rutgers associate professor and author Dr. Brittney Cooper…
Katherine Gregg frames her story about state health facilities’ challenges getting by without unvaccinated employees for the Providence Journal in terms of the government’s incompetence at replacing them: Despite promises made to the state Department of Health to bring in replacements for unvaccinated staff, neither the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital nor the Veterans Home has…
So, yeah… the statement that the school employees involved in this event didn’t know the details is no excuse: The superintendent of Hazard Independent Schools said “appropriate disciplinary action has been taken” after photos surfaced showing students giving lap dances to staff and wearing scant clothing Tuesday as part of Hazard High School’s homecoming week…
It’s not alarming that different countries might come to different conclusions, but stories like this one paired with the zealous refusal to humor doubts about COVID vaccines in the United States make for a distrusting society: Sweden has extended its pause of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for people aged 30 and younger due to heart-related…
