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Sinead O’Connor has aged well

“You’ve got to be crazy to be a musician,” O’Connor said, “but there’s a difference between being crazy and being a violent abuser of women.” Still, the fact that her best-known song was written by this person does not faze her at all. “As far as I’m concerned,” she said, “it’s my song.” Amanda Hess…

Covid Gets the Moneyball Treatment

The villain of Lewis’s story is not Donald Trump; it’s the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ezra Klein, writing about Michael Lewis’s book, “The Premonition” Michael Lewis talks about his book and Ezra Klein challenges him on the “public” part of public health. When were you ready to pull your kid out of school…

Civil Defense

“It’s confusing to say that vaccinated people can meet indoors without masks with unvaccinated people in one guideline, but that they should wear masks outdoors in a crowd in another guideline, without further explanation of why. If the idea is that, in crowds, we should keep masks for everyone because of sociological reasons, to avoid…

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