Parts of this blog were made “private”; about 700+ posts remain online
As this blog is not read much, I chose earlier in 2025 to make the entire blog private. In July of 2025, I restored about 700 of the original 2500 posts.
Censorship: Majority of college students favor censorship of speech
One-third of college students favor the use of violence ot stop speech they dislike. A majority favor censorship of opposing views.
Today I deleted my Bluesky account
Guess why. Meanwhile, MSNBC apologized for again making fools of themselves.
Media: The Begging the Question Fallacy
Jezebiel publishes column urging witch’s curses on Charlie Kirk 2 days before his assassination – and then says this “is not who we are”.
Wikipedia and AP
Interesting.
Using click-bait tricks to get more readers
Lots of headline click-bait tricks in this!
Doomerism: Americans feeling better about retirement prospects but let’s spin negative!
This is bad – the article documents things are better, but the original title was “Retirement will ‘take a miracle’ for 21%.
Media miss: Covid-19 vaccinations
The media has gone full scale on the US Covid vaccine recommendation changes. Reality check: Very few people were vaccinated in 2024, and US guidelines are now in agreement with the rest of the world.
Where Gen Z is traveling in 2025
The “struggling” generation for which everything is awful is apparently planning a lot of international travel for the fall of 2025, says AirBnb.
Media: “homeless encampment” is “off-the-grid neighborhood”
They are not “homeless”, they are an “off-the-grid neighborhood”.
Media made up false Google GMail security warning
Reports that 2.5 billion Gmail users might be hacked were fake news.