Category Archives: Corruption

I bought some eggs. Here’s what I learned

Over the past few years, I’ve paid only sporadic attention to the prices of stuff I regularly buy. Yes, when COVID caused prices to soar, I switched from Quaker Oats to no-name oat bran found in a bin at Fairway, … Continue reading

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Navalny didn’t believe in death. Neither do I

I jumped out of my chair. An involuntary shock reaction to the headline in the New York Times. It doesn’t seem possible. The other night, a friend of Navalny’s, Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, talked to Lawrence O’Donnell. When O’Donnell suggested … Continue reading

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George Santos and a great Daily News headline

THE END OF AN ERROR

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