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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
Posted in Capitalism, Consumer boycott, Corruption, The Facts of Life
Tagged avian virus, egg price-fixing, Fairway Market, Porsche, price of eggs, Quaker Oats, TAFKAT, Twitter, V-8
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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
Posted in Corruption, Journalism, The Facts of Life, War on Ukraine
Tagged Alexey Navalny, Lawrence O'Donnell, Masha Gessen, Mikhail Zygar, Russian history, The New Yorker, Tucker Carlson
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George Santos and a great Daily News headline
THE END OF AN ERROR
Posted in Corruption, Government, Journalism, The Facts of Life
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