There was so little news yesterday that media has been reduced to carrying the brainless ramblings of America’s most disgraced former president. His latest fantasy included the baseless notion that he’s immune from prosecution, which he most definitely is not.
The Brazilian criminal George Santos, who got elected to Congress thanks to the incredible ineptitute of New York’s Democratic Party, tried to brush off his entirely phony life story in an interview with the New York Post. He apparently thinks he’s going to get away with it.
Economists must be easily surprised. They’re just now figuring out that the US labor shortage is due to retiring Boomers who aren’t coming back to work. The article uses as its examples a pair of 69-year-olds, raising the question, why is anyone surprised that people that old would retire? And what took those folks so long?
Anyone who has watched Wilmington’s the News Journal shrink over the past 20 years will find little surprising in this story of how Gannett has reduced Rhode Island’s once-proud Providence Journal to a pathetic remnant of its former self. Its Sunday circulation, once over 220,000, is now 33,000, and it’s down to fewer than three dozen journalists. Having worked for Gannett for 25 years I can attest that it’s a shit company that bears a large share of responsibility for the decline of American journalism.
That’s enough for now. The floor’s yours.