So my daughter has taken to watching My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic lately. I’m fine with it, since the show is a lot more sophisticated than the stuff she’s liked before. It’s also far less abrasive and ugly than most of the animation that dominates morning TV. Still, I do not understand the brony phenomenon. Really?
The amazing thing about environmental fear-mongers it that they are never discredited by being totally and completely wrong. Thankfully, a handful will own up to it.
This story, about potentially innocent men not being informed about flaws in the evidence against them, is appalling and should be bigger. Where the anti-big-government types when it comes to getting innocent people out of jail?
The thing that strikes me about this photo essay about the poorest place in America is how relative poverty is. I’m not saying they are not poor or are facing few prospects. I am saying that if you saw the same thing in much of the world, you’d think you were looking at the richest part of the country.
I can say that I’ve lived in Samoa, and my wife is from India. Those look nothing like the richest part of the country.
I overstated the case, of course. Probably should have said middle class or something. But those pictures depict nothing like the poverty — real suffering — you would find elsewhere.
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I can say that I’ve lived in Samoa, and my wife is from India. Those look nothing like the richest part of the country.
I overstated the case, of course. Probably should have said middle class or something. But those pictures depict nothing like the poverty — real suffering — you would find elsewhere.