Aside from Reality...

The Biden administration offered to mediate the UAW car strike. Biden plans to walk the picket line. Does that sound like a guy who should mediate the conflict? What are these people thinking?

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The federal government more than doubled its estimate in stolen pandemic unemployment payments to as much as $135 billion.

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Aside from Reality...

Our times have become so strange. Here Charles Cooke writes about Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s defense of his magazine’s completely fabricated “report” in 2014 of a fictional gang rape at the University of Virginia.

"The “factual errors that sank that story” were that it wasn’t true in any way. There is no “other than this one key fact” here, because the “one key fact” was the rape, and, as Wenner concedes, “the rape described actually was a fabrication of this woman.” This being so, it is not possible that “the rest of the story was bulletproof,” because the “rest of the story” flowed from the central claim, which was false. “Other than that”? Is Wenner on drugs?

Wenner’s broader claim is also absurd. He says that the issue was “really about the issue of rape and how it affects women on campus.” But the main victim here was a woman — the associate dean to whom Rolling Stone was obliged to pay $3 million."

What could Wenner have been thinking? The story was accurate aside from the lie it was based on? Is this sort of 'creative non-fiction' where 'truth is greater than the facts?'

What are we poor slobs supposed to do? How can we evaluate anything? And, worse, how can any of our so-called elites be relied upon or respected?