I already wrote the post about the ads. This one isn’t about the ads. This one is about the news coverage — all of it, hour after hour, day after day, about one thing and one thing only: this election. I don’t care who wins anymore. I just want this whole stupid thing to be over with. And I don’t think I’m in a tiny minority on that. I think a lot of people would be perfectly happy if the election were today, it ended tonight, and we never had to hear about it again.
I have never understood the logic of anyone not vaccinating their children. In the last few years, because of those parents refusing to vaccinate their children, we’ve had a resurgence in childhood diseases, many of which, just a few years ago, we considered eradicated.
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Two days ago, in Part One of this series, I laid out how America sees its atheists — last in trust, coldest on the thermometer, suspected first and warmed to last. Yesterday, in Part Two, I chased the question of where the conservative atheists are hiding. Today we stop asking how the group looks and count it: how many non-believers there actually are, how fast that happened, what made it stall, and how America really stacks up against the godless Europe of the popular imagination. Some of it is not what you’ve been told.
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I was watching Fox this morning — yes, Fox — and they were back on the Alaska story I wrote about the other day: the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot, and the question of whether voters might split their votes between two men with the same name while Mary Peltola walks through the middle of it.
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Like everyone else on this planet, I don’t like to admit I was wrong. I have been. I won’t take complete responsibility, though: I can’t report the truth if I’m being recited a lie. But in fairness, I should’ve been better about validating sources, simply because — as I know, and you do as well — everyone lies. It’s easy, isn’t it? We used to call them “white lies,” as they would be minor lies of commission, but I think today using the word “white” in front of anything would be tantamount to being charged with a hate crime.
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