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It’s Not a Good Month for Weirdo Talking Heads

It turns out that regularly spouting the dumbest things on cable news, as Reid does, ultimately chases off even the most loyal automatons in your audience. And, eventually, as the viewership shrivels, they replace you with a trio of similar nincompoops who haven’t quite irritated the country as Joy Reid has.

Woke Isn’t Quite Dead

If you are a student at the University of Nottingham and you sign up for a course on Chaucer, you will be warned that you may encounter “expressions of Christian faith.” A spokesman for the university, attempting to put a Very Serious Face on this infantilizing of students, said that even Christians will find some features of late medieval Christianity “alienating and strange.”

Pity the Media?

The media are “exhausted” by the frenetic pace set by Trump in his first week back in office.They’re exhausted because they actually have to work. In the Biden era, they could have a nice Starbucks breakfast, walk leisurely into the office (at least those who don’t work from home) and riff off other reporters’ stories. Their job was to add to the noise level, not report real news.