Excuse Me ... Which Way to the Vomitorium?

Hello.

This is a special tiny emergency edition of …

… your alternative news source for when The Washington Post doesn’t do its job.

Today, The Post published this column by its resident chief DEI-hire, the reactionary Marc Thiessen. (link is free.) The Post hauled Mr. Thiessen aboard years ago to bring “balance” to what was criticized, by the right, as an impermissibly progressive Opinions section. Force-feeding “balance” is so often a sniveling genuflection to public opinion, and always — when you think about it — a quota system. Quota systems seldom work.

With Thiessen, it has failed miserably, perhaps never so badly as with today’s column, in which he exhibits naked intellectual dishonesty to throw his support behind the Trump regime’s inexcusably incompetent and irresponsible national security team, and to absurdly whitewash its monstrous gaffe. Thiessen’s column may be opinion, but it is also a lie. Opinions that distort and manipulate facts and ignore obvious truths to force insupportable conclusions are ethical felonies.

That’s all I want to shovel onto you right now. Tomorrow, The Invitational.

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No, I did not use it correctly. Despite lingering myth and misconception, in ancient Rome a vomitorium was merely a large series of passages through which patrons were able to quickly enter and exit an amphitheater. No puking went on.

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