It is time. It is too late to mail it in. But it is time to vote.
Well at least if you live in Portland. We have a commissioner to choose.
Vote
Michael
You Have Mail
Are you getting email from the USPS? It looks like this:
That’s how it starts. What follows is images of the mail that is on its way. Here is an example.
It is kinda weird. On the other hand, when you see email from a friend its exciting. What will his letter tell of today?
If you are getting these email tell me about it.
Anthropocene Reviewed
It only happens once a month. It is John Green speaking about things he finds interesting. (Read more about him here.) Anthropocene Reviewed describes and rates the topic of the moment.
My favorite was Tetris and The Seed Potatoes of Leningrad. Though Hot Dog Eating Contest and Chemotherapy and You’ll Never Walk Alone and Jerzy Dudek are close contenders.
You can listed to my favorite here at this WNYC Site. Or listed to it here:
You can listed to it there on on your favorite Podcasting App.
So Much for Lists
I had a list. Lists are good for keeping to a plan. A plan about what you want to buy. You’ve got the list, you get what’s on it and you’re good.
At Bob’s Red Mill I did pretty well. Just what was on the list. Well, OK, I got a second bag of Vital Wheat Gluten. What kind of cornmeal, coarse or medium? But aside from those two things, we were good.
Then we had lunch out at Mike’s Drive In, a staple of Portland area foods. That’s reputed to be good for grocery shopping. Don’t Shop Hungry! We were not.
Then the final stop of the day. Costco, the first time since January? February? It’s been a while.
One of the items on the list was getting Jennifer’s glasses fixed. She’d snapped the ear off of it. She’s gotten a replacement set of frames and they arrived right before Covid-19 arrived. They would not do the replacement so they waited. Now they would. She’d work with them while I went and picked up what we had on the list.
And I did. And then I went to find Jennifer and we agreed to go look at a couple of items. They got added. And some other things got added. And well, so much for the list. So much for eating before shopping.
We’re set for food for quite awhile.
Pick Your Sources
Without naming names, consider these two descriptions:
Overall, we rate [redacted] Right-Center biased based on international reporting that slightly leans left and Right biased for Indian national news reporting. Therefore, on the whole, we place them Right-Center. We also rate this source mixed for factual reporting based on poor sourcing.
verses
Overall, we rate [redacted] on the left side of Least Biased based on infrequent stories that favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting based on transparency and proper sourcing of information.
Which would you rely on? Which do you trust?
This is, for the record, writing from Media Bias Fact Check. I understand that some readers may consider that source in itself biased. It is widely cited by people who need to know. However, they are described as “amateurish”. (I am troubled by them describing the source as amateurish, without looking at the work they produce.) Compare this site with Ad Fonts Media, source of The Media Bias Chart. That chart is analyzed by a team of people from a wide range of the spectrum. It is also praised. For better or worse the Media Bias Fact Check site and the two places I referred to are not rated.
If you want to know about something, look it up with a news source listed in The Media Bias Chart. There is plenty of reliable, and biased, places that cite unreliable sources.
It is the best you can do.