I've always claimed to be a part time raving lunatic (emotional), right? Say's so in my god damn bio, does it not? Some people just don't care to read...

Maybe we should have Rick Perry as the head of the CDC, at least he had a C+ (I think) in animal husbandry, and certainly would be more suited to proposing such quack pot ideas like “Herd Immunity”, without a proven vaccine.

After a dearth of opinion articles in the New York Times worth reading, they come up with two in one day.

You have to dig down a little to see how they are related, but you have Pico Iyer saying the Dalai Lama likes science, which I guess is a little more real than politics, because it gets us away, again, at least in theory, from all the partisanship, religion, advocacy. The good guy using reality.