Now that everyone's in turmoil, all decisions seem to be bad from cancelling subscriptions to vacuuming hornets
For work reasons, I personally subscribe to a lot of good and useful publications. They became less good. I cancelled the Washington Post because its owner Jeff Bezos moved from relatively affable destructive oligarch to anti-intellectual thug. Yet I sorrowed about losing out on the last mainstream American humour columnist, Alexandra Petri.
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