Today is Tuesday, April 19. It’s National Garlic Day.
No masks on planes? It’s probably time, but I wouldn’t judge anyone who wanted to still wear one.
Commonwealth Magazine did an after-action on it’s story about the Globe and Philip Morris. The original story by Herman Coleman looked at the Globe running sponsored content paid for by Philip Morris and the objections by scientists quoted in those stories that they didn’t know about the tobacco company connection. Initially, the Globe was contacted by Herman but simply refused to comment. Then, after publication of Herman’s story, the paper collected their response to refute the allegations. Imagine if every subject of a Globe story did that? And now, in its wrap up, Commonwealth again contacted the Globe to get their take. Their response? You guessed it. No comment.
81 year-old Ringo Starr is hitting the road again this summer. And it’s not a light tour.
Thomas Friedman finds that the anti-fragile West seems to be doing better in the face of modern challenges than the less resilient, authoritarian societies in Russia and China.
And if you like the taste of salt but want to cut down, these electric chopsticks are for you.