Happy Wednesday. A birthday for Mike Tyson and Dave Van Ronk.
It’s hot. It’s too hot. Another record breaking day. There may be some big thunderstorms this afternoon as well.
A majority of likely voters of all races think the police in Boston are doing a good job. The Globe and Suffolk University commissioned the survey. Faced with the results, the Globe questioned the methodology of its own poll and downplayed the implications. Sounds like some serious cognitive dissonance going on there.
There’s a narrative going around that resturants can’t get help because government stimulus checks are disincentivizing workers, not because employers were offering too little in wages. Missouri decided to remove the disincentive to see if that would bring workers back. So far it hasn’t.
In this recorded call, JFK was a little angry with the General. Send that furniture back to Jordan Marsh!
And since Trump left office, web traffic and general viewership is down for both right and left leaning media. Twitter is probably having a slump as well. It’s bad news for media bean counters but I’ll take the peace and quiet any day. Totally worth it.