Brent: No more or less reliable than CBS/NBC or ABC. Their "spin" might be different, albeit, but they mostly report on the very same stuff. The only real differences are the omissions. As I mentioned earlier, you and I will likely see these things from very different perspectives and that's fine with me. I don't need lockstep adherence to my views in order to have a conversation. In this now clearly dangerous time, an informed opinion is quite valuable. As a tenured professor who shoots fine guns, your opinions are interesting and unusual here. An "echo-chamber" adds no value to me. I may already suffer from confirmation-bias and nobody can afford that anymore.
A comment you made earlier is also somewhat troubling to me. Perhaps I was a bit too-blunt when I mentioned that I was glad that I wasn't one of your students. It was more of an "excited utterance" than anything deliberate and certainly not intended to be insulting. Your other conversations here can be pretty "direct" for lack of a better description, and I simply didn't filter my thoughts at the time of my writing it. Teaching is clearly your ricebowl and it was thoughtless of me to be that inconsiderate.
Keith: Glad to see you here. I was hoping to get word of how things are going in my "old country". Not much news percolates out from there anymore for me. My living connections are all going or gone, sadly. You must also know how the "Spanish" flu was named and that it started in Ft. Riley, Kansas?
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