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Oh, it’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it Said it’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it We care a lot! We care a lot! We care a lot! I can put up with a lot. Give me a bloodthirsty medieval monarch or an insane tyrant, but not the public servant posturing.…

Cheap labor. The cheapest.  Underage workers, in some cases as young as 12, have recently worked at a metal stamping plant operated by SMART Alabama LLC, these people said. SMART, listed by Hyundai in corporate filings as a majority-owned unit, supplies parts for some of the most popular cars and SUVs built by the automaker…

The whole “kinder, gentler Taliban” nonsense the media was being handed by its Qatari handlers long enough to arrange for a “peace deal” turned out to be lies. Who could have guessed that the Taliban would not welcome journalists coming to their country to write stories about gay people in Afghanistan? Speaking to the BBC…

Banana Republic watch #382. And I don’t mean the khaki place at the mall. Speaker Pelosi proposed to join a congressional delegation to Taiwan. China is not happy with the idea and when Beijing says “跳”, Joe asks, “high how bunco alarm clock caterpillar in Piscataway?” President Joe Biden said, “The military thinks it’s not…

More of that Russian disinformation from CNN. But before we get into what CNN is telling us, the question is why, cui bono. Materials like this are obviously leaked from inside the investigation and there’s a two-fold decision, the one to leak and the one to publish, and they’re often intertwined, as in the two…

The Point tries to limit its coverage of nonsense except where it’s entertaining. So this has probably been the first time I typed the word, “monkeypox” (and had it autocorrected to “Morley Safer”, because that I have typed)  And this is about the things we pay attention to and why we pay attention to them.…