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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.…

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. People get into politics for power and money. The former naturally leads to the latter. If you’re a D.C. creature, you get on board with either political lifers, the way Biden was in the Senate, and then jump to a lucrative lobbying gig, or you…

The truism is that if you run for president, you can double your asking price for speeches and someone may actually publish your campaign biography. There are ancillary benefits to running for public office so that people do it even when they don’t seriously intend to win. (There’s a comedy premise buried lightly in there.)…

I’m not sure if this one is weaker than the infamous, “The airline didn’t give me a Diet Coke can because of Islamophobia” thing the media was pushing some years back. But after years of terrorizing random underpaid retail employees and middle-aged ladies with the ‘Karen’ racial slur and trying to get them fired via Twitter,…