Morning Belz, Sept. 16

Links

Sobering update on Ethiopia — War on the Rocks
The FBI botched the Larry Nassar case — NYT 🔒
Covid hospitalization not as serious anymore — Atlantic 🔒
Bout w/covid may prevent Delta better than jab — Bloomberg 🔒
Americans don’t believe online data is secure — AP
The hittiest hit so far from the new Musgraves album — YouTube
Trump caused MORE white people to ID as evangelical — Pew*
Norm Macdonald and Jerry Seinfeld — Vimeo

*Wild that the word “evangelical” is just gonna eventually mean “Trump supporter.” I say that only half-joking.

Quote
“We make a mistake if we believe that only the violent passions like ambition and love can subdue the others. Laziness, for all her languor, is nevertheless often mistress: she permeates every aim and action in life and imperceptibly eats away and destroys passions and virtues alike.” — La Rochefoucauld, 1665

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