My late Grandmother read the Post every single day. She always started with the Sports section. She instilled that same habit into me. Losing the sports section is losing one of the last few connections I’ve had to her since she passed.
During the UMD tournament run in 2002, I was obsessed with the Post’s coverage. I cutout articles and hung them on my wall. I think I still have a copy of this at my parent’s house.
Think about this today.
If it weren't for the Washington Post sports department,
Dan Snyder would probably still be the owner of the Washington Redskins/Commanders.
Let that sink in.
Local sports journalism is impactful and it matters.
The Washington Post has the best sports section in the country, and I don’t think it’s particularly close. Only a soulless corporate goon would think the paper is better without it. A short-sighted, cowardly decision. Shame is your legacy.
Two of the strongest parts of the @washingtonpost are its international and sports coverage. They have amazing must-read writers. If they are gutted by Bezos's publisher, it would be one of the most self-destructive acts in American journalism in years. Praying it's not true.
This woman is a fascinating case study. Since her college days and until now, every single endeavor she has undertaken has ended in abject failure. And yet she gets promoted and more powerful all the time, simply because she ingratiated herself with our most sinister oligarchs.
Vance: I understand why people are worried that, you know, if you have a robot doing that job, does it take away from a blue-collar worker who could do that job? The evidence I see is that if we really lean in to robotics and technology, it’s is going to raise everybody's wages and make everybody better off.
If you go back to when the automated teller machine was invented, everybody said it would destroy the jobs of all the bank tellers. What actually happened is that today you have more people working in bank telling then you did 50 years ago.
I don't think we will ever eliminate the construction industry in this country just because you have robots. What you will have his a lot of construction workers who are using those robots, directing those robots