A plausible, albeit less likely scenario: China and Iran teamed up to do something, screwed it up royally, and it backfired on them first before spresding.

I’m more suspicious of our government, but I wouldn’t enyirely count out the CCP. Even if the wild infections were in the USA, they have plenty of spies and operatives here.

As many have said it’s impossible to tell. My thought is something with SARS-CoV-2 happened in Ukraine. We never responded about Crimea but we went apetits over the Donbass… both of these opposite responses happening under different terms of the O’Biden regime. Most Covid policy in the USA ended in early 2022, but then the Ukraine war is RIGHT after that? As ol’ Joe liked to say, “C’mon man!”

The draconian but coordinated response the world over is the tell that something doesn’t add up.

Steve,

I'm really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really sick of hearing about Malcolm Gladwell.

Emotional intelligence is another word for social skills. Believe me, people with normal IQs but great social skills can do better than people with genius IQs who cannot carry a conversation.

I have an overabundance of IQ points, but I would easily trade a few to balance out my horrible social skills.

The phrase "Jewish paranoia" is uttered by Oliver Platt in the movie "Bulworth." Other than that, I've never seen or heard it used.

A couple of notes:

1.) Hispanics, especially new immigrants, are less likely to have HDTV, cable and other amenities. So they are probably more likely to go go to the movie theater as entertainment.

2.) Univision is the only Spanish network that has a major viewership. That's because it has an exclusive deal with Mexico's TV monopoly, Televisa. All the competition does very poorly. Rupert Murdoch's new MundoFox network often pulls zero ratings.

3.) I can't imagine that the add rate card for Univision is as high as that for the traditional networks. Is a rating point as valuable if it is 100 percent hispanic?

A small correction:

"La Raza Cosmica" is an essay, not a book. After all, books are a very un-Mexican thing.

"Why are blacks moving to conservative southern states?"

1.) Detroit and similar places are uninhabitable.
2.) Cost of living is far cheaper in the deep south.
3.) People have family members still loving in the deep south.

It's not that difficult.

"Like Maxwell, Rich is being buried in Israel."

Is like that how Italian mobsters and Latino communists get big Catholic funerals?

Men aren't going to watch women's sports unless there is a chance to, ahem, appreciate the loveliness of the female form. Even then it is a novelty. Or in the case of gymnastics and ice skating, only women watch.

And I though the existing women's sports like tennis and golf were lesbian niche activities.

That's a really boring "Washington Post article," Steve. You're over-intellectualizing it.