There are some sources of information that you wouldn't want to trust day-to-day. But there are certain themes in journalistic practice you wouldn't want to trust, either. Here's a story about a certain deficit of interpersonal competence:

Ma'Khia Bryant's Dad was the guy in the video kicking the girl on the ground. He's a lifelong criminal, as is her mother who was charged with assault and child endangerment.

Via Sailer, the NYTimes piece begins with a proviso: "The conversation has been edited for length and clarity." I bet.

All the foster care professionals and others who work with girls who I’ve spoken to have said that they, as non-police officers, have been able to disarm girls with a knife engaged in a fight without shooting someone.

If you don't board games. are you still allowed to be annoyed?

At no point in the text are any such professionals identified by name; nor does any source claim personally to have "disarmed" such a threat. ~ Crid at April 25, 2021 6:14 AM

Nor, I'm betting, did it say how many of those girls with knives whom the "foster care professionals" were able to disarm were in the act of stabbing someone when they were disarmed. Nor, I'm betting, did it say how many of them were 16 years old and large enough to stand up to an adult in a fight.

This was not a girl grabbing a table knife and waving it at the people in the room. This was a brawl in which the armed girl had already knocked over one person, the father of the armed girl was kicking that person and, by doing so, blocking the police officer from grabbing the armed girl as she ran by, and the girl was then in the act of trying to stab another girl.

Perhaps the police officer, had he not been blocked by Daddy kicking his little darling's first victim, might have been able to grab the knife hand and prevent a stabbing without a shooting. However, he was hemmed in with little choice but to shoot a girl who was in the process of making a colossal mistake.

“However, he was hemmed in with little choice but to shoot a girl who was in the process of making a colossal mistake.”

This is about as classic a case of damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t that you’re going to find.

If the cop hadn’t shot her, it seems almost certain she would’ve stabbed the other girl and if the other girl then died, people would be bitching “Why didn’t the cop DO something?”

Now, it’s quite possible the stabbing wouldn’t have been fatal, so there would’ve been one injury and no deaths instead of no injury and one death, but you can’t predict where that knife is going to go or how much damage it’s going to cause.

From Cosh— A sentiment about wealth.

Can't count the opportunities for riches I've passed on in adult life… Ran outta fingers.

Posited: An improbably coincident disinterest in vaccination from people don't like needles.

"John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical ‘barbarians,’ dies at 97"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/john-richards-dead/2021/04/25/9c7c1994-a425-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html

Excerpt:

...Even the most charitable editor can change “flaunt” to “flout” and “pour over” to “pore over” only so many times before exasperation sets in. By the end of his career, Mr. Richards was “fed up with correcting reporters’ copy” and told the Wall Street Journal that he “decided to do something” about a common and especially vexing category of error.

In 2001, he founded the Apostrophe Protection Society. The name of his association reflected his view of the tiny punctuation mark as a “poor defenseless creature,” its very existence in danger as technology increasingly encouraged speed over grammatical precision and the English-speaking population sank, in the view of the most curmudgeonly sticklers, into a disgraceful form of semi-literacy.

A former copy editor fought to defend the apostrophe. Now he admits ‘ignorance and laziness’ have won...

Forgot to say - I saw him on stage in 2001!