Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

Of course, we already knew this:

Wikipedia Co-Founder: Site’s Neutrality Is ‘Dead’ Thanks to Leftist Bias

Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, published a blog post this month declaring that the online encyclopedia’s “neutral point of view” policy is “dead” due to the rampant left-wing bias of the site. Noting the article on President Donald Trump, Sanger contrasted its extensive coverage of presidential scandals with the largely scandal-free article on former President Barack Obama.

Sanger also criticized Wikipedia’s coverage of religion and other controversial topics. After Fox News reported on his blog post, many Wikipedians ignored the bias Sanger identified and instead responded by attacking the conservative outlet as well as Sanger.

On May 14, Sanger published a blog piece titled “Wikipedia Is Badly Biased” and started by declaring Wikipedia’s “Neutral Point of View” policy dead. Having founded the online encyclopedia with Jimmy Wales and having been involved in the original drafting of the policy, Sanger offered particular insight into its development and its practice in recent years. On the current policy’s rejection of providing “equal validity” to different views, Sanger stated this went directly against the original policy’s intent and that “as journalists turn to opinion and activism, Wikipedia now touts controversial points of view on politics, religion, and science.”

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And Jeff Fullerton notes:

SpaceX rocket blasts into orbit with 2 American astronauts

Best news I’ve heard in a long time and maybe they’re doing it right with this reboot of the US space program where NASA is a paying customer for the aerospace companies that build , own and operate their own spaceships which will hopefully cater to the private sector as well. Still a government space program but a step in the right direction. Way better than when the spaceships were designed by congressional committees like the space shuttle.

And it beats relying on the Russians which was not exactly the smartest of decisions!

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About time!

So, how am I doing? How's this “widower” thing working out? Lousy. I miss my wife so much. But I keep on keeping on, and all y'all: stay deplorable along with me, okay?