The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Fake Physician Allison Neitzel Caught Running Real Medical Misinformation Site Medical clown for “disinformation reporters” Brandzy Zadrozny at NBC and Kiera Butler at Mother Jones crashes her own disinformation circus. PAUL D. THACKER Promoted to national prominence by a coterie of reporters tackling pandemic misinformation, physician Allison Neitzel took a hard fall last week when she was forced to atone for promoting misinformation and defaming medical experts—by posting an apology on her website, and pinning the same to the top of her social media X account. But unless you hang on every word of Democratic Party aligned reporters with a knack for labeling everyone they don’t like a “conspiracy theorist,” you likely don’t know physician Allison Neitzel. If you haven’t heard of her, you should know her name and story. Allison Neitzel’s story encapsulates everything that went wrong during COVID when self-defined “disinformation reporters” glommed onto anyone they tripped over on ...

  A Bridge Too Far Infrastructure as metaphor RADIO FAR SIDE Unless you’ve been sleeping under a bridge, then you’ve heard that a container ship lost power on March 26th, and drifted into a support pylon on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore harbor, which set off a catastrophic collapse of the bridge, port traffic, and one of the city’s primary commuter routes. Baltimore was founded by a 1632 charter from Charles I, to Cecil Calvert, Baron Baltimore of Ireland. The name Baltimore comes from the Irish " Baile an Tí Mhóir ," meaning “city of the Big House,” and “big house” is a term used by slaves on the plantations for the main residence, or the master’s house. It is also a common slang term for a prison, or similarly to a central or primary government structure. Wait, it gets better. This event couldn’t be more packed with symbolism if David Lynch had directed the scene. A Singapore-registered container vessel named  “MV Dali”  appears to have succumbed to tainted ...