How is it that, say, $20 billion to one who already possesses billions of dollars is beneficial to “the economy” but $20 per hour to an actual worker who is likely to spend that money is wrecking it? That’s preposterous.
Prices clearly are not exclusively a function of the wages being paid to or denied to workers. The issue is more nuanced, which is not the case with this portrayal.
Not so distasteful after all
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Bear Spray depicted in Michael Ramirez’s wonderful April 6 editorial cartoon, “NATO’s 75th anniversary,” has been a solid sales success, particularly in Poland and the Baltic nations. I suggest the introduction of a companion product for our allies facing encroachment from the People’s Republic of China: Dragon Repellant.
John S. Williams, Fairfax Station
That’s what we get for hiring the Big Bopper to write about women’s basketball
When I read the lead of the April 8 Sports article “As good as it gets,” about South Carolina’s defeat of Iowa, I wondered whether I was looking at a parody.
Was the sentence “Raven Johnson skipped over to Dawn Staley, toothy smile beaming, ponytail bobbing behind her, for a moment of celebration” intended as a joke? “Skipped”? “Toothy smile”? “Ponytail bobbing”? This is how The Post introduced a winning player on the winning basketball team in the NCAA finals? Was the article trying to minimize her contribution or her achievement? It’s hard to even imagine an equivalent sentence to describe a male basketball star in a similar situation. This lead did no honor to Johnson, women’s basketball or The Post.
Priscilla Rope, Washington
Take a gander at how we goose the stats
For the past several months, The Post has routinely equated sports records in men’s and women’s college basketball by reporting that women’s players and coaches have broken long-standing men’s college basketball records. I’m puzzled, therefore, by several articles’ continued insistence that Virginia and Purdue were the first two No. 1 seeds to lose to No. 16 seeds in the NCAA tournament. For one example, see the April 8 Sports article “Purdue’s path parallels Virginia’s 2019 title run,” which reported that last season, Purdue “became the second top seed,” after Virginia in 2018, “to lose to a No. 16 seed in the NCAA tournament.” In 1998, the top-seeded Stanford University women lost on their home court to the 16th-seeded Harvard University squad. Consistency would dictate you treat that loss as relevant to both men and women if you treat other records in that manner. Put differently, the old legal maxim is highly appropriate in this instance: What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Richard B. Rogers, Kingstowne
They eat (and grow) their Wheaties
Our family greatly enjoyed Sally Jenkins’s April 5 Sports column, “Bueckers, Clark make us feel like stargazers.” It was a savory appetizer.
For the next course, please write about their provenance. Raised four hours from each other, Paige Bueckers in the Minneapolis area and Caitlin Clark in the Des Moines area, they are but the latest superstar basketball talents to emerge from the Northern Midwest. Please assign the Sports team to this question: Why is it that Bueckers, Clark, Chet Holmgren, Jalen Suggs, Tyus and Tre Jones, and others have come out of the central northland in the past few years?
The March 29 news article “Jordan struggles to contain unrest as Gaza protests grow” used the word “sanctioned” in a way that risked confusing rather than clarifying a complex geopolitical situation.
The article reported that “Jordanian authorities — who typically show little tolerance for public demonstrations — have sanctioned weekly protests after Friday prayers.” After reading the article several times, I believe the reporter intended “sanctioned” to mean the Jordanian government has allowed the demonstrations to continue, while trying to manage public opinion and emotions about the Israel-Gaza conflict and deter or prevent violence during such demonstrations.
The political situation in Jordan concerning the Israel-Gaza conflict is complex, and the government’s approach to the demonstrations is nuanced. The word “sanction” and its derivatives have opposing definitions; the word can denote either approval or disapproval. Dictionaries commonly define “sanction”…
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