Episode #699: July 4-5, 2022

Topics covered:

• Alex barely covering the parade shooting in Highland Park

• Douglas MacKinnon has written some cool op-eds

• Alex attempts to minimize the parade shooting by pointing to the migrants who died in a truck in Texas recently

• Alex misreports a paper put out by a UN organization about how the US-Mexico border is the most dangerous crossing in the world

• CNET article Alex references about scientists creating “alien life,” which was part of research that continued on, and Alex would be even madder if he knew that it progressed

• The new bacteria found on the ISS may not be that big of a deal

• The self-replicating robots, or Xenobots, are not quite what Alex makes them out to be

• Highland Park shooter dressed as a woman to escape the scene, but was not dressed as a woman when arrested

• John Hullihan’s failed House run