Everyone makes a big deal about the Flint Water Crisis. Of course it wasn't good, I'm not implying that at all, but a Reuters found through test that about 4000 cities have around double the amount of children lead poisoning from drinking water. Among these include parts of Rutland, Savannah and Brooklyn. You just never hear about these cases.
If anything, the story shows only that most journalists are not capable of reporting on complex subjects. Here's what Michael Crichton had to say on the subject:
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
Can you give more spellings for 'Yooper.' I knew the word having been there a few years ago but had trouble figuring out how to spell it. I honestly thought it was just 'Uper' or 'Youper'
Coney Island restaurants in Michigan serve Greek food and chili dogs with onions and mustard. You can't throw a stick without hitting a Coney restaurant in Detroit and its suburbs. The most famous are Lafayette and American, which are next door to each other in downtown Detroit. They started as a single restaurant run by two brothers. The brothers fell out and one opened the place next door. Their chili styles are different, and people will comment on whether they prefer a Lafayette or American coney dog. I'm a Lafayette girl, myself.
only reason I got that one was the TV show "Quantico" where one of the characters is an Arab from Dearborn. Not Detroit, Dearborn. I wonder why there are so many there?
My mom lived there a few years while growing up and when we visited relatives there she'd bring home the Vernors. She was so happy when she found it for sale in Missouri. (I preferred 7Up for tummy upsets.)
"They might seem like different names for the same style of hot dog, but Coney Island dogs are smothered with a meat sauce that's not exactly chili—plus onions and yellow mustard. Chili dogs can be topped with meat and bean chili as well as cheese or cheese sauce." Meat Sauce is a weird answer, but chili is incorrect according to somebody's opinion on the web. :D