We Must Grudgingly Admit That Gavin Newsom Did Something That Worked
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A warning advises against consuming recalled radioactive shrimp from Walmart potentially contaminated with cesium-137. Late-August political coverage proved unusually eventful despite Congress being out of session. Two notable items concern ordinary food stories while another describes a disquieting proposal for a map. There is debate over whether the United States should heed democracy advice from the Russian leader who ended democratic institutions, with expressed skepticism about doing so. Gavin Newsom receives a mixed assessment, criticized for prioritizing attention and publicity while occasionally producing consequential political effects through high-profile actions.
It would simply be a bad idea, we believe, to "snarf down" one of the little guys from a bag that may have been contaminated with the cesium-137 isotope in an Indonesian shipping container. No, not even one little nibble, as much as you might really want to find out what isotope shrimp tastes like! What if it tastes really good and you just want more and more, and eventually you can't fall asleep because you glow in the dark, smell like shrimp,
He does not necessarily have a set of fixed beliefs about why he's doing what he's doing, in other words, but he sure likes the feeling of other people watching him do it. Sometimes, though, his publicity stunts do end up having a real effect on the United States, like when he drove some of the early momentum toward legalizing same-sex marriage by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as the mayor of San Francisc
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