I don’t think Billy Joel had today’s example of cognitive dissonance in mind when he wrote his song. Whatever he meant, reality is now in the eye of the beholder, and it’s sliding in the most ironic way possible. Today, New York Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, since

“Throughout the historic pandemic, Amazon has repeatedly and persistently failed to comply with its obligation to institute reasonable and adequate measures to protect its workers from the spread of the virus in its New York City facilities,” New York state Attorney General Letitia James wrote in a complaint filed on Tuesday in the state Supreme Court.

Now I’ll confess I’m unaware of Amazon’s practices during this pandemic. But I’m also quite confident that Amazon is being targeted for political purposes, the most obvious is that the pathway for NY Attorney Generals to become Governor is via suing some big company and extracting their pound of flesh. But the chutzpah in this situation is that the NY state government, specifically Gov Cuomo, is under fire for repeatedly lying about the pandemic and the state’s response, in addition to his infamous order that nursing homes had to take Covid-19 patients. How many lives were lost because of state leaders playing politics with the virus? Even progressives are now turning their guns on him. So where is Ms. James’ lawsuit against Governor Cuomo?