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Political Correctness, continued
As I said when posting my recent quiz on political correctness (see it here), I knew little about the term. At the time of that posting, PC was just a mild annoyance to me, probably because I don’t like others telling me how to talk (I prefer to put my own words in my mouth). […]
Political Correctness: A Quiz
I’m not well-versed in political correctness (see discussion here). In fact, this post is intended to be a learning experience for me, and maybe for readers as well. To this end, I’ve come up with a little beginner’s quiz, an imperfect tool to ease gently into the subject and maybe even discover a few basic […]
Examining “Shrinkflation”
Are you as inattentive when shopping as certain manufacturers think you are? Or have you noticed that many grocery items are appearing in smaller packages these days? It’s a neat trick, this shrinkflation, because even if the price per package doesn’t increase, the food inside a shrunken container obviously costs more. I first spotted this […]
Wuhan Waltz #3
As I indicated in my earlier posts on the Wuhan Institute of Virology ( A and B), I believe evidence suggests that this laboratory was the origin of Covid-19. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Dr. Robert Redfield (a virologist, and former director of the CDC) and Dr. Marc Siegel (clinical professor […]
Rounding up Reindeer
Although I’ve inhaled the pure air of Finland for no more than a few months, I’ve had an array of happy adventures while there. If you’ve read other posts in this blog, you may recall I’ve flown above Finland’s magical countryside on Midsummer Eve, watching bonfire after bonfire being set ablaze along the shores of […]
Ranking Russian Novelists
I was an undergraduate when I read The Brothers Karamazov, my first Russian novel. I powered through that mighty book in one intense weekend, shielded from interruptions by the closed door of my small room. Never before had a novel affected me like Dostoevsky’s classic. Its effect lingered for weeks. I followed up with Crime […]
Group Think
I apologize for the lack of activity here for two long weeks. I’m working on other projects and haven’t taken time to post anything fresh here. Yesterday, Independence Day, I heard someone sputter about “group think”, a common phrase these days. But when I heard the words yesterday, they set off that frustrating feeling you […]
John D. MacDonald
Do you know of John D. MacDonald? He was a highly prolific 20th Century writer with amazing talents. He usually is classified as a mystery writer, or a writer of crime and suspense novels, genres I’m not a fan of, but MacDonald was a master storyteller. His characters cleverly untangle themselves from the page and […]
Wuhan Waltz Addendum
This evening, while flipping through television stations, I watched a segment reporting that Vanity Fair recently published an extensive article on the origin of the Covid-19. I easily located that article online and found it to be filled with many specifics, along with a narrative of how certain events have unfolded. The dateline of the […]
The Wuhan Waltz
I have never understood why certain groups of scientists boisterously denounce the possibility that Covid-19 might have been genetically engineered by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Are they blind? After all, that laboratory is located in the very city where the virus was first discovered, and that laboratory was known to be investigating dangerous varieties […]
