Politics
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 […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
Read MoreA number of articles I’ve seen, along with opinions from certain syndicated columnists, make the case that the Covid-19 pandemic defeated Donald Trump. I have trouble swallowing that. The virus clearly shifted some votes, but I would argue that Donald Trump knocked himself right out of the Oval Office. The […]
Read MoreThe latest Congressional approval rating I’ve seen, from December, reveals that 15% of our citizens approve of the work of our Washington legislators. Fifteen percent? That high? Was the poll over-weighted with lobbyists, lawmakers’ relatives, and residents in mental institutions? Who isn’t aware that our proud career politicians, when they’re […]
Read MoreDonald Trump – Pro and Con A friend and former neighbor of mine, having read my first two blogs, emailed me asking if I was for, or against, Trump. That jolted me because I’d never thought in quite those terms. I’ve been focusing on a larger screen, one with Trump […]
Read MoreLet’s begin with a question. Is anything troubling you these days? Maybe the upcoming election? Or maybe the COVID-19 crisis? Or civil unrest? As for me, having watched last week’s final debate, I’m stewing about November 3. I’ve voted in more presidential elections than I care to count. The candidates […]
Read MoreWhen I was a student at the University of Wisconsin in the middle of the last century. I belonged for a time to an eating cooperative, the Green Lantern. In those days Wisconsin, beside being a fine academic institution, was known for a number of oddball things. Its Student Union […]
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