Reading time – 5:12 . . . – Updated July 20, 2020 Dave Nelsen is a colleague who penned the essay that follows and, at my request, is allowing me to post it for you. His message isn’t just timely; it’s going to remain urgent for a long time because this pandemic isn’t going away… [read more]
Reading time – 4:15 . . . I’ve been clubbing Republicans for a long time. Let me be fair to them and say, in all humility and from the heart, that every bit of it is deserved. I’ve called them things like “invertebrates” and “jellyfish” specifically for refusing the call from the very values they… [read more]
Watch this video from back in the good ol’ days. Drop mic. —————————– Call John Bolton whatever accurate and disparaging names you prefer, nothing in what he’s said in promoting his book strains belief. Trump is exactly what you know him to be. Drop mic again —————————– “WASHINGTON — Four months into a pandemic that… [read more]
Reading time – 4:43; Viewing time – 8:05 . . . “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., paraphrasing 19th century clergyman Theodore Parker. He was right, of course, but that bending isn’t guaranteed and it doesn’t happen accidentally. The moral arc will… [read more]
Reading time – 5:29; Viewing time – 9:32 . . . [Ed. note: Be sure to read the “Finally” section at the bottom, which was added after the video was recorded.] It’s the Economy, Stupid The White House announced (love that phrase – as though a building could talk) that it won’t update economic projections… [read more]
Reading time – 3:39 + 1:43 . . . Tomorrow is Memorial Day – a formal day of remembrance for those who did their duty, put their lives on the line and died defending America. The flag-draped coffins continue to arrive at Dover, Delaware and, with the healthcare mess we’re in, it will take extra… [read more]
Reading time – 5:36 . . . Part 1. Healthcare Wake-Up The Kaiser Family Foundation just reported that, “. . . nearly 27 million people will lose health insurance as a result of being laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Some will go on the ACA exchanges; the majority will wind up on Medicaid; and… [read more]
Reading time – 4:12; Viewing time – 6:53 . . . My mother was a teen during the Great Depression and came of age during WW II. She was from that generation. Tom Brokaw dubbed it The Greatest Generation and the label stuck, this for obvious reasons. This was a generation without a sense of… [read more]
Reading time – 4:36 . . . It’s plain to see that the President of the United States is, at best, severely dragging feet to deal with our national health emergency. He was warned repeatedly (over a dozen times) in his President’s Daily Briefs as far back as January that this pandemic would happen. The… [read more]
Reading time – 3:23 . . . The population of the United States makes up approximately 4% of the of the total world population. Yet we have managed to have 32.3% of all coronavirus cases and 26.7% of all coronavirus deaths on the planet. Even if all the illness and deaths in the New York… [read more]
