There are always impassioned young men who are quick to anger, who instantly deliver a snarl and vitriol, are over-eager to dominate and impatient for violence. Some remain that way for a very long time. They love their hate and anger and the rush of power they get from that, as their spittle flies. Ignorance… [read more]
Empathy v2.0
Addendum to Can We Stop Wringing Hands? Last Thursday President Biden borrowed portions of the speech I wrote for him and imposed a requirement for being vaccinated or tested at least weekly in most venues where the federal government has strong influence or control. He doesn’t have the power to require teachers, staff and school children… [read more]
I Know You Know This
You can’t be pro-life if you’re for capital punishment.* You can’t be pro-life if you want to cut food assistance for poor kids. You can’t be pro-life if you oppose medical help for poor people. You can’t be pro-life if you want to eliminate Social Security or Medicare and let our seniors suffer in poverty… [read more]
Primitive Fixes to Complex Problems
I knew a man who was born in the 1930s and who was raised on the south side of Chicago in the South Shore neighborhood. It was a thriving area and parts were quite wealthy, with grand boulevards and fabulous houses. By the 1960s it was blighted, often an urban war zone. Drugs were everywhere,… [read more]
Can We Stop Wringing Hands?
Economy Hand Wringing The August jobs report said that we added a net of “only” 235,000 jobs. That’s a big decrease from the 962,000 added in June and 1.05 million added in July. That has caused innumerable hand wringers to wail, sob and bemoan a looming catastrophe in our economy. The truth is that our… [read more]
From The Resolute Desk . . .
. . . in the Oval Office, The President of the United States . Folks, I’m here tonight to focus on patriotism, because we have some terrible things going on. it’s time for some straight talk. Our people are becoming infected with Covid-19 at a horrific and worsening rate. Over 1,500 of our fellow citizens… [read more]
Do You Smell What I Smell?
In another effort to quash the will of the majority of its citizens, the state of Texas passed a draconian anti-abortion law that effectively outsources law enforcement to vigilantes. The Supreme Court refused to issue an injunction to stop the law from taking effect before a full review of its breathtakingly unconstitutional provisions could be… [read more]
The “This Didn’t Have To Happen” File – v2
The teacher did what teachers do: she stood in front of the class in 70%-vaccinated Marin County, CA and taught. She read something to her class of elementary school kids, as usual. The only problem was that she was unvaccinated. Well, there was one other problem. She had been Covid symptomatic for two days before… [read more]
It’s Very Personal
From the “This Didn’t Have To Happen” File There are lots of Covid statistics. There are infection numbers and rates by state, by region, by country, by continent and worldwide. We get the same kind of breakdown for total deaths and for deaths based on whether the deceased were vaccinated. We get vaccination rates with… [read more]
Misplaced Political Power
Ghastly Governors To the right is a graphic that helps to explain the Florida section of my post last week. The key is to understand that Gov. DeSantis is just the loudest horrible governor; there are many more horribles, some nearly as loud and destructive, although Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been a bit quieter… [read more]
