26 Mar, 2020
The virus is our teacher
“Last Sunday at 11 a.m. I went for a walk. Even if it’s nothing special, a walk isn’t a normal...
26 Mar, 2020
A Citizens’ Call to Invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment
“Mike Pence for president. While in normal circumstances I would never endorse him, between now and January 20, 2021, I...
24 Mar, 2020
The World’s Major Military and Economic Powers Find Happiness Elusive
“Long before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic left people around the world desperate for survival, a popular assumption emerged...
23 Mar, 2020
Do You Want to Wait until Your Town Is Out of Medical Supplies?
“Other questions to consider might be: Do you want to learn that there are no available tests for Coronavirus…” Ellen...
22 Mar, 2020
The truth on COVID-19 is ugly and the lies are deadly
“On March 19th, the gutless depravity of failed leadership found a new poster-boy. Republican Senator Richard Burr was found…” Wim...
20 Mar, 2020
Creative empathy in a pandemic
“One thing about a pandemic: It’s inclusive. We cannot survive it, move beyond it, by protecting merely some people. We...
19 Mar, 2020
Social distancing? Peace and social justice demand more coming together, not more distancing
“”Social distancing” (or maybe more properly “appropriate physical spacing”) is something people everywhere need to practice in the near term...
19 Mar, 2020
Derelict Leadership on Health Security
“If one event shows both Trump’s flawed character and his ineptitude, it would have to be his handling of the...
19 Mar, 2020
Take Heart! Humans are Amazing
“There are some things you’d can’t fight with the barrel of a gun. Pandemics are one of them. In times...
19 Mar, 2020
Boomer remover
“Yes, some kids, believing they are immune to COVID-19, actually appear to be celebrating the spread among the “Boomers” who...
18 Mar, 2020
Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian Message
“U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the...
17 Mar, 2020
Nukes: The unmentionable election issue: Getting to zero
“Where are the Democrats? Why isn’t the present nuclear danger front and center in the Democrats’ presidential debates? I can...
15 Mar, 2020
Trump’s Budget Proposal Reveals His Values
“It is often said that government budgets are “an expression of values.” Those values are clear in the Trump administration’s...
12 Mar, 2020
American unexceptionalism & COVID-19
“During the SARS-1 epidemic scare in 2002-4, America invaded Iraq. If you followed science, you would know that SARS-1, was...
11 Mar, 2020
War, profit and the coronavirus
“If you want expertise, don’t bother reading any further here. I know as much about coronavirus as any stunned disbeliever...