Category: U.S. Politics
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, November 6, 2020, or: The NaNoWriMo Project vs. Biden-Trump Heebie-Jeebies
Hi, there, Dear Reader. As I start this post, it is just a bit past noon on Friday, November 6, 2020 here in my tiny corner of Florida. Currently, the temperature is 82˚F (28˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the east-northeast at 13 MPH (22 KM/H) and humidity at 71%, the…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, November 4, 2020, or: Taking a Rest Day on Account of Election Anxiety
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s Wednesday, November 4, 2020, and it’s mid-afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida. Currently, the temperature is 79˚F (26˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the east-northeast at 16 MPH (25 KM/H) and humidity at 53%, the feels-like temperature is 79˚F (26˚C). Tonight’s forecast calls for clear skies…
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Thoughts & Musings for Tuesday, November 3, 2020, or: It’s Election Day!
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida on Election Day (November 3, 2020). Currently, the temperature is 76˚F (24˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 54% and a northeasterly breeze blowing at 13 MPH (21 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is…76˚F (24˚C). Today’s forecast calls for a high of 76˚F…
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More Musings & Thoughts for Monday, October 26, 2020, or: Of Abbreviated Walks and Trumpian Cowardice
Hello again from New Hometown, Florida, where it is now late (9-11) morning. The temperature rose several degrees since I last chimed in; it’s now 78˚F (26˚C) under partly sunny skies – according to my PC’s Weather app, anyway. With humidity at 82% and the wind blowing from the northeast at 4 MPH (7 KM/H),…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, October 19, 2020: Of Clouds – Metaphorical and Otherwise – Over My Head
Good afternoon, Dear Reader. It’s a bit after 3 PM here in New Hometown, Florida, and apparently a cold front must be passing through; outside, the temperature is 73˚F (23˚C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at 96% and the wind blowing from the east-northeast at 14 MPH (23 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 73˚F…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: The Pandemic Keeps Claiming Lives, But Trump Scoffs at Scientists & Biden’s Reliance on Facts
Life in the Time of COVID-19: The Never-Ending Spread Goes On…and On This is how things look on the planet Earth on the morning of October 19, 2020 vis a vis the COVID-19 pandemic. 40,118,314 officially confirmed cases worldwide. 1,114,765 officially confirmed deaths worldwide. In the United States of America, the nation that prides itself…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: Dispatches from the Edge of Insanity
It is mid-afternoon on Thursday, October 15, 2020. According to the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the latest global pandemic statistics (active cases and deaths)look like this. As of 3:24 PM Eastern Time, there were 38,744,784 cases of known COVID-19 infections and 1,094,979 deaths…
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Election 2020: Fear, Divisiveness, and Unlogic in the Time of COVID-19
Hello, there, Dear Reader. Greetings from New Hometown, Florida, where – for the moment, anyway – it’s beginning to look like autumn. Or for what passes as “autumn” in the subtropics. Currently, the temperature outside is 70˚F (21˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 94% and a becalmed wind of 0 MPH (2 KM/H),…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: Fall, Winter Outlook is Bleak, No Matter How Much Trump Pretends Otherwise
It is Tuesday, October 13, 2020, and as the tenth month of the year nears its halfway point, here’s where we are vis a vis the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19. As of 9:24 AM Eastern, the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, October 11, 2020: Deeds, Not Words, and Coping with Depression
Hello, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida, and it is shaping up to be another summer-like day on this Sunday, October 11, 2020. Outside, the temperature outside is 86˚F (30˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 79% and a southwesterly breeze blowing at 10 MPH (16 KM/H), the heat index…
A Certain Point of View, Too 