Category: U.S. Politics
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: You Can’t Fix Stupid
Hello there, Dear Reader. Well, here we are on Thursday, August 13, 2020, and in my corner of Florida it is a hot summer morning. Currently, the temperature outside is 83˚F, but humidity at 87% and a south-southeasterly breeze blowing at 3 MPH with occasional gusts of 5 MPH, the feels-like temperatures are 99˚F in…
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Thoughts & Musings for July 29, 2020
Bits and Pieces of My Mind Well, here we are on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. It is mid-morning here in my corner of Florida, though by the time you read this it will be close to noon. Right now the temperature outside is 78˚F under cloudy skies; the little daylight streaming through my window is…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: Stupidity and Craven Disregard for Public Health …Two Things That Irk Me
Today the U.S. reached another unhappy milestone in the novel coronavirus pandemic: as of 4:30 this afternoon, 78,469 Americans – young, middle-aged, and elderly; rich, poor, famous and not famous – have died from COVID-19 in a four-month period. By way of comparison, the bloodiest post-World War II conflict in U.S. history resulted in 58,220…
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“These Times Try Men Souls…” Life in the COVID-19 Era
How will history remember how the United States and its government responded to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the first half of the year 2020? Will we – and the Administration of one Donald John Trump – be remembered as the Americans who faced a serious crisis with unity, determination, and courage? Or will…
