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How Do You Judge an Accusation?

Here we are again, smack in the middle of another dysfunctional—and with COVID-19 raging, I mean REALLY dysfunctional—Presidential campaign. They just aren’t fun anymore. Having been born during the advent […]

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Rest-of-World Healthcare?

So let’s see, what’s been in the news this week? World’s ugliest dog named in California. Three moose refusing to leave a Tim Horton’s drive-thru in Newfoundland. (Seriously.) Anything else? Nothing?

Oh yeah, health care in America…

I’ve promised this blog won’t be overtly political and I intend to keep to that. However, my Twitter feed is radiating like plutonium with a lot of angry tweets from all sides of this debate. Some of these include wildly inaccurate statements about European/Canadian/Aussie/Most Other Decent Country health care.

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This Is the End…

[I’ve decided this will be my last Coronavirus Journal post, having reached a kind of reverse pandemic nirvana. These journal entries were intended to keep me from getting bored to […]

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Maybe I Like People After All?

[I’m as confused as you are about why some states are “reopening”—whatever that means—when the USA is still on the upslope with new COVID-19 infections and deaths. We continue to […]

Best/Worst of Times

[The USA hasn’t plateaued yet with new coronavirus infections or, sadly, COVID-19 deaths. We still lead the world in both, as the new USA tab on the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus […]

Hitting Pause

[The USA just surpassed Italy and China with the most COVID-19 deaths in the world. Not the kind of “winning” the Current Occupant of the White House has in mind, […]

Groundhog Day

[It’s bad and getting worse, we all know that now. News out of New Orleans this week that Ellis Marsalis, Jr., the piano player, teacher, and patriarch of an amazing […]

Life in the Time of Corona

[Looks like I’m the Harbinger of Coronavirus—three cities I once lived in or near are having their turns in the crosshairs of COVID-19: Chicago, on the outskirts of whose Greater […]

Tales from the Edge

[I just read the Sunday Washington Post and was stunned by the horrible coronavirus news from northern Italy—where Kay-Kay and I lived for three years with our kids back in […]

The Art of Social Distancing

[I was planning to do a post for St Patrick’s Day, but the leprechauns got preempted by a more insidious little green creature, the coronavirus. I’m assuming they’re green–and why […]