Unsurprisingly, stay-at-home orders in this time of corona are only making this shrinkage more acute. Read more.
Alas, Increasing Options to Entertain Causing Shrinking Usage of the Brain
Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 7:43 AM
Archives for April 2020
Covid-19: Exploiting the Legacies of Racism … and Poverty
Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 12:34 PM
Much is being made about the disparate impact Covid-19 is having on black communities throughout the United States. No less a person than the surgeon general highlighted this in black and white during a recent White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing. It was notable enough that Surgeon General Jerome Adams was the only black on… Read more.
Governments Should Use COVID-19 Lockdown to Build Up Crumbling Infrastructure
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 7:38 AM
The metastasizing nature of this virus has some political leaders continually extending stay-at-home orders; whereas it has others taking baby steps towards reopening their national economies. But, at this rate, most countries could be under some version of “The Great Lockdown” for a year – if not longer. Apropos of which, The United States may… Read more.
COVID-19 on ‘People’s Faces’
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 6:37 AM
Silver linings are hard to find in the midst of this coronavirus crisis. But CNN is providing one with its hauntingly inspirational commercial. This, because it features the poetically named slam-poet Kate Tempest performing voiceover excerpts from “People’s Faces” (2019). That poem ends as follows: Even when I’m weak and I’m breaking I stand weeping… Read more.
Boris ‘Brexits’ Hospital
Monday, April 13, 2020 at 8:09 AM
This corona crisis is replete with ironies. None more so than British Prime Minister Boris Johnson boasting about ignoring his own social-distancing guidelines only to end up in the ICU a few days later – infected with COVID-19. Johnson expressed his gratitude to the staff of the National Health Service for saving his life when… Read more.
Even the Captain of Fox News Station Is Fed-Up with Trump’s COVID-19 Briefings
Monday, April 13, 2020 at 7:27 AM
The White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings have become must-see TV. Perhaps you’re among the millions who tune in every day to watch. But that can only be for morbid diversion. After all, for over a month now, these daily briefings have been must-see only for the reason a train wreck would be. Specifically, they… Read more.
Happy Easter…
Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 7:50 AM
I know. But it clearly could be a lot worse. Read more.
Putin and MbS Used COVID-19 to Shutdown US Oil Producers. And Trump Was All Too Happy to Collude.
Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 9:34 AM
Trust me, it’s no accident that you are not benefiting from gas prices nearing 20-year lows. Because, if 95 percent of us were not under stay-at-home orders, prices would not be so. In the wake of the March meeting, Saudi Arabia and Russia moved to boost production in order to retain market share amid falling… Read more.
My New Book
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 8:09 AM
Dear Readers, This book was actually published on February 13 – just as the COVID-19 pandemic was hitting pandemonium. But I thought it would be unconscionable to mention it back then. Of course, anyone who knows me knows how loath I am to do any self-promotion even in the best of times, hence my steadfast… Read more.
COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders Triggering Domestic Violence
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 7:26 AM
In “Coronavirus: The Worldwide Lockdown” at March 14 below, I wrote about lockdowns triggering all kinds of unintended consequences. In addition to spikes in incidences of depression and suicides, I warned that they would create a “perfect storm for a wave of domestic abuse.” Sure enough: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, citing a [horrifying surge]… Read more.