Archives for 2020

I was a never-Trumper in 2016. Since then, I watched as he performed on issue after issue important to conservatives and prosperity, not a perfect record, but far more than I expected. But as much as those issues, I watched attempted smear after attempted smear, watched big media lie after lie, to then conclude that […]

I’m not a pandemic denier, neither am I into conspiracies with this caveat: Accusations of conspiracy mongering are the first defense for those pretending that facts in plain sight don’t exist; institutionalized mass gaslighting of the public. Now that that much is clear, I believe in masks for controlling Covid 19, sort of. If my […]

I’m as vexed as any moderate/conservative to see the state of the nation right now. The first anomaly is that there really are no moderates anymore and I use that term just to differentiate from the masses flocking to the fringes. But such is our polarized time that all of us have been forced and […]

When Covid-19 made its first run for it in early March, emanating from the West Coast (or so we thought at the time), I made the private declaration that we should just focus on treatment and not get caught up in the great worries about transmission. My rational at the time was that, while it […]

Everyone has the same wish regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, that it should be gone. As soon as it started, everyone speculated on how it should or could be brought low and banished. More recently, Fauci and others have started speculating one way or another, if it will be brought to a halt by a decisive […]

For a long time, I’ve had an inkling that certain friends and acquaintances had an unusual relationship with their newspaper, the New York Times. As a news junky of humble means, I subscribe to no paper but regularly pick up stories from maybe close to 100 online periodicals via aggregators. These include some New York […]