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 […]

News from the revolutionary front: ‘Comrades on the front and our captains in every major newsroom in the United States and our professors in every highly esteemed institution, have joined in heroic battle. They have committed to the enemy with bravery and persistence. They are role models. They have scored high level surrenders on an […]

From time to time, I make hard predictions. Most are written or spoken privately; a few make it to this page. They are comprised of observation, comparison, analysis, and ‘intuition’. I’m not in a contest so I have nothing at stake if they’re wrong, but I have enough confidence to put them out for consideration. […]

In a handful of past NER posts, I’ve mentioned the pulling down of monuments. While I can’t validate the probity of keeping or destroying every separate monument, I’m generally against their destruction in the US. It’s time to look at this is closer in light of the ‘woke’ revolution that we’re now in. It seems […]