I present an amplification to some earlier thoughts re: the Coronavirus pandemic. In the first week or two or three of the crisis, there were some ways that we had unusual cooperation. I described this as a ‘quiet’. Of course, there was some dissent and of course always politics, but we all started out with […]

In deeply polarized news media, social media, and among vocal consumers of the same that form an equally visible participatory feed-back loop, I’m observing unwritten ‘rules’ of engagement that are deeply flawed. Here are a few of them: First. When a major media outlet publishes a story first (obscure outlets don’t count), they assume unto […]

A next installment of C-19 ruminations was prepared and left to the wayside. This one is more needful. I’ve had a sense of discomfort throughout most of the pandemic lockdown, not due to the discomforts of upset to daily life and restriction (even as my circumstances are really quite livable). I’ve felt a gnawing lack […]

In a life of government directed quarantine, we’re mostly helpless to do anything but our own protective isolation. Given the option of civil penalty and the transparent factors that lead to widespread social animosity; people screaming at the stupidity of covert gatherings, why buck against that? We’re also helpless to speak into the economy. It’s […]

Trillions of words are already expended on the immediate coronavirus but not so much beyond the immediate emergency motions. Here is a loose rendition thereof, a part I.  I’ll start where a lot of others will probably end; where are we headed? ‘Memento mori’; or ‘Remember that you must die’, attributed to Socrates. The matter […]

So much water under the bridge since my last post… Gainful employment hampered regular posts but that is now interrupted by an epidemic. I had also vowed to myself to limit political commentary, particularly as it involves Trump. Finally, there is something more dominating I’m sorry to say. In place of public sparing, I’ll ramble […]