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 […]

Last night was the Golden Globes. Of course, I did not watch, I never do, I don’t care, but as a news junky, I do read the aftermath of this and many other similar occasions, so my impressions all come through the same general filter. In this regard, the Internet media is part and parcel […]

A regular Wednesday feature that takes a summary look at hot news issues surrounding Trump during the past week. As of this week, the Trump Scorecard will become the occasional if at all feature of hot issues surrounding Trump during the past week. For most of Trump’s Presidency, there has been a regular feed of […]

A regular Wednesday feature that takes a summary look at hot news issues surrounding Trump during the past week Where Trump’s initiatives should succeed: Ivanka to Europe | This is the image burnishing trip that can only improve our standing with a skeptical and dismissive European elite, particularly German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, after her frosty […]