1964. I must have spent a month of Sundays with my friends at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. And, then, school began.
Continue reading A Storied Hotel and a Sordid Tale
An appropriate time to begin this discussion. Today is the day chosen (hoping folks would forget) to begin the impeachment (redux) of Donald Trump.
Continue reading It Ain’t Over.
This is the fourth of five updates on the pandemic. Monday will be the last in this miniseries. (I've posted about 30 articles on the virus and the pandemic.)
Continue reading The rush for a vaccine
An experiment of sorts. Today’s blog is below- in video or written formats. Your choice!
Continue reading Radical Constitutionalist
We’re going to do a little thought experiment today. A concept that goes back to ancient Jewish heritage. (Aesop liked it enough to copy the concept.)
Right after the Iron Curtain fell, I found myself attending another annual international medical conference, this time in Vienna. (I won’t bother going into how ‘well’ the Viennese treated me- NOT.)
The trick to burying the news is to release it on a holiday or later in the afternoon on a Friday. So, what better day should TheDonald pick to release a long-awaited report discussing how America (and the world) is failing to tame the climate change issues than on the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving?
Continue reading Bury the lead?
I have decided to interrupt my queue, my discussion of millennials and their issues. To join in with several hundreds of others for today’s discussions, as proposed by the Boston Globe.
Continue reading Definitely NOT Stop the Presses
OK. I am going to show my age. Not that I shy from it- I’ve earned the stripes I own. But, back when I was younger, I had to lie and say I was older. So that folks would take me seriously. (Yes, I passed for 18, 21, and 30 long before people faked ID’s to get a drink of booze- for business reasons.)
Continue reading Seeing <> Believing
I was talking with my friend the other day on the phone. And, since he called me, I had to hit the mute button on my sound system. (I was doing work, which meant I had a few TV’s blaring- plus the radio.) When I do that, the “screensaver” comes on the TV and news headlines stream.
Continue reading I remember him.
