Watching the numbers of Covid-19 cases grow around the world and in our little American corner of it is very revealing. About a week ago the United States had about one third of all the cases of the virus on the globe, but only a quarter of the fatalities. While Read more…
I’m in rarely travelled territory. I’m watching the Virtual Town Hall with President Trump on the Fox News Channel. If you’re going to write about what’s going on, sometimes you have to do a little dirty work, so here I am. The first thing I noticed about the format was Read more…
Many have suggested that after this upending moment in history, our former lives will be examined and found wanting. The priorities we once had will seem parochial, too small by half. Our mostly unbridled capitalism will look cruel, uninclusive, divisive. This could be the moment we see our failures, our Read more…
Michigan was on the march again yesterday. Well, a few hundred, but they were heavily armed, more so than when they had marched on the Capital and caused gridlock on the streets of Lansing just two weeks ago. Governor Gretchen Whitmer was the target of their ire, more specifically her Read more…
It may be premature, but sooner or later we will all be going back to work. There is no other way, and when we do there will be risks involved. The goal is to minimize them and to create an environment we can operate in and gradually grow into and Read more…
Leave it to Orange Julius to take the Defense Protection Act and turn it into a weapon against the American Worker. Meat packing plants are the latest hot spot on the landscape for Covid-19 infections, eclipsed only by Senior Living facilities. Thousands of people work in close proximity to each Read more…
He’s back, and nothing has changed. The President had a particularly disastrous weekend. After his nearly universally derided medical advice on Thursday, he took no questions on Friday and cancelled the briefings for the rest of the weekend. Instead, his Twitter account exploded with lies, vitriol and bombast. The highlight Read more…
Next chapter. Now what will he do? There was no briefing on Saturday. Friday’s briefing was brief and uni-directional. There was no question and answer period. I doubt we will see him today, Sunday. Someone got to him. You’re shooting yourself in the foot on the daily. All we got Read more…
One day we may look back on today, or at least these few days, as an inflection point of the 2020 election but you might not notice it unless you’re a political junky too. As you may be aware, the President had some curious medical speculations yesterday. It seems humans Read more…
The Donald wanted us to know that he is not a doctor, so he’s just thinking out loud, you know, but he’s got a great brain, so he was probably right. A report was presented that made a connection between elevated levels of heat, humidity and UV light and reduction Read more…