This posting got lost. Wrote it yesterday, when we still had an Acting Secretary of the Navy. Are you still watching the President’s daily reality show? I can’t take my eyes off it. If this was a movie it would fail miserably. Implausible. No one would act that way, and if they would they would never have been elected! Preposterous. But I thought Christian Bail was good. Couldn’t recognize him. Today was fascinating. The President Read more…
While the virus is the single topic worthy of the news, or offshoots from it, there is another event in the background that is starting to define issues that will define specific camps. The election is out there, but it is threatened. While Trump takes the opportunity to take the stump on a daily basis, it isn’t as effective as his rallys, not as validating to his ego, as many of the press are simply Read more…
Just couldn’t do it yesterday. Couldn’t write. There is nothing new. Our government has let us down, fatally. There is no spin, no silver lining. I interact on Facebook and find there are tons of people that are still his supporters, still cheerleading this monster, quaking with the opportunity to vote for him again. If you are not seeing this, too, then you have successfully created an impenetrable bubble. They are out there in the Read more…
This is relentless! Shouldn’t it have stopped by now? It’s out in the open, exposed, gruesomely naked. The President’s mishandling will be remembered forever, or as long as we have a history, anyway. This would be where shame would kick in for a normal human being, and corrective steps would be put in hyper-drive, all out effort, full court press, and so on… Still nothing. Yesterday’s sound bites included “we’re the backup” for the states, Read more…
I have a dear friend at work. He is my age, a huge teddy bear of a man. He is an elder in a black evangelical church and his life is defined by his relationship with God. He is nearly my only progressive ally at work, it is Virginia after all. We get away by ourselves and commiserate over the latest atrocity by the Administration. He is my life support. He sent me a lovely Read more…
I have decided to treat this time at home as my retirement. I honestly believe it is as close as I’m going to get, as the real thing passed me by. When the virus is controlled to the extent it is going to be, and our economy rises like the Phoenix as Dr. Trump has assured us it will, I am just a tad sceptical of quite how high it will soar. Scores of businesses Read more…
This is more of a chat, I guess. Random thoughts from a day in the life of Corona. If you have read any of this before, you know in the famous words of CSN&Y (are you old enough?) I’m scared shitless. Not terribly old at 62, but over the Mendoza Line, I suffered a heart attack back in 2004, so that underlying issue is there. My lifestyle contributes to my risk, meaning simply that I Read more…
Sitting on the balcony. Gorgeous day. A sleepy Sunday in Richmond, VA. Spring has sprung here. The birds are ecstatic, constant motion and sound, celebrating the abundance, the deliverance from a season of want, of need. The squirrels are playing, chasing each other for no other reason than it’s fun to run on a sunny spring day. The insects have emerged from their emergent state, breaking out to pollinate or annoy, each to its purpose, Read more…
So, on Thursday I used the last of my coffee. No problem, I thought, just go to the grocery store and do a weekly shopping trip and load up on supplies. But I couldn’t do it. I was paralyzed to open the door and walk outside. I decided I would wake up early and go first thing in the morning when the traffic would presumably be lighter. But I didn’t. I stayed up watching documentaries Read more…
How can this be real? I am on FB and I still am fighting with naysayers. Within an hour we will pass Italy for number of reported cases. They have been one of the most dramatically effected countries on the planet, but they will be behind us. There are human beings you walk past every day on the street that think this is a hoax. The President is suing a PAC for running an ad Read more…