Most folks connected with me on social media have only seen the occasional comment or link from me about how the SARS-CoV-2 crisis is being handled in the U.S., but have no idea that I’ve spent the last three weeks working on practical and citizen-available ways to improve the survival rates of our medical personnel […]
As of March first, 2020, “single-use” shopping bags have been banned in New York State, a bold but profoundly stupid measure intended (as usual) to “protect the environment.” As far as I can tell, this is a deeply misguided and politically motivated initiative that is bound to produce far more harm to the environment than […]
You can’t just believe in science when it says what you want.
We don’t actually need to worry about Trump doing the bidding of the < Russians/corporations/white supremacists/your bugbear here >. This isn’t because any particular suspected evil Trump-maker didn’t actually do the evil someone thinks they did to get him elected. Trump won’t be paying back any favors to ‘X’ simply because the man has welshed […]
In the ongoing bullshit-apocalypse that is modern American politics, it is de rigeur to point to any of our new president’s many faults for purposes of fear mongering or mockery: “He’s provoking China to start a nuclear war!”; “‘Great’ is his enormously favorite word!”; etc… However, between social media and a number of news outlets […]