The world watches the corona virus, as China, COVID’s purveyor, enlarges its power base
As everyone is busily hanging on every word the media gushes over us about the Chinese virus, we are so taken in by the reports, updated hourly, that most everyone has lost sight of what is taking place behind the nebulous curtain of news and psycho-babble. China,...
Many are the ways in which the Corona virus extorts wealth or, how enforced solitude invites materialism
We all know the material costs of dealing with the epidemic—the huge supplies needed to keep people safe, hygienic, and, supplied with life-saving ventilators and drugs. Then there is the economy—it is ticking along anemically, loosing billions every week because of...
The Corona Virus stimulus package—a power-grab for Washington
A Curse on Both Houses
Musings about China’s Corona Virus
As my entire social life is concentrated in a small circle of healthy people, all shut off, I have ample time to peruse the many problems associated with viruses. Almost every flu epidemic plaguing the world had its antecedents in China or Asia. Some time ago I read...
The virus creates its very own potentates
It seems that the new circumstances of our lives make some governors believe that they are now invested with all kinds of powers and privileges—that the capabilities of the virus empower them to act with the force of dictators. Listening to the news, you might have...
We can’t all quit—today draconian rules and isolation—tomorrow what?
Ever since I came to America, I have found Americans to be the kindest people on the planet. They co-operate, they give money to good causes and, they give freely of themselves. They have a can-do spirit and the freedom to operate in a manner allowing them to...
What China could not do through business and politics, it achieved with a small virus
Viruses, bacteria and fungal-driven illnesses have been plaguing man since time immemorial. But never has a virus shut down the entire world. Yet, China, with one small virus managed to eviscerate its enemy and competitor by turning a virus loose from its...
Democrats unveiled—think and believe as we do—or else
No Republican ever threatened the members of the Supreme Court to influence one of their decisions. Oh, they hinted and wished that things would go their way, but they never issued threats or refused to obey the law instituted by the court. Although, there had been...
Malaise and Ennui of the protected or the American taxpayer and the folks in Europe
For as long as I can remember, America was the shield between Russia, the former Soviet Union, and West Germany. I grew up in the secure knowledge that if Russia’s military would cross the border, American might would protect Germany, and with it, all of Europe. I...
Women’s health issues that are ignored
Lately, it’s that time of life, I find myself discussing subjects with women friends that are never spoken of anywhere else. They are the things so often couched in the vague term female problems. And, as our hormonal and anatomical changes are of no interest to...
Our brave new world without binary males and females
“All sexual activity arises in the brain,” said one of my psychology professors over forty years ago. In that statement he included how people see themselves other than the binary male and female state of their biology. Biology determines the sex with which we are...
Decorum and behavior—signs of a person’s inner worth
During a long good life, I have had the opportunity to study and observe many cultures, societies and single individuals. Studying anthropology, I am familiar with many cultures and societies. In the best of them, not always the ones we deem civilized, my colleagues...