A Tornado Hits the Park Across the Street
2020-08-11 – It’s always seemed that weather forecasts have been over hyped. They forecast rain every day this week, but it only rains once. They forecast 8 inches of snow […]
Author Archives: eightoh9
Trump’s Focus on the COVID Fatality Ratio Is Very Revealing
2020-08-03 – We didn’t really need the Axios interview with Donald Trump to know that he was getting the his COVID response all wrong. It’s just one of many opportunities […]
The Truth That Rich People Don’t Want You to Know
2020-08-03 – They talk a lot about competition and the invisible hand of Adam Smith and, yes, selfishness. Selfishness and invisible hands are what created the marvels of the modern […]
Dear Lori Lightfoot: I’m Confused
2020-07-24 – Dear Mayor Lightfoot: I’m confused. Trump threatens to send his storm troopers to Chicago and you supposedly say no. But then you agree to take DEA and FBI […]
A Federal Police Force??? Wait??? What???
2020-07-23 – The weirdest thing happened. Last month the idea of defunding the cops was all the rage (“rage” being a literal term). There was a lot of push back, […]
Where is the NRA Now that Trump Is Attacking Citizens?
2020-07-22 – For years the NRA told us that we needed to accept one of the highest death tolls from gun violence as “the price of freedom.” We were told […]
The Un-Masking of Donald Trump
2020-07-21 – I’m sure that many of his followers were relieved to see the Donald in a mask. Contrary to conventional wisdom, these people are not stupid, just human. They’ve […]
If Good Health Were Contagious
2020-07-16 – It was time for my decennial colonoscopy, so I went. People said that you should delay nonessential medical treatment during the pandemic. Till when? And if decennial colonoscopies […]
A Plague on Both Your Houses?
2020-07-15 – I have to admit: I don’t know who Bari Weiss is. I’m not good with names. But the right-wing intelligentsia is up in arms over her resignation as […]
If the Deep State Is So Deep and Powerful . . .
2020-07-14 – If the deep state is so deep and powerful, why doesn’t it ever win? And why does the deep state always seem to employ the kind of tactics […]
