Yesterday’s news was filled with images of Vice President Pence visiting the Mayo Clinic – and its COVID-19 patients, sans face mask.I don’t get it. He was quoted as saying, “As vice president of the United States, I’m tested for the coronavirus on a regular basis, and everyone who is around me is tested for the …
Negative. That is all. 🙂
Shortly before 2:00 p.m. yesterday, one of our great employees at our little country-convenience store let us know that she’d tested positive for COVID-19. She only works for us a day and a half per week, as she has another full-time position, but she’s extremely valued. She reports that she’s feeling okay, although has a …
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And now, a guest blog from Don:Yesterday, I had a “cough window” installed at the cashier counter at Erica Mall. Coming or going, aerosol pathogens will no longer have a direct route to the mouths and noses of employees or customers, which is a good thing. I had one instruction for the pros that installed …
We’re faced with a crisis in our country, the likes of which I’ve never seen in my (ugh) 70th year on this earth. I should use the plural: crises. We have a health care crisis of extraordinary proportions, one shared with the rest of the world. We also have a leadership crisis, the likes of …
We live in a not-large home, a weird, 16-sided (hexadecagon, for purists) designed by my father and based on a low-income house plan (he’d read that round houses are good in hurricanes). My parents essentially built it themselves back in the mid-1970s (complete with the then-popular harvest gold). Half of the house (well, technically, 7/16) …
The New York Times has recently published a quiz to help folks determine with which Democratic candidate they are most closely aligned. The Washington Post had a similar quiz last month. The papers had different approaches, different questions, but the same goal: What candidate agrees with my views? For those of us who are disgusted and …
This morning, I posted the following on my Facebook page:I am extremely uncomfortable with pundits criticizing Trump’s defense team on the basis of people they have previously represented. I don’t care if they’ve represented Epstein or O.J. Everyone is entitled to a defense. Period. Yep, even Trump. The discussion has been a bit surprising to …
A friend – whom I like personally, but disagree with politically – recently posted a meme with remarkable inaccuracies. Let’s break the claims down one-by-one. The meme includes a picture of Osama bin Laden, with 11 distinct claims of victory “18 years after 9/11”. 1. You teach Islam in your public schoolsResponse: No more than we …
I’m weary of the memeification of false facts. Memes seem to have taken over Facebook, and to a lesser extent, Twitter. Over the past week, I’ve responded to memes purporting to state “facts” which aren’t true. The first related to Trump’s alleged economic achievements related to the black community; the second related to alleged compensation/spending …