A year of terrible things, but… — There is a 1960s song whose chorus proclaims: darkness, darkness. Those were turbulent times for certain, but today the darkness seems to hit closer to home on a daily basis. In my case, the racist killing of ten and wounding of three at a Buffalo grocery store (11 victims were…

Moving on — For Michelle Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Deep, right? It’s going to be a hot one; you can feel it even in the cool, damp, early morning air. The birds know it and I couldn’t tell you why I know that. …

Why are we ignoring this discovery? — April 2020. In my part of the country Covid is a raging unknown killer and we are desperate to find a way to slow its progress. We go into lockdown across our communities. We stop going into work and school. We mask and walk wide circles around each other when…

Stop the Steal was not just about 2020 — All I could think was, oh shit. Trump’s instincts are the most dangerous thing in America right now. They told him to tell Dr Oz to start claiming the Pennsylvania primary election was rigged, even before the final results were in. Now we know what the MAGA playbook is and…

He made a massive miscalculation — A major Russian strategic reason behind the Ukraine war was reining in NATO. Ukraine was making noises about joining the alliance and Putin knew he could not let that happen or he would never realize his fantasy of unifying the old Soviet state. It would mean a long border with…

Can they control this? — I want you to consider a scenario regarding control freaks, those people who must have everything the way they want it. In this scenario those people run a huge country, extremely powerful, and an economic powerhouse. We’re talking about China, of course, the 21st century juggernaut. The leadership is steering…

But on a far greater scale — “It was like following a thread that connected to an enormous tapestry, which was how I felt about the surveillance cameras. When I counted the devices in my local subway station, at Dongmen Daqiao, I saw fifteen cameras at track level, forty-seven at the turnstiles, and thirty-eight for the escalators…

The sanctions you may not be aware of — Early in the Ukraine invasion the West imposed serious sanctions on the Russian aeronautics business. Flights in and out of Russia were curtailed. But that was not the big sanction. We stopped selling and shipping airplane parts to Russia. Russia is a physically huge country. Flying inside Russia is critical…

I was wrong- it is embedded in our lives — I watch the numbers daily and they are up, way up. I wrote about that and how we just didn’t want to deal with it. I did not think anyone would read that piece. Several thousand did. I am happy to say it appears I was wrong about Covid apathy…