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No Words

It has been 19 years since the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.  I’ve been trying for two hours trying to decide what to write.  Today I have no words.  Nothing I’ve been able to come up with has even come close.  There’s simply too much owed to too many

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COVID Testing is Potentially Useless

COVID testing is a huge business and people are making fortunes from performing the tests.  But, any information that can be gleaned from testing is practically useless.  Unfortunately, politicians use that faulty, and misleading data to make decisions that impact everyone. Politicians are using the number of positive tests to

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Cause and Effect

As you know, I’m a big believer in personal accountability.  Maybe it’s my mid-western upbringing but I believe that I alone am responsible for whatever, good or bad, results from my actions.  People doing stupid things and then whining because they don’t like the results really irk me.  The riots

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Spokesman for the People

I’m always a bit confused when the media goes to Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton to get the viewpoint of the Black Community.  Unless I’m mistaken, one or two people don’t speak for an entire race.  In fact, they’re no more qualified to speak for all black people than I

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Anonymous Sources

There was a time when the media deserved our trust.  We believed that they carefully researched things to find facts that led to the truth.  When you turned on the news or opened a paper, you trusted that you were going to get the truth, backed up by facts. There

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Some Black Lives Matter

What do all these phrases have in common? Black Lives Matter All Black Lives Matter White Lives Matter Blue Lives Matter All Lives Matter The Entirety of Humanity is Significant If you said that these are all true, you are right. Any reasonable person would agree with you. No rational

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