May 29The National Rifle Association And The Face Of EvilThe party of Lincoln has lost its way. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” That line — from William Shakespeare’s 17th-century tragicomedy The Tempest — should have been inscribed in blood-red letters this weekend over the entrance to the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas…Uvalde4 min read
May 26The Death-Spangled Banner: Modern America’s Sad AnthemAnother massacre of schoolchildren. Another outpouring of thoughts and prayers. Another round of doing absolutely nothing to stop the madness. — Nothing will change. If the massacre of twenty small schoolchildren in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, in 2012 wasn’t enough to spur meaningful changes to America’s gun laws, then neither will the fresh murder yesterday of nineteen small schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas.Uvalde3 min read
Apr 26When Illness Intrudes, Up Your GameHarness the power of your health data “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” That’s the opening pitch to Moneyball, a movie I watched with my son on Netflix last week (the quote is from baseball legend Mickey Mantle). It’s based…Health7 min read
Apr 24Canada’s Long Covid HangoverIgnore the Twit-docs The waves of Covid variants keep on coming — we’re on the sixth iteration now, if you’re still keeping track. Nor are they likely to stop anytime soon, if past history is any guide. …Covid 197 min read
Apr 8It’s Not Your Heart That’s Failing — It’s Our Medical JargonDoctors should watch their language. A little over two years ago my elderly mother was admitted to hospital. Almost 90, she’d been short of breath for days — uncomfortable, perspiring, unable to sleep properly. Blood tests, a chest X-ray, and an echocardiogram followed; whereupon her doctor pronounced: “You have congestive…Medicine3 min read
Feb 21Two Days To Flatten The TruckersThe genius of Justin Trudeau The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf. Thomas Paine Asked by a reporter in April 2016 to explain quantum computing, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn’t hesitate: “OK, quite simply, normal computers work by…” he said, before halting…Covid 199 min read
Dec 28, 2021It’s Time To Bounce With This Pandemic — Not Against ItAlmost three years ago, as 2019 toddled into existence, I wrote an essay titled What Keeps Me Living. I garnered the princely sum of 200 bucks for that effort after it caught the attention of an editor in this space. It’s the only piece of writing for which I’ve ever…Life3 min read
Dec 26, 2021Stop The Testing. Stop The Mandates. Stop The Masking. And Joy To The World.Ignore the pandemic doomsayers. A very merry Christmas And a happy new year, Let’s hope it’s a good one Without any fear Happy Christmas (War is Over) The wind blows wherever it pleases. John 3:8 I dribbled this essay into my keyboard late on Christmas Eve after my kids had…Covid 196 min read
Nov 13, 2021Pandemic Forecast: Cloudy with a Risk of ChildrenIt’s high time we focused on what’s happening to our kids. Wish we could turn back time To the good old days When our mommas sang us to sleep… But now we’re stressed out Twenty One Pilots “Familiarity breeds contempt,” Mark Twain said. The front half of that witticism was…Children7 min read
Oct 20, 2021The Tomb of the Unseen PatientOut of sight, out of mind. Cloaked in early morning darkness, German paratroopers dropped from the heavens like murderous locusts, their stealthy descent betrayed by the roar of the Luftwaffe airplanes that had disgorged them over the Dutch landscape. It was May 10, 1940. Contemptuous of the Netherlands’ desperate efforts…Pandemic4 min read
