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Thursday night, two networks offered a choice at 8 p.m.: Town halls with former Vice President Joe Biden on ABC; and with President Donald J. Trump on NBC. If you could watch only one, which would it be? Me? Trump, of course, to maximize the chance of seeing or
Face masks
Let’s admit there is something about face mask requirements that really doesn’t add up. Some of you won’t agree, but most people understand that masks offer some degree of protection. You can argue about how much, but would you be happy if your surgeon and OR staff
Coronavirus
Having suffered the highest death toll in Europe, more than 27,000, and still in Phase One, total lockdown, Italy is moving gingerly toward Phase Two, slowly opening. “Phase 3 is going to be the criminalization of the contagion,” journalist Nicola Mirenzi wrote on the news website Linkiesta. “The pandemic
Coronavirus
When the Smithfield meat packing plant went down last week, shutting an amazing 5% of pork production, and we were told there would be no disruptions in our food supply chain, I said to myself, “that ain’t kosher.” Now we are told there will be a disruption in what
Coronavirus
The civil disobedience movement, if you can call it that, is slowly spreading as the Great Isolation expands from days to weeks to months. The “social distance” wall is cracking, despite Dr. Deborah Birx’s warning that we will have -- must have -- social distances through the summer. Like
Coronavirus
There sure was deliberate stupidity at the Thursday news briefing at which President Donald J. Trump seemed to endorse bombarding human bodies with ultraviolet light and possibly injecting household detergents into the human body to fight the COVID-19 virus. He did not actually say that, although you could see Dr.
Coronavirus
Here’s a big thank you to Sweden for volunteering to be a pandemic guinea pig. The small (10 million) Scandinavian nation decided to plot its own route, declining to join its neighbors, and most of the West, in quarantine, by not locking down its citizenry and halting its economy.
Coronavirus
President Donald J. Trump had a dream, a beautiful dream, that somehow the World War III we are fighting would end within weeks so that churches would be “packed’ for Easter. “One day it will disappear,” he said of the plague. (And homes could be packed for Passover a few
Politics
Impeachment has barely begun and if you’ve been following it, as I have, you are probably sick of it. In order to wrap my mental arms around it, I turned to a primer by Ellie Silverman, that answered a question I had, one that opens a page to a
Humor
This is today’s Sunday Funny. You know the rules here: If it makes me laugh, it gets used. Jokes don’t have to be true, but this one gets pretty close to the truth. The man once known — thanks to his stellar performance in the wake of 9/11
Politics
I like this cartoon, even if I don’t agree with its theme — that Republicans and Democrats are interchangeable. They are not. What I will say is this: If the Democrats manage to remove President Trump, they will get President Pence. They don’t get the White House, as the
Politics
This column is rated R The talking heads can’t even agree on what a favor is. Does it require reciprocity? If a “favor” requires payback, is it still a “favor”? That’s not how I roll. But I am not President Trump, who actually used the word “reciprocal” in