Kicking Our Grandpas to the Curb

Kicking Our Grandpas to the Curb

Watching the horrific number of nursing home deaths at the beginning of the pandemic and the selfish, toddler-esque tantrums of the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, one gets the feeling that this country doesn’t care about its elderly.  And they would be right.  This...
Invisible No More?

Invisible No More?

Novelist Lisa Grunwald, an MS sufferer, wrote a touching article for The Atlantic about how when the country opens up, her friends will get back to traveling hither and yon while she and others who live with a variety of chronic illnesses will still be confined to...
Believe Me You

Believe Me You

Fearing the onset of serious brain rot, the other night I decided to switch up my usual entertainment choices.  Rather than watch such intellectually irredeemable fare as Adam Sandler’s new cinematic gem, Hubie Halloween, I instead watched a couple TED talks.  A talk...
A Brief Pause in My Coronavirus Venting

A Brief Pause in My Coronavirus Venting

Civil rights icon John Lewis died a couple weeks ago and America mourns.  You hear the words he uttered over the course of a remarkable life and wonder if this guy was human.  Indeed, a CNN commentator likened him to a saint.  Here’s a guy who had his head beaten in...
Dithering in the Big Apple

Dithering in the Big Apple

Zip code 11355 sits deep inside Queens in the Flushing section.  It borders Corona, which is one of the zip codes worst hit by coronavirus.  93% of the citizens of 11355 are minority and its median household income is significantly below the borough’s average.  In...
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