Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: What a Country!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!
–“America the Beautiful” (Katharine Lee Bates)
One year ago today, I developed respiratory symptoms that turned out to be Covid 19. My wife and I were sick for a week. Nothing terrible. Lucky, to say the least.
We’d just returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand. The cruise […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Are We Being Played?
How do you boil a frog without it jumping out of the pot? Put it in tepid water and turn up the heat gradually until the water reaches a boil and the frog is cooked.
— Rana Temporaria*
Let me begin by stating I take the pandemic seriously. It has killed over 500,000 Americans, and the havoc that it and the unintended negative consequences of our response to it have wreaked won’t […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Where Are We Now, and What Can We Do About It?
“Washington, D.C. is twelve square miles bordered by reality.”
–President Andrew Johnson
Well, the impeachment trial is mercifully over, and I suspect most of us are glad for that. I also suspect that most of you, as do I, have an opinion on Mr. Trump’s complicity, or lack thereof, in the events of January 6. I don’t want to debate that issue on these pages, but I do have a couple of […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Don’t We Deserve the Truth?
“You want answers? … I want the truth! … You can’t handle the truth.”
–from A Few Good Men
President Biden spent the lion’s share of the presidential campaign bunkered in his basement and castigating Mr. Trump for his management of the Covid pandemic. Give him credit: it worked.
When he won the election, I was at least hopeful that a moderate president with a less inflammatory personality would […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What a Country!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!
–“America the Beautiful” (Katharine Lee Bates)
One year ago today, I developed respiratory symptoms that turned out to be Covid 19. My wife and I were sick for a week. Nothing terrible. Lucky, to say the least.
We’d just returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand. The cruise […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Are We Being Played?
How do you boil a frog without it jumping out of the pot? Put it in tepid water and turn up the heat gradually until the water reaches a boil and the frog is cooked.
— Rana Temporaria*
Let me begin by stating I take the pandemic seriously. It has killed over 500,000 Americans, and the havoc that it and the unintended negative consequences of our response to it have wreaked won’t […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Where Are We Now, and What Can We Do About It?
“Washington, D.C. is twelve square miles bordered by reality.”
–President Andrew Johnson
Well, the impeachment trial is mercifully over, and I suspect most of us are glad for that. I also suspect that most of you, as do I, have an opinion on Mr. Trump’s complicity, or lack thereof, in the events of January 6. I don’t want to debate that issue on these pages, but I do have a couple of […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Don’t We Deserve the Truth?
“You want answers? … I want the truth! … You can’t handle the truth.”
–from A Few Good Men
President Biden spent the lion’s share of the presidential campaign bunkered in his basement and castigating Mr. Trump for his management of the Covid pandemic. Give him credit: it worked.
When he won the election, I was at least hopeful that a moderate president with a less inflammatory personality would […]