2023 fourteenth entry

Fourteenth Entry click to enlarge Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 The virus is spreading to more vulnerable places than NYC, and suddenly everyone is expecting and demanding government action. What happened to the great hatred and distrust of the government? New York’s...

2023 thirteenth entry

Thirteenth Entry Monday, March 30th, 2020 The BBC reported that things have changed “utterly” — another term I’ve never heard a news anchor use. The Netherlands and other European countries reported they received defective masks from China. France ordered one billion...

2023 twelfth entry

Twelfth Entry Sunday, March 29th, 2020 A lone New York Times perched on a ledge in what could generously be called the lobby of my building. An oversized photograph of the interior of Calatrava’s Oculus was “above the fold,” as people used to say. Apparently, I am not...

2023 eleventh entry

Eleventh Entry Saturday, March 28th, 2020 This morning a radio voice said, “Our president’s flimflammery is colliding with empirical reality” a term and concept I am not used to hearing on the morning news. President Trump complained that President Obama had “left the...

2023 tenth entry

Tenth Entry Friday, March 27th, 2020 “Uniquely ill-equipped” – a term I heard on the radio this morning in reference to Black communities around the country. The NAACP explained that this condition is due to fundamental inequalities in our culture. The $2 trillion aid...

2023 ninth entry

Ninth Entry Thursday, March 26th, 2020 More than 1,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the US.3.3 million people filed for unemployment last week.Crime in LA is down 6% — is that because gun shops are open Abortions, including by pill, have been banned in Texas....