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Vaccine Miseries
It all seemed so very hopeful when the cable channels were breathlessly reporting on the initial shipments of the Pfizer vaccine in the middle of December. Remember the reports of the big UPS and FedEx trucks ...
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They Lost My COVID Test
Almost two weeks ago, I thought that I might have been exposed to someone with the COVID infection. I waited for a week and then my wife, Laurene, and I went to a nearby testing site—consisting ...
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2020 Election–Impressions and Reflections
America appears to be divided into three more or less equal parts, at least when it comes to the election results. Thus far, just under 78 million people voted for Biden; about 73 million voted for ...
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What Does Religion Have to Do with It?
My question is prompted by the nomination and likely approval of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court and the reactions to that. She is, without question, a conservative. Some ascribe that conservatism to her deeply ...
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Rehearsals (Clowns Included)
A couple of weeks ago, an author named Jack Luna explored the significance of the Trump-supporting car/truck and boat parades on Labor Day: “With images of raucous white Americans on parade freshly troubling me, I kept ...
“Everyone Agrees”
When a politician, TV anchor or newspaper opinion writer starts out by saying that “Everyone agrees”, I think it’s time to pay attention. There are not too many instances where everybody agrees—except about something that’s really ...
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But what’s the moral of the story?
On Friday, July 10th, it rained hard all day in Brooklyn. Come mid-afternoon, we decided we needed some stuff from the nearby supermarket. Because it was pouring, I took our car. As I left the house, ...
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Police Rebellion, Then and Now
Jarrod: A recent New York Times headline sums it up well: “Facing Protests Over Use of Force, Police Respond With More Force.” Even as America’s cult of cop worship implodes before our eyes, it is clear ...
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When the PBA Defends Bad Cops
I wrote the following letter to the editor of The Irish Echo in 2000. Patrick Lynch, the current President of the NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA), had just been elected to his first term. Suffice it ...
Bill de Blasio: The Most Decrepit Mayor in America
In the wake of days of intense protests against the murder of George Floyd on the streets of New York City, Bill de Blasio, a failed presidential candidate and now infamous bungler of the city’s response ...
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