Hopeful: NYC Covid cases have peaked, our Omicron wave is beginning to subside
I wrote a hopeful comment yesterday that I’d like to put up as a diary. The coming 1-2 months will be a nightmare for America’s healthcare system. Ed Yong of the Atlantic lays the case out in stark...
View ArticleMaking Our Kids Wear Masks: Where is the Off-Ramp?
Yesterday, we registered our pre-Kindergartener for the Summer 2022 season of outdoor day camp. There are dozens and dozens of such programs here in Brooklyn. We considered proximity, program content,...
View ArticleAnne Applebaum: UKRAINE MUST WIN.
Anne Applebaum’s writing for The Atlantic has been superb these recent months, and her piece today really brings the Ukraine tragedy into a moral and strategic imperative: a victory for Ukraine is “the...
View ArticleNYC Covid: It's rampant, it's underreported, and it's eliciting...
Hi friends, thought I’d write an update from Brooklyn, and from the Northeast Tri-State area (“Tri-State” is loosely defined as the NY-NJ-CT region in which people live somewhat near NYC and can get to...
View ArticleSuperb bio piece in The Atlantic: "Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?"
I just finished reading one of the best longer-form bio/political magazine pieces I’ve read in recent years. Elaina Plott Calabro, well done. “Marge” (her nickname among those who knew her back when)...
View ArticleOn being "too old for this": June 13, Trump faces Miami Federal Court. June...
As a middle aged Gen-Xer, I thought it was surreal in Spring 2016, primary season, when the three major players for the US Presidency were so old. Hillary Clinton, then 68; Bernie Sanders, then 75; and...
View ArticleCNN: July 4, 2023 was Earth's hottest day ever (recorded).
Gotta say — CNN takes a lot of criticism in recent months, much of it deserved. Trump Town Hall of infamy, an increase in MAGA-appeasing both-sides-ism, etc. But you know what else? Their climate...
View ArticleTrump Trials Stove Burner #3 (Jan 6) Heats Up: He got a "You are a Target"...
New news from CNN and elsewhere:Former President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he’s been informed by special counsel Jack Smith that he is a target of the criminal investigation into...
View ArticleWell, well: now Trump reframes Big Lie / Stolen Election as just "my opinion"...
Writing for the Washington Post, Aaron Blake pointed out an interesting development in what Trump is trying to sell to the public as he faces his next indictment package, the one about the “perfect...
View ArticleHurricane Lee has blown up to CAT 4. Slight risk of East Coast landfall Sept...
Just a Thursday evening update on Hurricane Lee. It intensified FAST. From 80mph at dawn to 105mph at 11am to 130mph (Category 4) as of 5pm Eastern time. Lee may become a Category 5 overnight or...
View ArticlePAY UP! Appeals court rules Trump has to post the full $454,000,000.00 bond!
Appeals court judge Anil Singh did the justice system a solid today — ruling that, no, Trump, you can’t pull a “lemme just pay $100M because I’m so rich.” The bond amount is $454 Million and Trump has...
View ArticleMy 10 Favorite YouTube Comments on Sen. Katie Britt's Weird-A-F Kitchen Rebuttal
As we all know, President Joe Biden delivered a superb State of the Union speech last night. There was a GOP rebuttal. I didn’t watch it. Few did. But the buzz around it got me to check it out this...
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