William Murchison
“So the city was filled with the confusion … Now some cried one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.” — The Acts of the Apostles,…
Wouldn’t it be fun if people weren’t actually dying or losing their livelihoods due to a virus no one had heard of until a few months ago? We could prop our feet on the porch railing and howl at or…
You can tell we’re getting restless — twitching and twisting and otherwise maneuvering ourselves into the familiar postures that characterized life, say, last January. We’re homesick: sick of being at home and making allowances for spouses, children, boarders, TV personalities….
Politics being politics, and politicians being politicians, Americans have figured out how, along with sore throats and violent coughing, the coronavirus causes finger-pointing, loud talking, and endless credit-claiming. The best remedy I know of: huge handfuls of salt for sprinkling…
We seem to be in what Bernie’s and Joe’s and my generation called a “mell of a hess,” back before the media and the political class routinized the words that were formerly common to override with “#%$#%^!!%$%.” Which made for…
This virus thing has gotten crazy. San Francisco … closed down due to the coronavirus’ spread?! A whole American city on hold? And other localities set for like privations? Joe Biden’s and Bernie Sanders’ contemporaries may remember (as I do,…
The stock market Monday took a look at the world around it and swooned, delivering likely the decisive blow to the Sanders candidacy and its proposed revolution. Who wants a political revolution when economic forces are hard at work wringing…
There is occasionally good sense in just standing back and watching the grand spectacle known as democracy. The presidential try-outs, known as the primaries, have been a strong prop of that reasoning. People who want, or say they want, to…
“President Sanders, speaking from the White House yesterday, proposed/criticized/blamed … ” Um, er, no — not really. It’s not going to happen. This Bernie thing — the rise of Bernie, the magnetism of Bernie, the radiance that shines from his…
