Last month, just a few days before announcing at a press conference airing statewide that Thanksgiving celebrations involving participants from multiple households would contribute to a deadly spread of COVID-19, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards was photographed cavorting, sans mask…
Saturday Welcome to National Socialist Workers’ Party Los Angeles. I was awakened by a call from my beautiful Eastern European real estate woman: “Have you heard? The city of Los Angeles has banned walking outside. Not just at stores but…
After months of forced quarantine, how are millions of U.S. citizens transitioning back into public life? One would imagine a gentle, controlled re-entry would be logical. After all, we have been told for months that social distancing is a matter…
I was reading the New Yorker the other day — as one does when stuck at home — and noticed something new: In certain circumstances, it’s no longer socially unacceptable to gather in large groups. The author, Jelani Cobb, was…
First of all, a confession. I’m not suffering all that much under the Lockdown, or Quarantine, or whatever I’m supposed to call it. I work from home as a translator and writer, so my income, though irregular, is largely unaffected….
I In the early days of the Wuhan plague, the Berlin daily newspaper Tagesspiegel warned its readers that the new contagion “spreads out invisibly. It spreads along the streets and train tracks, over the counters and tables, the packaging and surfaces. And…
Good news for fans of good manners. The coronavirus has given you the perfect excuse to get rid of the idiots that stick their noses in your face when talking to you. Now you can slap them one. No one’s…
Washington There is a growing revolt against the imposition of police-state government on the Land of the Free. In Michigan, the cry for freedom has been heard as automobiles and pickup trucks flying the Stars and Stripes circle the state…
This dreadful virus has been a jarring reminder of humans constantly having to play catch-up to those occasions when nature visits us with its unpredictable damaging and sometimes lethal permutations. (This is not to rule out the possible creation of…