Monthly Archives: August 2021

I have a friend on Facebook who has been promoting Ivermectin for months. She is not, in  my experience, a right winger, a Trump supporter, or a crazy person. Maybe a fan of alternative medicine, but that’s about it. Maybe … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading some articles lately about how one might be able to persuade vaccine-skeptics and anti-maskers that it really would be better it they were to change their positions to come into tune with public health guidelines. Screw that, … Continue reading →

Now that the Afghani government has collapsed like a house of cards, and the Taliban are firmly in control, I hear various “experts” being interviewed on the radio or on television about what happened. All these experts should just sit … Continue reading →

Is it a total bummer that the Taliban are soon going to take over most, if not all of Afghanistan? Sure it is. But here’s the thing: it’s their country. The Taliban are Afghanis. It’s their own civil war. I … Continue reading →

I’ve been pretty clear that I thought it was a mistake to hold the Olympics now in the midst of a resurging Pandemic, but hold them they did. NBC didn’t quite get what it wanted, as the ratings are apparently … Continue reading →