By Michelle Shaw It’s Earth Day, and we are in the midst of a global pandemic. Nothing will make you contemplate the Earth’s health as quickly as watching her spring back to life as 180,000 of your global citizens have lost their battle to simply breathe and fall victim to the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s almost … Read more
Update to Trump and his associates stand to profit from an unproven treatment he promotes for COVID-19. So it turns out that “Dr. Trump’s miracle cure” really is snake oil that is toxic to patients, and likely killed some patients before the Covid-19 did. The Associated Press reports, More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug … Read more
Democrats, Independents, sane Republicans better start pushing for legislation to aid the states and rebuild the American Economy and infrastructure NOW because Political Prince of Darkness-Enemy of the People-Obstructionist in Chief-Legislative Grim Reaper-Moscow Mitch McConnell and his anti Government allies are already laying the sound-bite groundwork for putting the brakes on government. In a phone … Read more
Peter Kafka in an interview with journalism critic Jay Rosen recently wrote at Vox, Trump’s denial of his coronavirus failings will be “one of the biggest propaganda battles in American history”: Americans don’t trust the government, and they don’t trust the media. That trend has been evident for years, but the Trump era has accelerated it. Now … Read more
I recently wrote an opinion piece in which I speculated that the GOP really didn’t want people to return to work and die, they were just positioning themselves politically to insulate themselves from the inevitable CoronaDepression. I assumed they would make a lot of noise about the damage to the economy, and then prudently, and … Read more