Two Milestones: 100,000 dead, 40 million unemployed

On Wednesday, the United States reached the milestone of 100,000 confirmed dead from the coronavirus pandemic. Vice President Joe Biden delivered a video eulogy for the dead. President Donald Trump spent the day slandering former congressman and now MSNBC host Joe Scarborough with a false accusation of murder, and threatening social media, his precious Twitter, … Read more

‘Liability protection’ does not make legal or economic sense

Michael Bryan has addressed in earlier posts the misguided emphasis by the Chamber of Commerce and their Republican allies to give businesses what will essentially result in immunity from legal liability for their actions, or inaction, in protecting their employees or their customers from the spread of the coronavirus. Just the opposite emphasis should apply. … Read more

Reopened too soon: the ‘COVID Summer’ has begun

Above Photo: Visitors crowd the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, at the start of the Memorial Day weekend on May 23, 2020. The headline in the Arizona Republic today is Arizona saw highest single-day ER visits; Yuma sees spike in cases related to COVID-19 over weekend: The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at Yuma Regional … Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch fact checks ‘a lie of colossal Trumpian proportions’

Donald Trump has been perpetuating a tale, like Old Mother Hubbard “the cupboard was bare” when he became president, and despite having three years to restock the cupboard (which was not bare, as we learn), “it’s all Obama’s fault” that he was so unprepared to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Because “I don’t take responsibility at all,” … Read more

The madness of King Donald mars the solemnity of Memorial Day

H/T Above Graphic: Buzzflash.com. I don’t know about you, but on Memorial Day weekends I visit my father and my uncle who are buried in the veterans cemetery here to make sure their graves are properly cared for and marked with an American flag. They proudly served their country to fight a war to rid the … Read more