Another episode of that nagging little voice telling me we’re on a slippery slope to a new witchhunt-Red Scare-age of conformity where the ones who stand out from the crowd will be forced to comply, and if they don’t, shunned, banished, persecuted and eventually slain to rid the world of …
From an RBN host and critical care ICU nurse who also works in ER: N-95 masks have a pore size of 300 nanometers, the coronavirus is between 50-200 nanometers The wild west desperado bandanas seen in public everywhere are 2000 times more porous than the N-95 masks The bandanas give …
Going out in public with or without a face diaper during government-imposed politically motivated lockdown can be a dangerous act. It feels like everyone out there is on prescription anti-anxiety and anti-depression medication, and the drugs are no longer effective. Everyone, whether compliant or not, is on high alert, on …
A lesson from this lockdown, and from all state-sponsored and -enforced restrictions on free interaction and commerce between individuals: these are opportunities for crooks, charlatans and hackers to make big inroads into the lives of ordinary people. With government, lockdowns are just another chance to expand its power and control …
Covid19 has disrupted everything in life. Perhaps the only area in which I’m fortunate is I didn’t lose my job like millions of other Americans who were forced out of work by the lockdowns. I’ve been working from home for 6 weeks (that policy has been extended 4 times, the …
May 2 ~ I guess I should consider myself fortunate: 6 years ago I left the gig economy and took a fulltime job with a Fortune 1000 company that has now become — via merger — a Fortune 500 company, doing what I’ve done for the last 35+ years: write …
A daily ritual in place for years now is fetching the latest deliveries from the US post office and taking them to a receptacle set up in the garage. As I sift through them, a good percentage — 95% or higher — go directly into the trash: sales pitches I …
The Eighties and Nineties saw a frenzy of prosecutions across the country of day care center operators accused of sexually abusing children in their care, the most infamous being the McMartin family of Manhattan Beach, California. In a 2003 book I just ran across in a thrift store, No Crueler …
