As dawn breaks in the U.S. on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, you need to be very vigilant. If your neighbor still has a VOTE TRUMP 2020 sign in their yard or a VOTE TRUMP 2020 banner hanging from their house, you should steer clear. If you see someone with a bumper sticker that says VOTE …
It’s 4:45 AM, June 10, 2020. I’ve just finished my 20-minute treadmill walk; a daily tradition. I’m now sitting out on my patio enjoying what in Arizona is a cool morning: 70 degrees. There is an intermittent breeze. I sip my dark Starbucks pour-over, starting to feel it’s delivery of that mild euphoria that I …
I have a theory that we never forget anything. It is a theory that cannot be proved, or disproved, so let’s continue. What about memories from your early, very early childhood? Why can’t we remember them? When we recall a memory, how do we recall it? We see it as a narrative; a short story. …
Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin seemed to preen for the camera, putting his hands in his pockets, as he deliberately murdered George Floyd by jamming his knee into Floyd’s throat. That was on May 25, 2020. Since that time Derek is no longer on the police force and has been charged with second-degree murder. Since …
George Washington, in his Farewell Address pointed to the dangers of building a government around political parties. The bottom line in his thinking was that parties would over time morph into tribes, with the ethnocentrism that accompanies the cultural isolation that is bred by such associations. Except for a few blips, since Washington’s time, there …
No matter what store I go into there is a percentage of the patrons that are not wearing face masks. I find myself thinking, “What do these people know about Covid-19 that I don’t know?” This, of course, is a rhetorical question because the answer is that the maskless public doesn’t know anything about Covid-19. …
If you are still trying to decide whether it is necessary to wear a face mask when out in public, or if you don’t presently wear a face mask, then this article should help you decide. If you feel that you are very healthy and that your past bouts with the flu have been very …
I went to a local department store the other day. I was amazed that over half of the patrons were maskless, many of which were children. I asked myself, “What do they know that I don’t?” Since early March, when it was becoming obvious that we had a problem with a virus, I started reading …
One of the biggest mistakes that was made by the medical community as the COVID-19 pandemic began to take form was the comparison of COVID-19 to the flu. Until the hospital and death numbers started to rise there were many commentators that kept referring to COVID-19 as “a nasty flu.” What are the similarities and …
Since my childhood, I had been interested in electronics. I had an uncle who owned a television repair business. Through his, and my father’s encouragement I dabbled in electronics through the use of vacuum tube projects, with little success but with a lot of excitement and consequential learning. Just the mention of vacuum tubes should …