We are all grateful when the hurricane has passed and our home yet stands. When we look into the stillness that follows to see the detritus of leaves and branches, the blown over trash or umbrella that speaks to the long, riotous night. Relief floods in the awakening space of our good fortune. Then, bleeding... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 • “Define Rain”
March 28, 2020 Science was trying to avoid the racism mistake this time. When this novel corona virus was first identified, the naming was intentional: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus. The disease it produces is Corona Virus 2019 or COVID-19. This was intentional because science knows the history... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 • Racing to Racism; Running from Reality
MARCH 15, 2020 Countries do not produce the pandemics; global warming, population increase, and the global travel industry are what is causing the increasing number of pandemics. For this very obvious reason, the previous administration set up a permanent department in the White House to coordinate global pandemics. They knew that pandemics were going to... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 • The Fox’s Fail
March 11, 2020 Our federal government is getting its collective butts handed to them by authoritarian governments, European liberal democracies, and Asian democracies. China, Italy, South Korea and Singapore all test more people in one day than the USA has done, ever. “.” The USA has known COVID-19 was on its way for 3... Continue Reading →
What Happened to Republican Values?
It is a disgusting thing to forcibly separate children from their parents and in 2019, POTUS-45 separated more Christian kids from their families than any other person on earth. Repurposed from the previous administration, he turned temporary holding areas into cages. He separated families; concentrated humanity by age and gender. He intentionally failed providing basic... Continue Reading →
Why Pay for Immigrants?
February 2020 I grew up between Woods Hole and East Falmouth. For many years, after my parents split, we were poor. We bought gas with change from the ashtray, thrift shop cloths were handed down, the dump provided furniture, and the food we had was precious. I was also a green card holder - an... Continue Reading →
Consent to be Cruel
July 2019 We continue to experiment on groups of children, without their consent, without the consent of their parents, and in full view of the public. Incarcerated, the border war children will not get an impartial ethics committee or an oversight board to demand humane medical treatment. The architects of this experiment have sequestered the... Continue Reading →