I just found this article on Town Hall.  According to the NY Times, potentially 90 percent of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 have such insignificant amounts of the virus present in their bodies that such individuals do not need to isolate nor are they...

It is not a coincidence that the cities with the greatest homeless problems are also the cities that have incorporated the most restrictive building codes. Facebook and Twitter have become the preferred platform for those who prefer outrage, extremism and hostility to...

My grandson Jonah has this great ability to deadpan some pithy and often very humorous comments; and the other day he quipped, “When we go back to school how are we supposed to maintain a social distance during our active shooter drills?”  Great thinkers throughout...

If you want to see the clearest examples of “systemic racism” in America look no further than our inner city schools where black kids have been receiving a substandard education for years.  If you doubt that allow me to ask, would you send your child to an inner city...

All of us come across pithy or aphoristic sayings and notions about happiness and living a successful life, and I’m no different.  So with COVID our constant companion and with the expected pre-election rancor and divisiveness permeating society, I thought I might...

“Hitting the boat” is an expression from the Naval Air Training Command in Pensacola Florida that refers to the first time an aspiring Naval Aviator (a flight student) lands an airplane on an aircraft carrier.  On Monday I wrote about THE most momentous event to ever...

An anomaly is something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.  For example Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, the rapid appearance of aging in childhood, is an example of a medical anomaly.  So just for fun I thought I take a look at a few...

Seventy five years ago this Thursday the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima; three days later Nagasaki was similarly bombed and the morality and necessity of using these weapons has been debated ever since. For some, nothing...

If someone wants to rail against, belittle or castigate a politician (which is usually the president these days) that’s his or her First Amendment right.  A burst of rage in the form of a few stinging sentences; a couple of passionate paragraphs or a little sarcasm is...