While we struggle through the effects of this pandemic, and deal with the legions of nut-cases who support ludicrous conspiracies and outrageous attempts to overturn the election result, as well as a President who seems increasingly detached from reality and appears willing to engage in overt sedition and treason to avoid admitting his loss; we …
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Authoritarianism In America Is Not New
I’m a history minded fellow and sometimes I forget that others are not. I tend to study history more than most, but not as much as many others. And there is a sliding scale of interest that ranges across the vast depth of history. Even the most studious have blind spots where our knowledge is …
Covid-19 Is Our Pearl Harbor
As I start writing this piece it is the 79th anniversary of the Japanese attack on US naval and army forces at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the (then) US Territory of Hawaii.I won’t talk about the attack itself, nor the war as a whole. I identify the attack because it was this that brought a …