December, 2020 archive
The Reopening 0
Afterthought:
I find it bittersweet to contemplate all the news stories about schools that have reopened only to find themselves infected yet again
Science is real. Pretending it isn’t doesn’t make it less real.
“Don’t Normalize This” 0
David comments on Donald Trump’s continued efforts to subvert the election, and, along with it, democracy.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Many years ago, when he was working in Vermont, my brother told me that his boss had stopped hunting.
Seems he–the boss–had been relaxing in a bar after a day in the field and overheard two visitors from another state talking about their day stalking deer. One of them said, “I didn’t see a thing all day,” The other replied, “Neither did I, but I got off a couple of sound shots.”
And that’s when boss hung up his gun.
Courting Disasters 0
In denying Pennsylvania Republicans’ efforts to retroactively exclude mail-in (aka, “absentee”) ballots from the tally of the recent election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court went so far as to use the word “farcical” in their ruling.
