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I’m an old guy. When I read about the cruise ships presently floating in the ocean waters with no ports to land in I think of the old Kingston Trio song “My Father was the Keeper of the Eddystone Light”  and the words “Yo, Ho, Ho the wind blows free, Oh for the life of…

The social media is filled with disbelief and horror at the statement Joe Biden made to Sarah Haines on the program the View. He was asked: “Are you at all concerned, as President Trump said, we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself?” The background of Trump’s statement is that he wants…

A friend wrote suggesting blaming does no good saying we have to get beyond that and cooperate. I agree we have to cooperate as well as we can. But cooperation can only be achieved when the willingness and ability of the others is known. You cannot cooperate without a goal in sight. You ask, “why…

The failure of leadership coming out of Washington, DC, the ups and downs of Trump, the muzzling of the health care professionals, the lack of wisdom that prevents a uniform national response, the idea the federal government must let the states decide how to handled the cases by themselves, the massive lack of testing, and…

The poem Opportunity starts off as best I remember with the words: “This I beheld or dreamed it in a dream.” I want to start off with the same words, there waged a great battle on the front lines far in front of me which I knew about from the reports I received at general…

On March 24, 2020, there were 49,126  cases of Covid-19 in US. Tonight at 10:00 pm there are 142,106. Almost tripling in five days. On March 24, 2020, there were 674 deaths associated with Covid-19 in U.S. Tonight at 10:00 pm there are 2,479. Almost quadrupling in five days. If the rate of Covid-19 deaths…