Category: news
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what I learned from the polio crisis
I think it was 1955 when I obediently lined up my seven-year-old self to get my polio medicine, delivered, I think, as a few drops of the good stuff soaked into a sugar cube. Clever folks, those public health pros.
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a post-truth world?
Chuck Todd on Meet the Press recently referred to the 2016 Presidential campaign as happening in the “post-truth world.” Add this to the post-church world and the post-modern world, and what you have is a whole new world. Get on board, or not. The very idea of a post-truth world sets my…
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let’s review the history
Just about every day, I hear something on the news or Facebook, or in conversation that leads me to think, Wait a minute. Don’t you remember that….” whatever. And being a history enthusiast, even with all the faults and biases of historians (like Thucydides), I always like to replay in my mind…
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Jeff Bezos Does His Part
Reading: Jeff Bezos: A Brief Anthology – NYTimes.com. Let’s face it. Whether you think the Kindle and e-books are a gift from God or the Devil, I hope we can all agree that Jeff Bezos is one great business guy. The same guy who took the broken world of book publishing…
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issues, not idiots
If I’m going to spend a perfectly good couple of hours watching a “presidential primary debate,” I want a debate…on actual issues. About the only thing I agree with Newt about is that the opening question for this week’s debate in South Carolina was inappropriate. The moderator apparently forgot where…
Guy Cicero 