Last August the New Albany, Ohio school board refused to impose a mask mandate. Given that my kids go to New Albany schools this, quite understandably, bugged me. I usually don’t attend school board meetings but upon reviewing the video of the most recent one, it became pretty clear that school board member Philip Derrow […]
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Philip Derrow styles himself a man of reason and intellect. In reality, he’s spreading the worst kind of COVID misinformation and trafficking in the most offense of tropes.
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One can make the abject denial of the need for health and safety protocols a plank in one’s political platform, but viruses do not care about such things.
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Irony defined: Bob Woodward’s final major act on the public stage could very well be one in which he argues that, when it came to tapes incriminating the President of the United States, it was the right thing to conceal them rather than to release them.
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A must-read piece in The Atlantic thoroughly and comprehensively explains all of the ways in which America has failed.
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Between February 10, 2020 and May 27, 2020, I kept a daily diary chronicling my thoughts, impressions, fears, anxieties, and outrages in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. It ended up being over 120,000 words worth of personal therapy for me but I stopped updating it once doing so ceased to be therapeutic and, instead, began […]
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Will there ever be a thorough cataloging of our nation’s failure? Also, Great Moments in Baseball Compartmentalization and massive anxiety about school.
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I’m only updating the Diary if events warrant it. An event has warranted it.
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The Pandemic Diary has run its course. Thank you for being with me as it ran its course.
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Baseball, lemonade, and a politicized Justice Department: American traditions that always endure
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