Atlanta, GA September 29, 2021 Recent missives have drawn more replies. The question below is similar to several, and is a good one, so I’ll reproduce and answer it here. Question: JD, You have said that indoor mask mandates and vaccine mandates by businesses are assaults on your freedoms. Let’s say that you are Health […]
Atlanta, GA September 22, 2021 Today is the autumnal equinox, and much hangs in the balance. Doug Casey once defined stupidity as an unwitting tendency toward self-destruction. Over the last couple months, as light dwindled and days shortened, we’ve witnessed (and occasionally epitomized) what he meant. The relatively educated among us who reflexively parrot the […]
Atlanta, GA September 12, 2021 “I understand your anger at those who haven’t gotten vaccinated.” – Joe Biden, President of all the Americans Well, I guess it wasn’t “just a mask” after all. The other day, after a year and a half of turning the dial, the Covid Regime made the water a lot warmer. […]
Atlanta, GA September 3, 2021 My recent missives raising questions and advocating personal choice regarding masks, vaccines, and quarantine would have been innocuous boilerplate a couple years ago. Now, they draw more mail than anything I ever wrote. A few were complimentary. But several told me to stop writing, so I removed them from the […]
Dublin, OH August 31, 2021 Every era puts invisible shackles on those who live thru it, and I can only dance in my chains. – Liu Cixin Ireland is the richest country in the world, because its capital is always “Dublin”! – Unknown In the Catholic Church, it takes several centuries for a doctrine to […]
Atlanta, GA August 21, 2021 Last week, like a bayonet in a minefield, my pen poked into dangerous ground. As you can imagine, the explosions came fast. Some still do. For the most part they’ve been proportionate, well-targeted, and the expected blowback of a fool-hardy foray. But none were deadly. The last thing I want is […]
Atlanta, GA August 15, 2021 Anyone with eyes to see or ears to hear has sensed for a while that the world is going to Hell. In recent years, the handcart has picked up speed. Many drivers have hands on the wheel, and feet on the accelerator. Regardless whose at the controls, it seems to […]
Atlanta, GA August 11, 2021 “I’m sorry. I know people must like to have their individual freedom. But I think that we’re in such a serious situation now, that under certain circumstances, mandates should be done”. – Dr. Anthony Fauci, yesterday on MSNBC It’s been said that people go insane in groups, but come back […]
Atlanta, GA August 1, 2021 A few days ago, we examined the faulty reasoning and high-pressure tactics of those demanding more Covid mitigation measures and universal “vaccination”. Today we reverse the lens, flip the script, and explore the thought-processes that might make someone reluctant to inject our latest medical miracles into his upper arm. The […]
(Photo credit: Brett Breen) Atlanta, GA July 29, 2021 One of the blessings of vacation is that we can avoid the news. We close our ears, avert our eyes, and open our minds. Among the detriments of going away is that we eventually come back. That’s what we did last week. Big mistake. Hard as […]