Take Five: Muddling Through the Crisis
Sane Americans are getting on with their lives. This means living with the knowledge of death.
Author: Thomas Fleming
The Literature of Plagues, I: The Plagues of Egypt
This is a story that requires no retelling. Anyone who is not very familiar with the account in Exodus (basically chapters 5-12) will at least have seen the Cecil B. De Mille movie.
Corona Corona 5
More good news: You’re probably not living in New Orleans and do not have to face the reality of its mayor, LaToya Cantrell, who is predictably blaming the Federal Government and President Trump for her costly decision not to cancel Mardi Gras.
The Literature of Plagues: An Upcoming Discussion
Since there is no sign of this plague letting up—I am referring to the plague of hysteria that has descended upon the world—we may as well make the most of it by considering what we can learn by reading great literary accounts of previous plagues.
More March Birthdays
Torquato Tasso, and James Taylor, and Shemp Howard, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Hart Benton, and Roger Taney, Albert Einstein, Jerry Lewis, and Neil Sedaka, George Berkeley and Wyatt Earp, Fustel de Coulanges and Ovid ….
Corona, Corona 4
A close relative, in a comment “by the way,” hoped I was taking COVID seriously, since the problem was becoming acute in her part of California. It was a reasonable remark, and I responded: I take all potentially fatal diseases seriously, but the media are as usual lying to the public almost as badly as the Chinese government has been lying. Looking at at the Italian situation—far more drastic than here in the States—99% of the people dying have been old—average age 79 years nine months—and with underlying conditions, cardiac, respiratory, diabetic. Telling athletic young people to fear death is...
Corona , Corona 3: A Song in Time of Plague
Don’t blame it on the Chicoms,
You’re a racist if you do.
You’re a wingnut ignoramus
If you ever mention flu.
Corona, Corona Updated by Readers
With apologies to Bo Carter, Big Joe Turner, and Roger McGrath. This is the first few verses, but with ill-advised encouragement it could go on and on….
My first few crude verses.
Corona, Corona
Stray thoughts and whimsies, paradoxes and parodies in time of Plague. Send in comments and I’ll repost original contributions as part of next text.
Heroes and Villians: Julius Caesar, Part Two
In which one of history’s greatest men is viewed from the perspective of his enemies.
