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 ….
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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.
Panic Pandemic
Governments cannot save us from being ill. Governments cannot save us from dying. What they could do is engage people in helping rather than locking them down in their homes.
Some March Birthdays
Botticelli and Michelangelo, Amerigo Vespucci, Sam Houston and Bob Wills, Marcus Aurelius and Kenneth Grahame, Bud Abbott and Rob Roy, Gregory La Cava, Micky Dolenz and Yuri Gagarin….
Some Junk I Posted on FB Today…
I used to have a Greek friend from Alexandria. Alex was a businessman who became a professor of business. He used to say you couldn’t argue with communists, because after you had refuted every argument of theirs from A to Z, they’d say, “What about A?” as if it had never been discussed. It is the problem with all ideologies, and I do mean all, including especially anti-communism.
The Economic Consequences of the Coronavirus
I generally have been supportive of President Trump’s economic policies. His tax cuts and regulation reductions have been crucial in sustaining prosperity. But he has made a couple of mistakes I have been meaning to write about. With the virus infecting the world, now is a good time.
