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.
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.
Ah, twas Super Tuesday in Alabama, and since it has been raining for what seems like forty days and forty nights here, we swam to the polls.
The Atlantic has an article wondering why old men run America, and why, in particular, a geezer who cannot tell his wife from his sister is the likely Democratic candidate.
In this brief episode, Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss the Super Tuesday results.
I can’t speak for anyone else, of course, but I can barely sleep at night worrying about the Corona virus that has already infected nearly 70 (out of 300+ millions) Americans, and the incredible death rate world wide of somewhere between 1 to 3% of cases. As one of the elderly, I am supposed to be at several times higher the level of risk, if I come down with this flu-like disease. Trump-loving skeptics point to the tens of thousands of annual fatal cases of influenza, but what do they know? They’re not scientists like Nancy Pelosi and Anderson Cooper....
In this occasional series, Dr. Fleming and Stephen will discuss the state of the 2020 US Election.
Neighbors, even in these postmodern times, have their uses. Who but the nosey neighbors will call the police if they observe strangers trying to enter your home when you are away? Who but a neighbor is at hand to lend you the ax or cup of sugar you need?
According to librarians, reading is a good thing, and it hardly matters what you read. On that principle, bad books are shoved off on unsuspecting children with goodness knows what deleterious effects. I half expect to see, before I depart, comic versions of Sade’s Justine and Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly. In general most of us read many too many books. I don’t mean simply that we read junk–I have read thousands of mystery novels, without a single blush. I mean we read too many books about books rather than books that are themselves a kind of reality.
