Lockdown Thoughts
In this quick chat, Dr. Fleming and Stephen share their thoughts on the first week of quarantine in their respective locations.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Ten Good Things to Come from the Virus Crisis
When Prohibition was imposed in America in the 1920s, G.K. Chesterton, himself a famous bibber, quipped it was a good thing because it would bring families together to make beer and wine at home. My late father, born in 1917, remembered helping his father make wine in their basement in Detroit. I don’t want to downplay whatever is overtaking America, medically and economically, from the coronavirus. I recently got a takeout burger at a restaurant in Costa Mesa. The manager said the day before he had to personally call 60 employees to “terminate” them, an unfortunate but necessary technical term...
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.
Homer: Episode 2
In this episode, Dr. Fleming gives a brief history of Greece to give more context for the opening of the Iliad, pre-Mycenean and Mycenean periods, the dark age, and beyond.
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.
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.
Take Five: Lessons Too Late in Learning
A podcast in which we begin to ask what lessons are to be learned from the Panic Virus
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….
