Today Congress passed the stimulus bill today, probably with no Republican votes. There will be talk about numbers too large for us to comprehend: $1.9 Trillion; national debt of $29 Trillion, on and on. I keep thinking of perspective, on several grounds. (There are numerous sources of data. My choices, below, are not ‘cherry-picked’ by […]
Time very well spent: the film “On Her Shoulders”, about Nadia Murad. See “Related and timely”, below. * Yesterday, March 8, was International Women’s Day. March is Women’s History Month. This year has celebrated the centennial of Women’s Suffrage in the United States. There’s been much progress; still a very long ways to go…. We […]
An early and continuing part of my daily drive during the Covid-19 year was through portions of nearby suburbs Newport, St. Paul Park and Cottage Grove, and Grey Cloud Island, all of which are along and part of, the Mississippi River environs. In St. Paul Park is an oil refinery, a long-time fixture there that I […]
POSTNOTE: from the Sunday, March 7 2021, Washington Post: well worth your time. Excerpt from Chaos Under Heaven. * March 6, 2020 – it was a Friday – I stopped at my daughter Lauri’s home to tell her about an upcoming program of the Minnesota Orchestra I thought would interest the grandkids. The previous day […]
For the first 140+ years of the United States the inauguration of the President of the United States was March 4. In 1933, the date was changed to January 20. I really had no knowledge of this until the current chaos. It’s just another learning opportunity. If you wish to learn more, here’s an article […]
Today is the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about January 6. Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, is testifying. It is interesting. Only the most hardy will watch it all (I’m not among that group, but I’ll catch quite a bit of it.) The opening statements of Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Chuck Grassley were of […]
Sometime today the Former Occupant is supposed to make an appearance at a conservatives conference in Orlando. I’m writing and publishing this before the appearance, and while I’ll probably watch whatever pieces are accessible, I won’t have any comments. We all know what is ahead, there. A worthwhile read came overnight via Just Above Sunset. […]
As I write, the Senate Parliamentarian has not yet issued her ruling on the $15 minimum wage provision proposal to be voted on this week. If you’re reading this, you know the rest of the public details from your source of news. I simply want to add a personal opinion about this long-standing issue. I […]
This afternoon was a time of remembrance in memory of the over 500,000 deaths from Covid-19 since the pandemic began last year. The bells at the National Cathedral rang 500 times; there were 500 candles at the White House. Other reports were that the first official death from the pandemic in the U.S. was last […]
A couple of unrelated happenings this week lead to this column. This week, a relative, Donna, sent an old photograph with an inquiry: did I know one of the people in the photo? As is quite typical with old photos, this one didn’t have a date or names written on the back. I could help: […]