Protected from harm and danger, that’s what if means to feel safe. Lots of Americans would love to feel “safe and secure.” They want to live in a nation where breathing and working are unlikely to lead to injury or death. They used to live in such a country. Fifty-five years ago a young lawyer […]
Florida’s Covid Winter
Twenty-seven thousand dead. That is the estimate of the Institute of Health Metrics at the University of Washington for the number of Floridians dead by Covid through the end of 2020. Their guess: by New Year’s twice as many Floridians will be dead of the virus than now. Has IHME been accurate? Pretty much. As […]
Ignorance as Strength
Ignorance is strength. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. George Orwell, publishing his novel “1984” in 1948, foretold the future because he was living it. He had witnessed Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany. In Stalin’s time, hundreds of thousands of dedicated loyalists gave their hearts, minds and toil to the state. These patriots then discovered […]