Any time I see someone struggling to assemble a mechanical gadget, I always ask, with not small pleasure, “Did you read the manual?” Because no one ever reads the manual. That includes me sometimes. Almost three months into the novel… Continue Reading
Mark Burnett, the producer of “The Apprentice,” claims that up to 300 hours of video were shot for each one-hour long episode of the hit reality TV show that rescued Donald Trump from obscurity and ultimately delivered him to the… Continue Reading
I don’t know about you, but I’m not dying to go back to work. It’s been 40 days and 40 nights since I stopped substitute teaching in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic and it’s still not clear if I’m… Continue Reading
The novel coronavirus pandemic in the United States will be remembered in part as an era of shortages. A shortage of ventilators to treat patients in severe respiratory distress. A lack of testing that permitted COVID-19 to spread unchecked across… Continue Reading
Here we go. The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States exceeded 2000 last Saturday, doubling in just two days as hot zones erupted across the country, from California to New York to New Orleans. This is what an… Continue Reading
As of this writing, the Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency reports it has tested just 62 people for novel coronavirus in Shasta County. Sixty-one tested negative and just one person tested positive, a travel-related case who has since… Continue Reading
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