It’s interesting that arguably the two most inept responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are countries led by birds of a feather. Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s prime minister, shares many of President Donald Trump’s traits: principle-free conservatism, über-nationalism, isolationism, clownish… Continue Reading
Yesterday Matt Peebles posted a well-reasoned and thought-provoking essay on the topic of population density as it relates to the COVID-19 crisis. He invited us to draw our own conclusions regarding the question of local control over mitigation measures.… Continue Reading
I arose this weekend morning thinking I would be going to “wake-up” tennis clinic, held at 8:30 A.M. every Saturday at Sun Oaks. I’m well aware of the calls for social distancing to minimize the risk of infection by COVID-19,… Continue Reading
I’m a guy who can sit at his keyboard and crank out a column for ANewsCafe.com in about 30 minutes when I’ve got an itch to scratch. Finding enough words to fill a couple of pages isn’t a problem. My… Continue Reading
I need a break from the news, and I’m hoping you need one, too. I’m Carr-fire exhausted. And I’m exhausted by politics—embarrassed for our country regarding the latest Trump news: the bruhaha with his fellow reality TV character, Omarosa. I… Continue Reading
There has been a raft of recent articles on ANewsCafe regarding Bethel Church and the way the leaders of the church view homosexuality, as most of you readers well know. In a nutshell: Homosexuality is a sin, but Jesus can… Continue Reading
In a comment below his latest opinion piece, my anewscafe.com colleague R.V. Sheide declared last night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump a tie. The focus groups and early polls show Clinton to be the clear winner, whereas most of those “What… Continue Reading
I’ve seen numerous comments on social media addressing the selective outrage and grief of those who have expressed feelings about the terrorist attacks in Paris. Some of those posts point out that it’s not just Parisians suffering from terrorism, or… Continue Reading
My newish iPhone 6 was nowhere to be found Monday morning, so I fired up the “Find my iPhone” app on my iPad. The phone was located about three-fourths of a mile from our house in Sunset Terrace at the… Continue Reading
I recently read a Facebook exchange between two young gentlemen—members of a Sacramento-area band on the rise—regarding a satiric song by one of one of my favorite poet-jesters of the Americana/Texas Outlaw music genre, Hayes Carll. The song is delivered… Continue Reading
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