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    • Mixed Emotions on Mother’s Day

      Mixed Emotions on Mother’s Day0

      We’re fast approaching Mother’s Day. Go to floral shops, candy emporiums, or grocery stores, and we find beaucoup gifts we can buy for Mom. Throw in other special gifts and treating Mom for brunch, and we will produce one of the more lucrative retail seasons of 2021, with over $28 billion dollars projected spending on Mother’s Day.

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    • Thanks, But No Thanks: Why I Haven’t Gotten the Vaccine

      Thanks, But No Thanks: Why I Haven’t Gotten the Vaccine0

      In a recent conversation with an internist, the good doctor asked me whether I’d gotten a COVID-19 vaccine. When I told him ‘No,” he then asked if I intended to get it at all. “Not unless someone forces it on me,” I said. I then asked him the same question. “I got the first injection,

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    • Bill and Melinda’s Failed Marriage Doesn’t Spell Doom for the Rest of Us

      Bill and Melinda’s Failed Marriage Doesn’t Spell Doom for the Rest of Us1

      In case you haven’t heard, billionaire power couple Bill and Melinda Gates are getting divorced. Mourning the end of the Gates’ marriage, The Washington Post proclaimed, “If Bill and Melinda Gates can’t make a marriage work, what hope is there for the rest of us?” Pshaw. If we leave our assessment of marriage to the

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    • Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem

      Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem1

      Crime is back in the news and hardly a day now passes without headlines about shootings at largely peaceful funerals and all the rest. The obvious question is whether this soaring criminality will render big cities like New York City unlivable—a return to when movie audiences cheered Charles Bronson in Death Wish. Today’s crime is deceptively

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    • Don’t Look to School to Improve Children’s Reading

      Don’t Look to School to Improve Children’s Reading0

      There’s always a silver lining, even in the dreadful lockdowns the world endured during COVID-19. One of these little glimmers of light surfaced recently in a Guardian article about children who, locked out of in-person classes, dove deeper into reading. Citing a Renaissance Learning report, the Guardian noted that “compared with the previous year, children

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    • Biden vs. Biden on ‘Is America a Racist Country?’

      Biden vs. Biden on ‘Is America a Racist Country?’0

      “Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country.” So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, in his televised rebuttal to Joe Biden’s address to Congress. Asked the next day what he thought of Scott’s statement, Biden said he agrees. “No, I don’t think the American people are racist.” Vice President Kamala Harris also

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