by Diane | Jul 27, 2020 | Politics
Nancy Pelosi now calls Covid 19, the virus that came to us from China, as the Trump Virus. Well she has the right name but wrong symptoms. The Trump virus has nothing to do with respiratory failure, or organ failure. Oh no. This virus attacks the brain cells of...
by Diane | Jul 19, 2020 | News, Politics
In the latter half of the 20th century there was a newsman from Buffalo, New York, Irv Weinstein, who ended his newscast with “It’s 11 o’clock, Do you know where your children are?” Perhaps we need to amend that to “Do you know where your children are most of...
by Diane | Jul 14, 2020 | Politics
Indigenous ways of knowing have been suppressed and marginalized throughout academic history and we are finally gaining momentum in elevating Indigenous knowledges as equally valid to Western science. We have been told over and over, ad nausea, about the...
by Diane | Jul 5, 2020 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality
Just before he was beheaded, Daniel Pearl said: “My mother is Jewish. My father is Jewish. I am a Jew.” I was out the other day and heard this most upsetting statement: You don’t vote for a political party just because of the way they...
by Diane | Jun 29, 2020 | Politics
Victor Davis Hanson wrote “Much of the country believes that America is racist, cruel, and incapable of self-correction of its so-called original sins — without a radical erasure of much of its past history, traditions, and customs.” How sad is that? ...
by Diane | Jun 22, 2020 | Ethics, Politics
UPDATE July 1. Thank you to another reader for sharing information about my father’s shtetl: Your father’s shtetl is not Sassov (which was never part of (pre Soviet) “Russia” and was only shifted between...
