Where we are, just now,

UK is patting itself on back having discovered that Dexamethasone can reduce death rate in ventilatored or oxygened Covid patients by 25% - 30%, but no use for less seriously ill. Still, this may cut the death rate by about a quarter, but it does not prevent the disease, or cure it in milder cases. Whether this will be used ( Read more... )

I prefer to think not just  what was happening to his own stone home, but several stories significant for different reasons and of different weight or emotional temperature occupied the mind of our gargoyle this week ( Read more... )

The blight: It is galling to hear this woman talk about how she is bound to follow "the will of the people," i.e.g, the ridiculous referendum which said to a questions, shall we leave the EU? yes or no. The UK parliament is utterly gerrymandered and even so to stay in power this woman requires neanderthal Northern Irish ( Read more... )

For today, my72nd birthday, I thought I'd counter the ugly vile order this POTUS issued which led to US troops without warning firing tear-gas (no longer used in combat in wars) at women and children attempting to find asylum (which is legal) on the other side of the US border: to do it this way is to encourage the perpetrators to enjoy their ( Read more... )

It's been a grim week ( Read more... )

My usual round up of important articles in the past week or so ( Read more... )

Power concedes nothing without a demand -- Frederick Douglass ( Read more... )

Dear friends, readers, and now viewers ( Read more... )

Dear friends and readers,

After three (really more) days of watching news-casts and reading journalistic pieces on what's happening in Gaza I thought I'd add my unimportant but at least here blog to say what we are seeing here is slow motion "ethnic cleansin:." periodic murdering and wanton destruction which punctuate an embargo meant to starve, ( Read more... )

Dear friends and readers,

It's the 47% that's troubling. Mitt Romney thinks 47% of Americans are deadbeats, freeloaders, people who see themselves as victims and with a right to food, shelter and health care. More than half of the US population.  The other day he said middle class people were people with $250,000 a year.

Of course this includes all ( Read more... )