I have never attended a Trump rally.  I don’t believe that he has held any here in Brooklyn.  If he held one, I’d go to see it first-hand.  The following account is based on reports in print and electronic media. Small groups of ticket holders line up early, often enough in miserable weather, joined just […]

I just got off the phone with one of my daughters.  She’s a math teacher in a public middle school here in New York and has to try to teach her 100 plus sixth and eighth graders “remotely”—mostly by way of links through electronic devices.  Her husband is in the same boat.  They’re both trying […]

Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln (1864), James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy (1963).  An additional fourteen presidents are considered to have been the targets of assassination attempts.  Keep in mind that there have only been 45 presidents.  (On another occasion, when things are perhaps a bit less […]