My question is prompted by the nomination and likely approval of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court and the reactions to that.  She is, without question, a conservative.  Some ascribe that conservatism to her deeply held religious beliefs.  Some believe that those beliefs make her unqualified while others all but completely hold the opposite […]

When a politician, TV anchor or newspaper opinion writer starts out by saying that “Everyone agrees”, I think it’s time to pay attention.  There are not too many instances where everybody agrees—except about something that’s really wonderful or awful.  Everybody does agree, I think, that a rainbow in the sky is beautiful.  They also all […]

On Friday, July 10th, it rained hard all day in Brooklyn.  Come mid-afternoon, we decided we needed some stuff from the nearby supermarket.  Because it was pouring, I took our car.  As I left the house, I was preoccupied with keeping my facemask dry. I parked the car, put the mask in my jacket pocket […]