John Garvey — February 7, 2022 [Originally published in Hard Crackers}. It seems increasingly likely that a real end to the COVID pandemic will require all but universal vaccination.[1] There are three challenges that need to be met: The development of much more effective strategies to work with those individuals who continue to hesitate about getting vaccinated. The […]
War is hell! Peace is better?
If we want to stop the war, we’ll have to end the peace! As probably just about everyone here today knows, everyday life in peacetime is deadly for people all over the world. Many people die but many more survive for living deaths — lives without hopes or dreams. There’s a connection between the deaths […]
It’s up to us not to heed the call-up
This article was written as a companion piece to an article by Mike Morgan under the shared title of “Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory.“ In 1980, the great English punk band, The Clash, recorded a powerful anti-war song titled “The Call-up.” While the call-up initially refers to the drafting of soldiers into the armed […]