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Quote for the day

Unless one has a legitimate medical reason to not get vaccinated – I’d make zero exceptions for “religious beliefs” – getting vaccinated needs to be mandatory. All employers, universities, restaurants and other business need to require their employees (the ones … Continue reading

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Civic duties

Offered an opportunity to flee the death sentence for “corrupting the youth,” Socrates chose to stay imprisoned and accept his fate. His reasoning amounted to this: He had a civic duty to live under the law, to obey a lawfully-rendered … Continue reading

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Covid perversity

Every unvaccinated adult that I know is a Trump suppoerter. Continue reading

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Today’s anniversary: Does anybody remember?

Republished from 2020-Jul-20 On this date in 1969, at just about this time, I was in the backseat of my grandparents’ car, parked next to a cornfield near Gladwin, Michigan. We were listening, like most of the world, to the … Continue reading

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An avoidable pandemic

I was very young then, but I can distinctly recall the polio scare of the 1950s. Continue reading

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