Monthly Archives: July 2021

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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Lying for Jesus

In 2015, [God] spoke to me and said Donald Trump would become president,” Christmas said. “Did not look possible. He became president. Most of us thought that he would become president again this time, and he was. He won it … Continue reading

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