
https://www.cdc.gov/places/ CHECK OUT THE INTERACTIVE MAP (WON’T WORK WITH INTERNET EXPLORER!) PLACES will allow counties, places, and local health departments regardless of population size and urban-rural status to better understand the burden and geographic distribution of health-related outcomes in their jurisdictions and assist them in planning public health interventions. This should be a big step […]
I haven’t posted since August but I have not been idle: new research, new scholarly papers and books in the offing; new poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Covid-19 or coronavirus or SARS CoV-2 has not caused me a problem, except for interrupting happy hour here in the Westport Entertainment District of Kansas City, Missouri. None of […]

Q: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” asks the Mad Hatter of Alice. A: Because both begin with the phonetic English turned r sound.

This is a conversation I had with a person in Russia last winter that contains a very important lesson about the amputation inflicted by social media and an equally important message about how freedom is connectied to political action. –D. C. Weiser Angelina November 13, 2019 at 9:53 am When behind the computer screen, it’s […]

On June 4, Public Citizen President Robert Weissman emailed the text of “former Marine general and Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s denunciation of President Trump’s calling for the military to suppress citizen protest in the wake of George Floyd’s extrajudicial killing or premeditated murder by police. Mattis’s “IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH” is a candid […]