(So, here I am coming back here again. I figure that it just makes sense to be ignored in as many venues as possible.) I watched The United States vs. Billie Holliday last night. Terrific film. Andra Day should have won an Oscar for her performance as Billie. But it was literally a terrific film because of the horrifying story it tells about an America so deeply steeped in race hatred that the stain remains uncleansed sixty-three years after the FBI hounded her to death.

I have given up on Medium several times. Too much information, not enough differentiation, but that’s true about the entire information environment in which we now find ourselves. Friends of mine who have fled from Facebook are coming back again because, in the information age, Facebook provides an immediate fix…

“In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Lue Elizondo claimed the aircraft were undetectable on radar and could pull “6-to-700 g-forces” and “fly at 13,000 miles an hour.” And on Wednesday he claimed more than just reports exist.” The Fox News report from that paragon of reporting Tucker Carlson (cited above)…

I DON’T WANT TO RAIN ON YOUR PARADE BUT I’VE GOT GEORGIA ON MY MIND This isn’t over yet…and it won’t be over until the fate of the two Senate seats from Georgia are decided when Georgians go back to the polls on January 5, 2021. Joe Biden’s very slender…

The CDC is now claiming that there may be ten times as many people who have been infected with COVID-19 as the official estimates indicate. (From NBC News via AOL) PROBLEMS: This is the CDC dominated by the Trump administration and therefore everything they report must be scrutinized carefully. This…

It is the height of absurdity to suggest that we do away with our police forces. There isn’t a country or a major city in the world that doesn’t have a police force. Even the Vatican City has a police force. Like it or not, there are violent criminals in…

There are a number of potential extinction-level events that scientists worry about. There’s nuclear war, of course, and meteors, climate change…and pandemics. The Pandemic Extinction Level Event just because a lot more feasible because it could be happening around us as you read these words. First, the good news. We…