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Oh BOOM cont'd: 538 Who's Ahead (National Composite) now Biden +10.1!
FiveThirtyEight.com’s poll tracking is by nature ephemeral, and what I’m posting could go away minutes later, but it’s a milestone all the same. As of 930am Eastern, today Friday Oct 9, Joe Biden is...
View ArticleCNN: Expert warns US is 1 to 3 weeks from a "rapid acceleration" of COVID-19
As Election 2020 stomps and staggers to its conclusion — almost certainly a solid Biden victory, and great odds of flipping the Senate as well — the coronavirus epidemic churns on. And the latest trend...
View ArticleAtlantic: The GOP's Demographic Doom
Ever get the growing sense that the Republican Party itself — not just Trump — is showing some real fear beneath all their amoral power-grabbing? That they’re also acting like a highly threatened...
View ArticleAw look, the 1776 Commission page on WhiteHouse.gov is DOWN
The Biden Administration is moving fast on multiple fronts… including this one! Bye bye, racist-as-f^^k white supremacist government document that lasted two short days. [And now that this is on the...
View ArticleCDC Decision on Masks: are they being Naive, or Strategic?
Like a lot of you, I read the CDC’s decision carefully and I understand it, but I’ve got some serious questions about the way it’s playing out so far in the real world, where Americans are gonna be...
View ArticleOn Covid Fear, Clickbait, and Real Risk
Last week, Dr. Fauci spoke on Meet The Press about the urgent importance of being fully vaccinated against Covid-19. He said specifically that 99.2% of American Covid deaths in June 2021 were among the...
View ArticleProvincetown, MA: Field Report from a Covid Hot Spot
We (2 dads and a preschooler) just spent the past week on vacation in Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod. Family Week, probably the planet’s highest temporary concentration of families like ours. It...
View ArticleEnough is known. Vaccinate our children NOW.
I understand why vaccines are not rushed out to the public before a series of careful processes. I understand caution. I understand due diligence. I understand that there are wise reasons for these...
View ArticleCongratulations, new Dads Pete & Chasten Buttigieg!
Between so many news stories right now that engender feelings of despair… maybe some of us need a little pick me up. Here’s one.After a lengthy journey to become parents through adoption, Pete...
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Hurricane Henri -- aiming for Long Island/CT (NYC?) -- 1st New England...
It’s not often that a hurricane makes landfall in New England and/or Long Island (part of NY State). In the past 100 years, we hadBob in 1991 (Category 2 landfall in Rhode Island)Gloria in 1985...
View ArticleWhy is CNN so invested in "VP Kamala Harris is failing" stories?
So there is a LOT happening in the world and a lot of it is difficult. But over at CNN they seem really interested in putting forth a narrative that Kamala Harris is flopping and failing. As if that’s...
View ArticleOmicron 100s of cases at Cornell. Christmas will be a Nationwide...
After almost a month of “Omicron is coming” stories… it’s here. And it’s about to spread everywhere as America’s families, the fully vaxxed and the unvaxxed, gather in person for Christmas 2021 next...
View ArticleOmicron Overwhelm: Four reasons New York City has NO IDEA how many cases...
It happened so fast — just as experts warned it would. CDC reported yesterday that an estimated 73% of new Covid cases in America this past week are the Omicron variant. I want to write about what is...
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CNN.com vs Foxnews.com, January 6 '22: Never a wider chasm than today.
Good morning. I’m avoiding Omicron/covid news for a couple of days, my kid’s at-home preschool class quarantine here (and spouse’s struggle to get any professional work done) is stressful enough....
View ArticleHopeful: NYC Covid cases have peaked, our Omicron wave is beginning to subside
I wrote a hopeful comment yesterday that I’d like to put up as a diary. The coming 1-2 months will be a nightmare for America’s healthcare system. Ed Yong of the Atlantic lays the case out in stark...
View ArticleMaking Our Kids Wear Masks: Where is the Off-Ramp?
Yesterday, we registered our pre-Kindergartener for the Summer 2022 season of outdoor day camp. There are dozens and dozens of such programs here in Brooklyn. We considered proximity, program content,...
View ArticleAnne Applebaum: UKRAINE MUST WIN.
Anne Applebaum’s writing for The Atlantic has been superb these recent months, and her piece today really brings the Ukraine tragedy into a moral and strategic imperative: a victory for Ukraine is “the...
View ArticleNYC Covid: It's rampant, it's underreported, and it's eliciting...
Hi friends, thought I’d write an update from Brooklyn, and from the Northeast Tri-State area (“Tri-State” is loosely defined as the NY-NJ-CT region in which people live somewhat near NYC and can get to...
View ArticleSuperb bio piece in The Atlantic: "Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?"
I just finished reading one of the best longer-form bio/political magazine pieces I’ve read in recent years. Elaina Plott Calabro, well done. “Marge” (her nickname among those who knew her back when)...
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