At 50, Everyone has the Face They Deserve ~ George Orwell

 

Freud Series #7: Sang Freud (Last In the Series)

 

Freud Series #5:Freudo Lives!

 

Road trip: Guided by Voices

 

It is a Greater Honor For ME!

 This idea popped into my head after watching Tom Waits’ induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on YouTube. During his acceptance speech, he mentioned that he had been given the Key to the City of El Paso. My mind immediately went to Alaska, where recent per-capita case rate for COVID-19 is the highest in the United States, and higher than any country in the world. COVID-19 is running wild here yet the Mayor has refused to support a mask mandate, and consequently our hospitals now are forced to ration care. People who don’t even have COVID are being turned away from emergency rooms. The Mayor protests that the scientific validation of masks and vaccinations is lacking, He seems to be running an experiment of his own, one that is proving how wrong he is in handing the key to the city to the pandemic.

Star Crossed

 Anchorage anti-maskers abused history in protests against a proposed ordinance requiring masking at indoor events to curb the spread of COVID. Somehow in the minds of the protestors this ordinance became comparable to the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, with the part of the Jews played by the anti-maskers, who signified their role by wearing yellow Stars of David, as Jews were forced to in Nazi-occupied Europe. The anti-maskers did this to protest an ordinance that will save lives, not mark them for extinction. Our mayor initially backed this tortured symbolic logic saying it was a credit to the Jews. Later he backed off, with a classic faux apology, saying “If I offended anyone, I am truly sorry.” Apparently he is not sorry for backing a grotesque misinterpretation of history.