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Fighting For Reality: Trump & Testing

Posted on May 11, 2020May 12, 2020 by ScottSoriano

Over the last couple weeks, when talking to friends, one of us mentions “Groundhog Day,” a reference to the feeling of living the same day over and over. It’s an odd and frustrating feeling that invites complacency and dulls critical thinking. Events melt and words become “Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah….yadda yadda…blah blah.”…

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Little Richard Wayne Penniman 1932 -2020

Posted on May 9, 2020May 11, 2020 by ScottSoriano

When I was a kid, my mom plopped a box of 45s in front of me and said, “Have at ‘em.” From then on, while other kids were out playing, I’d be in my room with that box, playing 45 after 45 on a junky record player, making stacks of the bad ones, the good…

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Dear Donald,

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by ScottSoriano

Don’t call me a warrior. I served, but I’m not a goddamn warrior. Neither are all the loudmouths that your warrior talk is for. Yeah, I know the “warrior” stuff is for the Trump cult and not the janitors, nurses, doctors, orderlies, cashiers, stock clerks, drivers, and others who expose themselves every day to the…

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Flippity Flop: Mission Far From Accomplished

Posted on May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 by ScottSoriano

On Monday, Donald Trump said that he was breaking up the band. One day later, the band was back together. The Coronavirus Task Force, Trump said, would continue but maybe with a different focus, different personnel, Trump didn’t know, but something different. Anyway, the important thing is that the Task Force was “popular.” Trump knows…

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Michael McClure 1932 – 2020

Posted on May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 by ScottSoriano

The poet Michael McClure died this week, due to complications from a stroke he suffered a couple years’ back. McClure was one of the early participants in San Francisco’s Beat scene. He not only wrote poetry, but organized some of the movement’s key events. His continued presence in the Bay Area’s literary scene was a…

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The United States Is Not Sweden

Posted on May 5, 2020 by ScottSoriano

Over the past month, some American conservatives have been pimping the Swedish model for fighting COVID-19. Unlike most of Europe, the Swedes have not instituted shelter-in-place orders or closed non-essential businesses. The government has issued a set of guidance on physical distancing and basic hygiene and, as far as directives are concerned, that is that….

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We Are Still Riding The First Wave. Let’s Keep On Keepin’ On.

Posted on May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 by ScottSoriano

First wave. We are in the first wave of the coronavirus, still climbing the crest. If things “go good” we might ride the crest in July, until then it is more bad. A new Center for Disease Control (CDC) document states that May will be crueler than April. From Talking Points Memo, The document says…

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50 Years After Kent State

Posted on May 4, 2020 by ScottSoriano

It has been 50 years since the Kent State Massacre. On May 4, 1970, twenty-eight National Guardsmen used up all of 13 seconds to file 67 rounds into a crowd of students, killing 4 and injuring 9, one of whom became paralyzed for life. Why did the students get mowed down? Well, some were protesting…

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Maj Sjöwall: An Obituary

Posted on May 2, 2020May 5, 2020 by ScottSoriano

On the evening of April 29 in Landskrona, Sweden, Maj Sjöwall died. That she died when she died is no surprise – she had been ill for quite a while – but, to those who admired her writing, Sjöwall’s death is deeply felt. With her partner, Per Wahlöö, Sjöwall created a ten-volume series of mystery…

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Like Kerosene on Fire

Posted on May 1, 2020May 5, 2020 by ScottSoriano

More than 70% of Americans support scientifically-based COVID mitigation/control measures such as stay-at-home/shelter-in-place orders, physical distancing, wearing masks, and routine hand-washing. This is not some regional thing: 76% of North Carolinians,  82% of Oregonians, 80% of Mainers, and 95% of Los Angelinos support COVID measures. Even in Michigan, besieged by far right protesters, support is…

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