The Blinking Head

Some News items. But mainly personal opinions that may be unreasonable, without warrant, meaningless and shameless but relentless and consistent as a blinking light. Of course there is that story about Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the guy who discovered and named oxygen & hydrogen and executed during the reign of terror. He purportedly asked a servant to see if his eyes blinked after he was beheaded. No one could prove the story. But maybe we can see after death.

Sunday, January 17, 2021

Discharge from the Navy, 1967

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 It was 54 years ago, tomorrow, on January 18th that I received my DD 214 (Separation Papers) from the U.S. Navy. It was 10 days earlier tha...
Friday, November 6, 2020

Excuses for Trump

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Excuses for Trump Why are there excuses made for Donald J. Trump? Supporters and of course GOP operatives and those Republicans in el...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

The tragic murder of Breonna Taylor

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I've put together this assessment and opinion based on news reports. I have no other information. The Breonna Taylor legal outcome is as...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Are the police the sole problem in America?

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How do we end the police excessive violence, in so many cases murder towards African Americans in the United States? Big question. And ...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

How is the Pandemic of 1918 different from the Pandemic of 2020?

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Things were not so great during the pandemic of a century ago, especially negligent was the federal government and Woodrow Wilson. The ...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

The morbidity of words and phrases

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Words.  Phrases.  Sometimes they are just words and phrases. But while the pandemic, plague, epidemic whatever you want to call it words bec...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

My latest political musings

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My political musings: The Nazis in Germany and Fascists in Italy (I couldn't say about Spain or Portugal) came to power for a number of...
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