More than 500,000 dead. A sad commentary on our ability to take charge of this pandemic. Meaning it’s time- right now (or maybe we’re already too late to start) – to start preparing for the next one.
Continue reading Let’s Plan For the Next Pandemic
Oh, no, not again…
Even when our government wants to help small businesses, they seem to fall all over themselves.
Continue reading Second bite of the apple?
Well, what a surprise- NOT!
I’ve been writing about conditions in meat/chicken processing facilities for a while. Both beef and poultry processors have been finagling less oversight from the Department of Agriculture for a while. (Here’s a 2013 post about how conditions have been “improved”. That’s for the plant owners, not the workers or the product purchasers.)
Talk about the new normal! Bet you that 12 months ago, almost every one of us would complain about the government speak in the headlines. What the heck (yeah, I know, most of us rely on WTF) does WFH mean? Now, it rolls off our tongues like we've known this concept for decades!
By now, y’all know that the Federal Government has an approved budget (through September 2021; the end of the Fiscal Year)- and the CARES act provisions have been extended/modified. This involved a 5593 page bill (and the GOP complained that Obamacare was long!), the majority of which was the budget ($1.4 trillion of the $2.3 trillion package) which also took a significant portion of the verbiage (1815 pages; actually that’s less than 1/3 the total document length).
Continue reading CARES Act 2. Or what a 5593 page law doth bring (Part 1)
Given the pandemic and this topic, I had high hopes.
But, unlike the Philadelphia Phillies’ theme song (a song Frank Sinatra sang [from the movie “A Hole in the Head”] decades ago and we half-dozen child prodigies studying in college at the age of 8 adopted as our theme song, too), this hope got deflated in a heartbeat.
Continue reading We’re all becoming resourceful masked riders
This was the first year in decades that I hadn’t spent 30 days at a baseball stadium. OK, not just any stadium, but either Phillies stadium (Citizen’s Bank) or one where the Phillies would be visiting another team.
Continue reading It’s pucked up!
