Seattle City Council member Kshwana Sawant, a socialist activist, has plenty of detractors. The late Dr. Steve Schwartz, founder of this blog, was one of them. I’m not a fan either. But she’s won four elections, and after a recall attempt failed last year, her enemies are reduced to flin[...]
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Why did Covid-19 kill more Republicans than Democrats?
Multiple academic studies have indicated that Republican were statistically more likely to die of Covid-19 than Democrats. The latest, a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, concludes, “Average excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among Republicans than [...]
March 21st, 2022 - 2:41 pm § in Misc.
Hitler couldn’t kill him; Putin did
Borys Romanchenko (photo, left), 96, was a Holocaust victim who survived Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora, and Bergen-Belsen. He would have been 19 years old in April 1945, so it’s amazing he survived the camps. In recent years, was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee, a[...]
March 8th, 2022 - 1:29 am § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
The saga of an American journalist’s hasty departure from Russia
She’s out now, having caught a last-minute flight to Istanbul, Turkey — an exit gateway for many people fleeing Russia right now. Molly Schwartz was there on an exchange program, her visit cut short by Putin’s war against Ukraine. She says while Ukrainian refugees are “leavin[...]
December 27th, 2021 - 10:26 pm § in Health
Covid cases don’t tell the whole story
The Hill says, “For nearly two years, Americans have looked carefully at coronavirus case numbers in the country and in their local states and towns to judge the risk of the disease.” (See story here.) Actually, I haven’t done that. I looked at what Covid-19 does to people, then qu[...]
December 25th, 2021 - 6:58 am § in Misc.
Christmas 2021
“When He was born into the world, the world knew it not. He was laid in a rude manger, among the cattle, but “all {252} the Angels of God worshipped Him.” Now too He is present upon a table, homely perhaps in make, and dishonoured in its circumstances; and faith adores, but the world passe[...]
A house of 72 cats
“An accidental shooting led police in New Hampshire to a house that was overrun with more than 70 cats,” ABC News reported on Friday, December 10, 2021. The circumstances were a man went to an ER after shooting himself while cleaning a rifle, the hospital reported it to the police, they [...]
December 7th, 2021 - 8:00 pm § in Politics
Polls close in Sawant recall election
Since 2013, Kshama Sawant has been a Seattle City Council member. Now, voters in her district are being asked to kick her off the council before her term ends. Dr. Steve Schwartz, the late founder of this blog, wasn’t a fan of hers; and if you search this blog, you’ll find stories critic[...]
October 5th, 2021 - 1:45 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Archaeologists find toilet
Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have found a 2,700-year-old toilet. ABC News reported on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 (read story here, if you’re so inclined). “A private toilet cubicle was very rare in antiquity,” and only the rich could afford them, the director of the excavation sai[...]
September 9th, 2021 - 12:26 am § in Politics
Sawant likely to face recall election in Feb. 2022
Kshama Sawant’s opponents submitted petitions that could result in a recall election next February, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 (read story here). Sawant (photo, right), 47, is a Seattle City Council member who identifies as a Socialist Alternative candidate. Her[...]