Barbara died November 24, 2023
We went to bed Thanksgiving night and everything was fine. At 8:15 in the morning she was on her way to the bathroom and started crying. It soon became obvious…
MEMORIES OF MY SISTER JUDI (JUDITH YANOWITZ SINGER), 1943-2021
For Judi’s memorial in late 2021, people who knew and cared about her, of whom there were many, were invited to write down memories to share. I couldn't do it,…
O Clickbaiting! How Did Capitalism Ever Get Along without Thee?? (Notes on media manipulation of our minds)
O Clickbaiting! How Did Capitalism Ever Get Along without Thee?? It appears that advertising as a profession and a business arose in the late 19th century.[1] With the advent of…
Notes on opposing the invasion of Ukraine
As with so many others around the world, and as with the Patty Hearst kidnapping or 9/11, the Ukraine invasion has riveted my attention. While on the one hand I…
Some paternal family history
[I wrote the following in response to discussion of this photo from my father’s side of a family history Facebook site created and managed by Jesse Nasta of Wesleyan University.]…
OU SONT LES PROGRESSIVES D’ANTAN?
Early in the Trump years, to keep up with what progressives in my State were thinking, I signed on to Action Together Connecticut, a progressive Facebook group. Until recently, my…
Should the social media age change our approach to free speech?
For some time—at least months and probably much longer—I’ve been struggling with what the Trump experience may be teaching us, whether we like it or not, about free speech limitations—a…
Some lessons from having had Covid-19
In late 2020, Barbara and I contracted covid-19, discussed in this PDF, which is in two broad but (to me) related parts: A compilation, sometimes edited, of messages I wrote…
On a call for censorship of a controversial book
A recent free-speech controversy centers on a book that challenges (at least in part--I haven't read the book) legitimizing trans surgery for minors, as opposed to adults. The author, Abigail…
Thoughts on going home again: are our resist-trumpism efforts an effort to restore a flawed past?
Soon after a recent, protracted political discussion that included a number of references to “going back to” some pre-election Eden, the following thoughts came to me—probably voiced elsewhere, but nothing…
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