For me, this song captures the emotion of the scary year we are leaving and whatever hope there may be for the one we are entering. Where’s the reset button?
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Toxicology
For almost 15 years I traveled to hospitals and installed clinical computer systems. Some of the hospitals were large medical centers like Walter Reed, while others were small rural facilities. The government classifies the smallest of them as Critical Access Hospitals.
Trump’s influence has been so toxic that he threatens the already shaky standing of CAHs. The line has been crossed from rugged individualism into willful ignorance.
Who is Howard Roark?
Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
Issued on: December 21, 2020
In the 1950s, the Federal Government largely replaced traditional designs for new construction with modernist ones.
Rand Paul should explain Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead to Trump.
Dickens’ Agnostic Christmas
Brian Sibley surveys the creation and many adaptations of A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol is not about the birth of Jesus. Although Scrooge undergoes a conversion, it is not one of religious faith. Regrets of the past and being forced to confront his inevitable death don’t lead Scrooge to a concern about the afterlife; instead, he wants to make amends and improve the lives of others in the present.
Regarding baby Jesus, Sibley has written a thoughtful and sensitive fantasy interpretation of the event, in Joseph and the Three Gifts: An Angel’s Story.
Lord of the Star Potter
ABBA Above All
This past week on the DVR I watched the PBS documentary The Eugenics Crusade, showing how the American Eugenics movement contributed to Hitler’s nightmare of a Master Race. Then I watched a PBS fundraiser feature, ABBA Forever: A Celebration. The two programs have a connection in the person of Frida, whose mother bore her as a German soldier’s “Lebensborn” baby, during the Nazi occupation of Norway.
Speaking of PBS, that’s where A Charlie Brown Christmas can be watched tonight. Quite a switch from decades of airing on commercial TV. And with that comment, this posts ticks three of my blog categories.