I am sick. Not sick of coronavirus, but sick of the coronavirus-powered control freaks who shriek and virtue-signal at the prospect of people outside an intimate bubble seeing each other in person and at every unbemasked face. It started in April when some fed-up business owners came out to protest the ongoing lockdown. In response,…
Month: December 2020
Roll With It: Diving into 2021
If you haven’t surfed or gone swimming in the ocean, you may not know the most effective way to get out behind the waves. You can, of course, as many people do, try to jump up over them and swim against them. This is less efficient than diving under the waves and letting the wave…
Geographic Context on Christmas Day bombing in #Nashville
I’d had a hunch that downtown Nashville would shut down this Christmas season, but I thought it would be due to rising COVID cases, not a bomb. As it is, Nashville already had in place a 10 pm curfew and restricted groups to 8 in late November in order to try to mitigate a surge…