The aura that once surrounded Sarah Palin, the most famous of Alaska polebrities, is now officially dead, and that of former President Donald Trump appears to be fading for the same reason […]
War & peace
Woke killer?
What comes now to the Kingdom of Woke in the wake of Twitter’s sale to Elon Musk? As one who has long viewed Twitter as the cesspool of intelligent thought, it is […]
Killing us softly
ISSAQUAH, WASH. – Maybe the time has come to quit fretting over Covid-19 – the latest disease nature has produced to limit a human population that has been exploding since about the […]
Riding into Wonderland
SPENCER GLACIER – The jagged, unnamed and snow-covered peaks of the Kenai Mountains clawed at a perfectly blue sky on Saturday leaving snowmachine-touring visitors from that world outside Alaska in awe and […]
How it ends?
With the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday suggesting 60 percent of Europe could be infected with the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by March, it’s a good time to […]
Viral tsunami
As people around the Pacific Rim started the week pondering the largely unpredictable, subterranean forces that spawned a new volcanic island and sent a tsunami racing across the ocean, the entire world […]
The nightmare after Xmas
Twas the day after Christmas, and across all the lands; the omicron variant was stalking holiday bands. The gifting all over, the eating well done; The good Dr. Fauci warned of the […]
Fear fades
While we were away, it appears the pandemic ended in the minds of most even as COVID-19 infection rates surged in many states; American kids grew even fatter; and the National Football League […]
Biggest epidemic
As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic rolls on with many fretting about how some have chosen to avoid vaccination, the country’s other epidemic remains a largely unmentionable that appears to worry few. Almost […]
The mask mess
Parents of Gainesville, Fla. elementary school students forced to wear face coverings for large parts of the day sent a half-dozen of the masks in to be tested for pathogens earlier […]
