Dispatches from a Scamdemic

People ascribe magic to a calendar. And life is full of train metaphors. On the first day of kindergarten, in order to teach us the months and give her class a sense of identity and community, my teacher cut a locomotive and twelve train cars out of construction paper of several…
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Some might say that my posts preach to the choir that already understands that Coronamania has been a massive scam. This criticism would be fair, but it…
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On a late February, 1993 Sunday afternoon, I visited my Uncle Johnny in Rockville, Maryland. Johnny had liver cancer and had just finished a desperate…
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I like clever pranks. I’ve had some pulled on me and had to take my hat off to the perpetrators. And I’ve played some on other people. All were intended…
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Over the course of my life, I’ve read many books. I don’t say this boastfully; to the contrary, if you visited my house, randomly pulled down a book…
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The Vietnam War inflicted great pain: 58,220 Americans—average age, 23— were killed, along with over one million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians…
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Ending the Scamdemic—at least for now—was simple. The self-styled judo expert/ice hockey-playing (but not very good, take my word for it) badass, Putin…
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Dear Readers: In May, 2020, I started writing stories about Coronamania. Until now, I hadn’t written about the beginning of the craziness; I was focused…
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Dispatches from a Scamdemic

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