A Thousand Points of Light
Many things have been cancelled because of the coronavirus. Love is not one of them. “Faith in the time of Coronavirus“, James Martin, S. J., Americ...
Author: Will Cox
What I Hope–and Fear
I hope there will be a great coming together of society, as people from all walks of life realize that we are all in this together. We leave the world a better ...
What if…
What if we helped each other? What if there were no bullshit jobs? What if health care, sick leave, insurance, retirement, …, weren’t tied to your e...
Garbage-In, Garbage-Out
Here’s a logic puzzle for you. If testing for COVID-19 only if another test for COVID-19 is positive, when do you ever test? Answer: you don’t. Luck...
Personal Hygiene is Public Hygiene
Isn’t it remarkable how the recommendations for what to do if you get sick are basically the same regardless of the cause? Wash your hands. Don’t pi...
A Simple Rate Tweak Should Do It
Last week, the Federal Reserve and others lowered interest rates in an attempt to counteract the effects of COVID-19 on the economy. Also last week, The Economi...
Escape from New York
If you’re old enough, you might remember that in 2001 all non-military air traffic was grounded for a couple of days. It’s possible, under extraordi...
“Trust in Me….”
Oh, Kaa. Only one-fifth of us trust the federal government to do the right thing. And trust — in politicians and the government they represent — turns out t...
You Can’t Eat Silicon
Even the New York Times is feeling apocalyptic, with a nice piece about folks learning primitive skills. There’s an air of novelty about the article, but ...
Don’t Panic
It may be this is the End of Days, or it may not. We shall see, though it has certainly looked like this century has been rhyming with the last since at least 2...
Thou Preparest a Table Before Me
Last Sunday, the pastor of Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church asked for help cleaning the tiny cups used for Communion. They’d switched to glass, or back ...
Living on Margin
Instant gratification is made possible by just-in-time delivery. What if just-in-time never arrives? I have four eggs left in the refrigerator and half a gallon...
Echoes of Holy Wisdom
What we can do with physics and math–and curiosity–is awe-inspiring. Natural light moving across the surfaces of marble and gold causes glitter that...
What Practice?
Doesn’t this miss the point? Tenzin Priyadarshi, a Buddhist monk and the CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. To auto...
Pride Goeth Before
Most of us find it hard to admit mistakes. Was the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak worsened because admitting the scope of the problem, or that a problem even e...
Why Don’t We Like Joe Biden?
FiveThirtyEight’s Perry Bacon, Jr., offers some hypotheses to answer the burning question of why Millennials don’t like Joe Biden. Well, I don’...
Put the responsibility where it belongs: the manufacturer
Finally, someone bothering to talk about whose fault all this plastic crap is. It’s not the consumer’s. It’s the producer’s. Senator Tom...
There’s a World Outside Your Window
Look. Bit of a thunderstorm this morning. All that rain drumming on the roof suggested I stay in bed, so I made oatmeal for breakfast. Just before sitting down ...
Old Friends
Wandering around a new library this morning, guided by Dewey’s decimals, I walked back into the past and other libraries I’d read. Here, I found Anthony Bou...