The Rona

If you want to find someone guilty, you will not lack evidence. Chinese proverb   A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. Frederick Douglas By Dr. Jim Ferguson Well, despite being very careful, getting vaccinated,...

Starting over

  As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea- And that-a further–and the Three But a presumption be- Of Periods of Seas- Unvisited of Shores- Themselves the Verge of Seas to be- Eternity-is Those- Emily Dickinson By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m a stargazer,...

Crises of Government and Common Sense

Those things that hurt, instruct. Benjamin Franklin By Dr. Jim Ferguson Unlike leftists and wokesters, I admire the Founders of our country. Biographies are not my preferred genre, but I’ve read well-researched books about John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and Ben...

Code Red

If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny. Elon Musk   It is easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled. Mark Twain By Dr. Jim Ferguson It is hard for me to imagine what Joe Biden is thinking....

Courage

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. –Nelson Mandela   Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. –Winston Churchill   By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes beginning an essay is the most difficult part. My English...

Recovering

Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us in the act of sickness…...