New Shoes in the Rain

A simple message for everyone this morning....today is National Voter Registration Day in the United States.  That means that if you have not registered to vote yet in the upcoming election, you should! As regular visitors to this space know, I live in central Kentucky, and our state has done a pretty good job making is possible to vote in a variety of ways in response to the coronavirus pandemic.  In the primary election earlier this year and now in the general election, we have the privilege of choosing to vote via absentee ballot, which was formerly reserved for people with ongoing health issues that prevented them from being able to travel to polling places. And new for the general election are absentee ballot drop-boxes, or they will be, since they are due to be installed in the next week or so.  Because of the tenuous nature of mail delivery I'm holding onto ours until we can safely put them into a drop-box. I keep reading of various issues in numerous states, and it so depre

I don't know about you, but I really dislike it when public figures misstate things, whether deliberate or not.  And it seems that lately we're really having to work hard to score these errors as they occur.  This also goes for opinions held by one or more of our fellow Americans. So your erstwhile blogger has decided to devote a small amount of time and thought to this undertaking. Here goes: The coronavirus will not simply "go away."  Ever. Children and young adults are NOT fully or "nearly" immune from Covid-19.  That theory was never entirely proven, but now that we see what's happening with universities and school systems around the country resuming in-person instruction, I think we know that now. Stay-at-home orders are NOT akin to slavery, despite what the Attorney General might say. "Playing down" a national emergency is never a successful strategy, particularly if you're the President. People should not trust elected officials over

Yesterday's release of excerpts from conversations that journalist Bob Woodward conducted with President Trump revealed damning testimony by the President himself.  We already know that the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic has been lacking, but now we learn that the President knew and understood not only the gravity of the pandemic, but how the disease would spread in airborne fashion and not just by direct contact with infected persons and surfaces.  He also acknowledged that the disease affects more than just the elderly, and included children and young adults. It's hard to know what this means for the near future, since we're less than sixty days from Election Day (less if you consider the number of states allowing expanded mail-in or early voting).  I saw a few commentators saying last night that this will likely affect Trump like the Access Hollywood tape--some will be momentarily horrified, but that things will return to something close to normal in a few