Author Archives
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Crime in Our Cities
These days, when I turn on the local morning news, I hear only two stories: The number of new reported cases of COVID-19 and related deaths and the number of shootings and homicides in New York City. This past year… Read More ›
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The New (Ab)normal
As a young organ student in Europe I got to visit and play the organ at the famed Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany where Bach played and is buried. Traveling there I got to see East Germany at its worst with… Read More ›
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George Orwell Was Frighteningly Correct
There is a meme floating around on Facebook that says “The only fiction of 1984 is the year.” I rarely pay attention to memes, but this one is quite correct. Orwell wrote Nineteen Eight-Four in 1949 and he warns us… Read More ›
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Biden Must Build On Trump
Of late, I have been finding that, in many cases, political opinion is based more on wishful thinking than actual facts. As a supporter of President Trump I have had to accept two realities : Barring a political earthquake, the… Read More ›
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Hello and Welcome
This group originally started in Facebook with a secret group under the same name. However, Facebook has started to practice censorship and I felt, being a secret group, I was preaching to the choir everyday. I will be publishing blogs… Read More ›