by Gary Simpson | May 9, 2020
Trouble, oh we got trouble, right here in River City! With a capital “T” that rhymes with “P”and that stands for P… In Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man, the sleepy little town of River City is woken up and thrown into a moral panic when Prof....
by Gary Simpson | May 1, 2020
In an earlier post from April 7 I commented briefly on a popular cliché that has become the go-to mantra of the current pandemic, “We’re all in this together.” Three weeks hence and a revealing set of data later, it has become clear that the message conveyed in this...
by Gary Simpson | Apr 21, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is and has been the top breaking news story for many weeks, and will remain so for weeks (likely months) to come. Meanwhile, this week lying buried under the ever dominant news of the plague is the 50 year old news story of a ground breaking,...
by Gary Simpson | Apr 16, 2020
Breathe on me, breath of God Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit…” [John 20:21-22] It’s Sunday evening, the end of the worst...
by Gary Simpson | Apr 7, 2020
“We’re all in this together.” We are seeing it plastered all over our TV screens in news broadcasts and commercial advertisements day after day, hour after hour. It’s the new mantra of a divided, distressed and diseased nation in the throes of an unrelenting,...
by Gary Simpson | Mar 30, 2020
It’s a whole new game Humanity is now in the throes of a whole new ballgame played with a strict set of rules and survival as the end-game. Think of it as “viral dodge ball.” This is a game of the survival of the fittest. In the midst of a global pandemic, the...