Category: Random Thoughts on Politics

5/20 I’m reading this book, “This Terrible Beauty,” by Katrin Schumann.  It is about Germany at the end of WWII and the separation between East and West Germany. It’s mostly about the East, the Russian led side.  It travels to America and back again, following a young girls journey until adulthood. Anyway there are a […]

5/10 Watching the news is so depressing. This whole Corona virus and most of the nation out of work and businesses closing. There are no easy answers. One of the things that upset me the most is the violence associated with wearing face masks. People have died, been murdered, trying to enforce this simple rule. […]

5/8/20 Random Thoughts on Politics I just saw on tv that one of Virginia’s senators, Amanda Chase, is backing a planned protest at the state capital and encouraging protesters to attend a “safe rally.”  What does that mean. Does she really believe protesters will be 10 feet apart and wear face masks? The protest is […]