About Wisdom
By Sigrid Weidenweber The definition of wisdom is the ability to discern between falsehood and outright lies, and the truth. Yes, there are truths and one must know them. The longer I look at the world, my own surroundings, consisting of our part of the globe, the more distressed I become. I remember […]
A Student of History is not Surprised by the Riots
By Sigrid Weidenweber If you go back to the days of Rome, you will note that the empire was weakened to the point of collapse by power-mad Caesars, corrupt senators, and government officials, using unruly mobs to gain the power they could not attain otherwise. However, we do not have to go back […]
COVID – The Chinese Virus | Common Sense Gets Overpowered by Bad Science
By Sigrid Weidenweber In times like ours I delight in debate with my grandsons—fifteen and seventeen years old. Until recently we mostly saw the world in terms of common understanding. Lately our debates have become acrimonious, not only because of the corona virus, but because of the statistics the boys use to cement […]
A Lockdown Insanity Without End
By Sigrid Weidenweber The headline for my article was not minted in my mind. It came from the mouth of a German Professor of virology and, translated reads thus: Corona Wahn ohne Ende. I came by this interesting statement via German Servus TV where Dr. Professor Suchart Bhakdi was interviewed about the extent […]
The Covid Misinformation War
By Sigrid Weidenweber As the days pass, every hour, new information is being disseminated about the death count of the infectious corona virus. New models with projections of how many citizens can be counted on to die are put forth, only to be countered with different numbers a few hours later. It began […]
The World Watches the Corona Virus, as China, Covid’s Purveyor, Enlarges its Power Base
By Sigrid Weidenweber As everyone is busily hanging on every word the media gushes over us about the Chinese virus, we are so taken in by the reports, updated hourly, that most everyone has lost sight of what is taking place behind the nebulous curtain of news and psycho-babble. China, however, has not […]
Many Are the Ways in Which the Corona Virus Extorts Wealth Or, How Enforced Solitude Invites Materialism
By Sigrid Weidenweber We all know the material costs of dealing with the epidemic—the huge supplies needed to keep people safe, hygienic, and, supplied with life-saving ventilators and drugs. Then there is the economy—it is ticking along anemically, loosing billions every week because of the shut-down. Add to that the huge amounts lost […]
The Corona Virus Stimulus Package—a Power-grab for Washington
By Sigrid Weidenweber Whenever I hear Washington announce financial relief, stimulus and aid to help us, the governed, I cringe. It is a visceral response, for I have learned that every time this occurs, the result is more debt to be dealt with in the future. Milton Freedman’s famous dictate that government is […]
Musings About China’s Corona Virus
By Sigrid Weidenweber As my entire social life is concentrated in a small circle of healthy people, all shut off, I have ample time to peruse the many problems associated with viruses. Almost every flu epidemic plaguing the world had its antecedents in China or Asia. Some time ago I read an interesting […]
The Virus Creates its Very Own Potentates
By Sigrid Weidenweber It seems that the new circumstances of our lives make some governors believe that they are now invested with all kinds of powers and privileges—that the capabilities of the virus empower them to act with the force of dictators. Listening to the news, you might have gathered examples of this […]
