Before reaching back to my past on nostalgia Tuesday, first a lot of news items for today.  I'll mostly hint at the topics, so you can click on the links to follow up in detail. The biggest of all of them is the matter of democracy vs dictatorship.  The headline of the day: Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans Finally, Chief Justice John Roberts showed some backbone on the matter of President Trump's call for impeachment of all judges who ruled against him. This  deportation case  now appears to be the issue. How important is this comeuppance?  Very, for if Trump continues to do as he pleases, he becomes a dictator. Trump is already in control of two parts of our government, his White House and the U.S. Congress.  The third leg is the Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court has no enforcement capabilities.   The Supreme Court, while having the power to interpret laws and the Constitution, lack...

President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19.  The four shots and Paxlovid worked well. Authorities don't know how best to  de-stigmatize Monkeypox , but: The global   monkeypox outbreak   appears to mostly affect men who have sex with other men.   A study published   in the   New England Journal of Medicine   found that 98% of people diagnosed with the virus between April and June in more than a dozen countries identify as gay or bisexual men, and   the WHO says   that 99% of U.S. cases are related to male-to-male sexual contact. Maybe the best policy is to just focus on this community. As of a week ago there were  14,000 cases and only 5 deaths.   While in the past  monkeypox  had a 5% mortality rate, the strain that is currently dominating has a much lower death rate, similar to COVID-19 before vaccinations.  There is a vaccine, and if given within four days of exposure, protects about 85% of the time...