anomie

Rev. John Pavlovitz was frustrated when he woke up yesterday-- very frustrated.

"I’m strongly in favor of mandating things. If you do that, I think it’ll be a giant step towards interfering with the spread in the community."- Dr. Anthony Fauci

You know what would be amazing? That Trump winds up being so toxic that he even manages to lose the Kansas Senate seat for the Republicans! I know, I know... it's impossible. Actually it is-- literally-- impossible since even if the Schumer candidate, Barbara Bollier, wins, it's still a Republican in the seat. (A few months ago, she switched parties, although certainly not her ideology, but...

Face To Face by Nancy OhanianPlease think of this post as a continuation the 5AM piece on anomie. I had a few questions about what anomie is.

The poem about recklessness by Kaj Munk above ran late last night. Maybe you missed it... so I decided to try again this morning... since I think it's important. The author, Kaj Munk, was a Danish pastor and playwright who was murdered in 1944 for resisting the Nazis when they were occupying his country.I don't know anyone who's happy about the societal lockdown and the attendant social distancing rules.

This morning I got an urgent letter from the biggest Berniecrat in China-- an America progressive who is a longtime resident there. He was urging me to to forward it to Bernie, his wife Jane and to Faiz, his campaign manager. His concern wasn't so much about Trump using the coronavirus to call off the elections, although that is certainly a consideration.