Don’t wake the baby

This bit was written in early April of 2020, when we were still all coming to grips with the reality of COVID. A house down the road from us has a campaign sign in the front yard that looks quaint these days.  It reads “Any functioning adult: 2020”.  Indeed, there is a common theme in …

Pravda

Those readers who are old enough should remember the flagship news publication of the USSR, “Pravda”. One can imagine that most Soviet citizens viewed this title with a certain degree of irony. Pravda translates as Truth, and the Communist Party viewed truth as “whatever was required of the moment for people to believe”. Eventually, the …