The Coming Thanksgiving Dinner Rumble
What should be a pleasant harmonious family time, Thanksgiving day gatherings often turns into a rhetorical and gastrological rumble....
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Ron Baron
- May 21, 2021
- 5 min
Modern Church Ladies
The Judgmentalist are everywhere. Back in 1986, some lowly Saturday Night Live costume courtier was asked to procure a laughably modest...
Ron Baron
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
The Mask: Nanometers vs. Millimeters
If wearing a mask has provided you with security and confidence and reading something that questions those assumptions will make you...
Ron Baron
- Mar 4, 2021
- 4 min
First Shall Be Last, and the Last Shall be First
There are millions of us boomers. Unlike newborns who are mostly sleeping, smooth, healthy, and nary a care in the world, we suffer from...
Ron Baron
- Feb 12, 2021
- 5 min
The 2020 Olympics:Â The Most Gender Diverse Games Ever
You must have noticed- the 2020 Summer Olympics games were canceled and rescheduled. A victim to the pandemic, the games are now to be...
Ron Baron
- Feb 4, 2021
- 5 min
Nosophobia on the Front Porch
There is an attractive young family that lives nearby. If posed standing proudly on the porch of their modest mid-century two-story, they...
Ron Baron
- Jan 30, 2021
- 5 min
In Search of Essential
Have you ever attempted to list all the essential things in your life? All the things that would be difficult to live without? Perhaps,...
Ron Baron
- Jan 21, 2021
- 4 min
Things Learned Standing on a Dot
It is difficult to fathom that we’ve been asked to keep one fathom (1 fathom = 6 feet or 1.8 meters) apart for nearly a year already. It...
Ron Baron
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
Government: Efficient When Motivated.
Two major things happened in America today. 1. The outrage of our political elites has taken the political carcass of a president,...
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- Jan 2, 2021
- 1 min
Never to Old to 'Start'
Many opinions exist as to the changes to our collective mental health the pandemic of 2020 has caused. The data shows a rise in anxiety...
Ron Baron
- Dec 25, 2020
- 4 min
2020: The Year Hubris Met Its Match
Seventy-three years ago, Albert Camus wrote a novel he titled ‘The Plague.’ It shouldn’t surprise anyone that it has enjoyed a resurgence...
Ron Baron
- Dec 16, 2020
- 5 min
A Shop Keepers’ Elegy- May the Spring Winds Blow Warm
Just a rumor, but I’ve heard another of my favorite eateries will not reopen due to the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic. In...
Ron Baron
- Nov 20, 2020
- 5 min
Will Masks go Down as a Debunked 'Wives Tale?'
Just a refresher; sitting too close to the TV will not make you go blind, pulling out a grey hair will not create two new grey hairs,...
Ron Baron
- Aug 19, 2020
- 5 min
Hate, Medications, and Other Remedies
Judging from politicians’ response, the media, and millions of social media pundits, Hydroxychloroquine was likely brewed deep in hell on...
Ron Baron
- Aug 6, 2020
- 4 min
Hydroxychloroquine: Placebo or Nocebo?
I am fortunate in that my primary physician is also a friend. Fortunate, in that as friends, we communicate beyond the treatment of my...
Ron Baron
- Jun 7, 2020
- 4 min
To Foretell the Future
Many small fortunes have been made by those who claim some ability to foretell the future. A few have managed rather large fortunes from...
Ron Baron
- May 25, 2020
- 4 min
Rearing Kids: Free-Range vs. 'Safetyism'
The term 'free-range' is sometimes found on an egg carton. It denotes the difference between an egg-laying hen allowed to roam about...
Ron Baron
- May 2, 2020
- 4 min
Flying in the Age of the Mask
I may have watched too much TV. Too many shows where a face mask meant the bank was getting robbed or the bad cowboys were about to shoot...
Ron Baron
- Apr 27, 2020
- 4 min
Derriere and 'Follow the Science'
Frankly, I don’t care what your political stripes are. If you’re a celebrity, I really, really don’t care. Equally, I don’t think you...
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