Earlier today, with American COVID-19 deaths passing the 100-mark, and our trajectory looking like that of Italy, Donald Trump tried to make the case that he’s been taking this very real public health crisis seriously from the outset. Asked by a reporter why his tone was markedly different today than yesterday, and noticeably more serious, […]
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“I’ve always known this is a real — this is a pandemic,” says Donald Trump, unaware, apparently, that we can look up his past statements
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alex Azar, Anthony Fauci, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, H1N1, holding people responsible, individual responsibility, International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, miracles, pandemic, PHE, PHEIC, pneumonia, post-truth, public health, public health emergency, Public Health Emergency of International Concern, rewriting history, World Heath Organization, Wuhan 110 Comments
My friend, Ned Cartledge, on the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp
With everyone talking about the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my mind went, as it often does when thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, to my friend, the Atlanta folk artist Ned Cartledge. Cartledge, as I may have mentioned here before, saw the horrors of the Nazis firsthand toward the end of the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1945, 82nd Airborne, 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion, Atlanta, Auschwitz, cesspool, concentration camps, Dwight D. Eisenhower, folk art, Gardelegen, Gardelegen massacre, genocide, Germany, holocaust, holocaust denial, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Kurt Vonnegut, Lorrie Mell, Ludwigslust, Nazi, Ned Cartledge, Neuengamme, propaganda, racism, scapegoats, starvation, torture, Unitarian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, war, war crimes, Wöbbelin, World War II 7 Comments