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A Step-Away Day

A Step-Away Day

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Aug 24, 2020
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These are dreadful days. Deaths from COVID-19 have passed 170,000 in our country. The temperatures in Death Valley reached 130 degrees earlier this week. (This appears to be the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.) Rare winds ruined the lives, homes, and businesses of many folks in Iowa. Wildfires rage in California like something out of a horror movie. The potential of a double hurricane, a first, exists in the Gulf of Mexico.

Yet disinformation is more prevalent than ever. Science and truth are constantly under attack, while ignorance is championed. As is the United States Postal Service and honest journalism. (Seriously, if you’re making arguments against the post office and spewing them like a rancid parrot, you’ve been co-opted. And don’t get me started on those lashing out at journalism. Remember, I used to own and run a small newspaper—so don’t fake news this writer.) Climate change deniers are working to harden us to realities and neglect of the physical world.

I woke u…

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