• Pandemic 2020

    Spit and snot

    I think there’s something wrong with me. Sadly, my post-retirement chillax attitude, which took a good bit of time to re-learn, has quickly devolved from hopeful optimism to growing skepticism. Sometimes, I swear, I am downright cynical. Old journalist habits die hard. For example, I’m starting to believe a good chunk of people from 2020 will be remembered as the “Un-greatest Generation.” A far cry from the “Greatest Generation,” coined by TV newsman Tom Brokaw for his 1998 book of the same name. Those upstanding American citizens born from 1900 to the 1920s lived through and experienced hardships of the Great Depression. They fought in World War II or worked…