Pearl River      Free advice is usually worth even less than that price, since it’s unsolicited and there’s no demand for it.  In the current confusion between university bosses and student protestors on various sides of the Gaza war, it seems a free for all, so I’ll jump into the dogpile with a suggestion FWIW, …

New Orleans       Living in New Orleans, the question whether to mask or not to mask, used to only happen at Mardi Gras, making it just a matter of personal choice.  Following the student protests over university divestment and an end to the Gaza war, masking has now become a political choice. Thinking about this …

            New Orleans      Protests, mostly encampments, have now broken out all over the country on college campuses, spurred by the example at Columbia and the police arrests at that New York City Ivy League university.  The arrests are now in the hundreds and the number of colleges where students have taken actions, large or …