by Tom Morgan | Mar 6, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
Are you frightened by this virus? You should be. Consider these scary figures please.Consider up to 45 million Americans infected by this virus. Yes, 45 million!!! With three exclamation points!Consider from 350,000 to 560,000 Americans so sick with it they have to be...
by Tom Morgan | Feb 28, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
A few thoughts on this nasty virus. Thoughts about scavengers. Grandmothers. And stocks.First, a gentle message to our politicians. Unless you have something helpful to say, please shut up!You are vultures that swoop over and peck away at carcasses. You make political...
by Tom Morgan | Feb 21, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
The network I watched took us into the Spin Room after the latest debate. There, a few dozen spin doctors bobbed and weaved and chattered like robots. Each was programed to dodge, elude, evade, change the subject, “reframe” the question and mis-direct.Your candidate...
by Tom Morgan | Feb 14, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
As you know, we harbor a lot of cynicism in this country. Especially when it comes to politics and politicians. In the last few weeks I was three times reminded why. One reminder was a Donald Trump campaign commercial. It ran footage of both President Clinton...
by Tom Morgan | Feb 7, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
Today, let us celebrate dirty laundry. But before we do… At least there is one thing most Americans are united on these days: Americans are divided. The State of the Union circus was proof of that. As was the impeachment. As was the Mueller Report. Politics?...
by Tom Morgan | Jan 31, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
Lessons in the much-abused Art of Insult. Deplorables have been on my mind. Of course, they have been in the news a lot lately. Guests on a recent CNN show lampooned the deplorables who support President Trump. In response, Trump lovers lightning-zipped that video...
by Tom Morgan | Jan 24, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
Most of us know that upstate New York struggles. When it comes to economic matters it does. Fewer new jobs, new businesses and expanding businesses than most parts of the U.S. enjoy. Upstaters suffer nearly the lowest income growth of any region in the U.S. The...
by Tom Morgan | Jan 17, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
So, who do you trust? Do you trust the people involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s death? They tell you he committed suicide. Despite any number of bizarre coincidences that suggest he was done in. So do you trust the officials who tell you otherwise? Do you...
by Tom Morgan | Jan 10, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? “Well, it’s burned to a crisp by global warming.” That seems to be the message for kids in some schools. We know this because too many parents complain. Their children tell them we are all going to die within a...
by Tom Morgan | Jan 3, 2020 | Newspaper Columns
The end is nigh. Whatever that means. We have copped it. We are screwed. An eminent scientist has written a book that proclaims “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” He insists that doom lays only a few years ahead. Millions are going to starve to death soon....
