Mind Wanderings
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Too Smart to See It
“The loyalty well held to fools does make / Our faith mere folly.”William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Act 3, Scene 13 by Joe Broadmeadow You know them. I know them. They are not stupid people. They are surgeons and engineers.…
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The Fair Copy
A Short Story by Joe Broadmeadow The first page arrived in October, the way frost arrives—sometime in the dark, by no process he could name. Henry Vane had gone to bed a blocked man. He had been a blocked man…
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Assessing Dr. Fauci’s Pandemic Recommendations: Effectiveness and Estimated Lives Saved or Lost
Joe Broadmeadow Any attempt to attach a single figure of lives saved or lost to Dr. Anthony Fauci runs into a problem before the first number appears. Fauci served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…
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The Fool’s Reckoning
So merrily we scorned the wise, and merrily lay us down,and death, that had no need to lie, did take us for his own. Still trying to wrap my head around the unrelenting idiocy and farsical contentions about Dr. Fauci…
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The Cartographer of Small Distances
The morning Vera Ostrowski mapped her kitchen, she used a ruler, a legal pad, and forty years of accumulated silence. She had been a surveyor for the county until her hands developed the tremor — not a violent thing, just…
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The Germ of Annihilation
On a Universe That Needs No Maker by Joe Broadmeadow We remember Edgar Allen Poe for the tell-tale heart and the raven at the chamber door, not for cosmology. Yet in 1848, a year before his death, he published a…
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Rhode Island Deserves a Way Out: Ken Block for Governor
By Joe Broadmeadow For more than a generation, the single party governing Rhode Island is so well entrenched that the machinery of state has come to serve itself rather than the people who pay for it. In 2026, voters have…
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The Enduring Advantages: How White Males Have Benefited from the Systemic Oppression of Minorities and Women
An Analysis of Structural Inequality in Western Civilization The history of Western civilization, and much of the modern global order, cannot be told without confronting a central and uncomfortable reality. White men have accumulated disproportionate economic, political, and social advantages…
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Critique of a False Christian Meme
This meme, shared by those who claim Christ as a mascot more than a sincere understanding of the faith, is not an expression of Christian doctrine; it is an exercise in fear, caricature, and political demonization. It bears no…
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Threescore and Ten
Author’s note: In keeping with my plan to check out on my birthday for the sake of balance, I have survived another and look forward to, at a minimum, 364 more days on this planet. This one, for some reason,…