The number of days it took the United States to add one million cases of Covid-19 to its total. 99 for the first million, 43 for the second, 28 for the third, 14 days for the fourth million, the fruits of heedlessly 're-opening'.
He stared at the numbers. 99-43-28-14. Not a football play. Not the combination to a safe. It was the exponential, viral spread of the disease. He understood that they could reasonably expect the next million cases to accrue in a week.
by Monkey's Dad July 22, 2020
An aspiration, a vision, a concept of betterment - the thing we cannot live without, the most essential element in the human spirit.
As 2020 ended, as 2021 shone with promise, there was reason for hope and much to hope for. Regained dignity for America, a life where everyone could once again move freely, could smile and touch, could breathe together without fear.
by Monkey's Dad January 01, 2021
As 2020 ended, as 2021 shone with promise, there was so much to hope for. Regained dignity for America, a life where everyone could once again move freely, could smile and touch, could breathe without fear.
by Monkey's Dad December 31, 2020
A self-consciously hyper-feminized young woman
"The Girlie Bird catches the worm" muttered Tiff to herself, as she put the final touches on her makeup, earrings, hair, stilettos, cleavage and hemline, before heading to the bar.
by Monkey's Dad November 30, 2019
In the COVID-19, stay-at-home time-sense, any given saturmontuesfrithurswedsunday might as well be any other.
by Monkey's Dad April 28, 2020
An experience of life without time. The absence of a temporal dimension. An extension of simultemporal experience, in which past, present and future are equidistant and simultaneous.
Having grown accustomed to simultemporal experience - living time all at once, rather than sequentially - he was increasingly forced to acknowledge states which were vaccutemporal, wherein the sense of time in any form dissolved.
by Monkey's Dad August 07, 2021
By late August, as America geared up for voting-by-mail in the November presidential election, countless mail sorting machines had been not only removed from Post Offices across the country, they had been destroyed.
by Monkey's Dad August 19, 2020