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Tales From the Pre-COVID Subway Days — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 28, 2021 “You can’t get romantic on a subway line…” (“Everybody Wants Some,” Van Halen) Thanks to COVID-19 and its patchwork quilt of (over)responses, so ...

New Research Challenges the Accuracy of the COVID Counts — Mickey Z.

Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 26, 2021 Recently, I outlined several valid reasons to question the methods by which Covid cases and deaths have been counted. For that, ...

#Woke Activists (sic) Show Their True Colors Again — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 24, 2021 So-called progressives and radicals in May 2020: Let’s bully people into deadly lockdowns while rioting and looting as a form of #woke “social justice.” So-c ...

Let There Be Light (Pollution) — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 21, 2021 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light/And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness” (Gen ...

The Day I Won the Lottery — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 19, 2021 In my neighborhood (and perhaps all across the Land of Opportunity™), playing the lottery is not just state-sponsored gambling and a cleverly disguised tax o ...

Wanna lose your mind? The sea squirts have it all figured out — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 17, 2021 “These big brains are more burden than bargain.” (Kurt Vonnegut) In your life, you may face no greater nemesis than your own mind. The tradeoffs for these la ...

Ranting about lockdown casualties, participation trophies, and more — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 13, 2021 While walking home from Astoria Park the other day, I passed Riccardo’s By the Bridge. (FYI: Nobody in Astoria ever called it anything other than “Riccardo’s ...

From BLM to Gun Control: What Do You Believe (and why)? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 10, 2021 “The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.” (Proverbs 14:15) Have you ever wondered why you believe what you believe? We are ...

“I got action!” (a few things I learned on the streets about manhood and women) — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 6, 2021 Since it’s become both hip and profitable, the umbrella name of “Astoria” is now used to cover a lot of real estate. When I was younger, the speci ...

Birds vs. Tweets: Which Sounds Are You Tuned Into? — Mickey Z.

European Starlings (Photo: Rachel Wood/Great Backyard Bird Count) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 3, 2021 While walking in my neighborhood the other day, I heard a beautiful and astonishingly comple ...

That Time I Almost Accidentally Joined the NYPD — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 29, 2021 In my youth, it was very common for the guys I hung around with to seek out city jobs: police, fire department, sanitation, etc. Steady pay, go ...