In Medicine We Trust? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 14, 2021 Watching the once-skeptical Left become cheerleaders for Big Pharma is reminding me of two anecdotes from the mid-2000s. The first took place when my wife a ...

America the Temporary — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 11, 2021 America is a nation built upon myth. If you don't believe me, consider the slave-owning Florentine merchant-adventurer after whom this country was named. Am ...

Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.

(Media Burn) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 9, 2021 I’ve been interviewed dozens and dozens of times. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the e ...

“There are valises everywhere!” (my only Hamptons vacation) — Mickey Z.

Greetings From The Hamptons Beach is a piece of digital artwork by Flo Karp Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 7, 2021 I’ve visited the notorious Hamptons a couple of times as a day trip. But only onc ...

Government scare tactics, media hype, and creepy men (in 1942!) — Mickey Z.

“WARNING! Our Homes Are in Danger Now!,” produced by the General Motors Corporation, 1942 Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 31, 2021 Have you ever heard of the Phantom Barber of Pascagoula? His story ...

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 ...

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 ...