By: Paul Egan

Paul Egan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:50:00 +0000

The trenchant character of today’s production is deserving of commendation, arresting the listener’s interest from its first minute of report on the present influenza threat to conclusion with consideration of that disease as the subject of fiction, encompassing telling discussion of economics both general and specific, and startling report from the BBC correspondent on the implausibly current effects of artifacts from war long past.
The sedative effect of the aforementioned was much needed by anyone who had heard the hours of ON POINT earlier, what with its interviewees’ zany language including such as, “book walk,” “blend option,” and “vision quest.” After some time I believe I was able to decipher the latter as, “pursuit of knowledge and experience so as to form an outlook on life,” but if these non-locutions constitute the language of those who are judged to have something worthwhile to broadcast and to publish, then it is no wonder that this civilization is in trouble, more so when the second hour offers a fellow telling the world about his fatherhood. Who cares? If one or more of his offspring have in the elapse of half a century from now achieved note as equivalents of Darwin, Freud, or Einstein, then perhaps the “father” would have something of value to say.

By: Mary Mendoza

Mary Mendoza — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:30:41 +0000

With all due respects, but the 1918 pandemic started not in Europe but here in the United States at Fort RIley, Kansas, amongst the very crowded barracks of young soldiers who got sick and weren’t used to such close quarters. It also appeared in Boston. The flu then traveled to Europe with those same soldiers, incubated in the dreadful conditions of the trenches in WWI and came back and by the time it reappeared in the U.S. and spread world wide, It had become something much different and very deadly indeed.

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By: Paul Egan

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