What Keith Haring taught us about life, loss, and death — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 30, 2021 Recently, when I asked my Facebook friends for article suggestions, two requests were “life, death, and aging” and “the illusion of control.” I let those we ...

What’s missing from the debate about guns? — Mickey Z.

Still photo of Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (1971) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 28, 2021 I haven’t written much about guns in my life so I thought it was time to do what I do best: Add in some ...

Biden, Brain Damage...and Reagan’s Example? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 23, 2021 “One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace, one nevertheless tells the truth.” (Nietzsche) There has been plenty of talk lately about th ...

Why I’ve Spent Nearly 5 Years Helping Homeless Women in NYC — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 21, 2021 In mid-June, I made a post on Facebook — asking for article suggestions. A handful of the replies related to why I started Helping Homeless Women - NYC, my ...

Will you volunteer to join the Internet of Bodies? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 18, 2021 It was at my first-ever gym job. The clientele was obscenely wealthy yet they yearned for what we trainers had: muscular physiques. One of my co-workers, Wa ...

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 ...

Mask Hysteria in Vaccination Nation — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 3, 2021 Planet Fitness is now mask-optional. I can blissfully work out each morning with dozens of other people — all of us sweating and breathing heavily — many wit ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...