Author: Tim Constant

Illustration: Serge Seidlitz/The Observe It will be interesting to read the plethora of books that will be written in the future about the Covid pandemic and our response to it. Hopefully level heads will prevail and we will learn how we royally turned the Philips head clockwise in the canine. One area I believe will … Continue reading A Boring One on PCR Testing →

I was remarking to my wife the other day that if I have someone tell me I need to follow certain guidelines “for my own safety”, and those guidelines are not having to do with disarming plastic explosives, hand-feeding lions, or snow crab fishing in the North Atlantic in January, I am going to spit. … Continue reading The Danger of Safety →

At the time of this writing, about one half of all US citizens are fully vaccinated from the nefarious covid 19 virus. Yeah! Huzzah! And hearty congratulations all around. Those good with fractions will have noticed this leaves the other half unvaccinated. This half is made up of younger Americans whose turn to be vaccinated had … Continue reading The Justified Hesitant →

Disagreements which hinge on semantic differences are frustrating. We have all been in those discussions where both parties can't seem to figure out where they are missing each other. If two men throw down because one thinks the Sox are going to clinch the pennant, and the other thinks it is a load of hogwash, … Continue reading Chicken with Condoms →

I was having a conversation with a meteorologist friend the other night, jabbering about the complexities of the sun-cycles. I will spare you the details - this time. But we both were caught up in wonder of cycles and epicycles, undulating magnetic fields, and solar sneezes knocking out power to the eastern seaboard, all while … Continue reading Wonder Rot →

I have to admit, as a man, an introvert, a Calvinist, and one whose emotional shadow doesn't seem to match my shape, the idea of worship makes my nostrils squinch. It doesn't really fit into any category I can dissect or observe from a distance. You don't know what it's like to drive that car … Continue reading Destination of Worship →

Just so you know, I am setting you up for disappointment. I will present questions here which I will not answer, and indeed cannot answer. But I always thought an unanswered question left to hang there in the uncomfortable silence does more to erode presuppositions than any packaged answer can anyhow. So there is my … Continue reading Economics of One Little Life →

I did a stint in the emergency department at Cedar Sinai hospital in LA a few years back. During the training week we had a number of speakers address different topics such as how to deal with the press, nursing unions or various parties known for wanton litigiousness. One woman spoke about how to treat … Continue reading A Thought on Loving Neighbors →

I had been hesitant to write anything about masks for some time now, figuring that horse corpse had been sufficiently beaten. But when I saw the governor of Oregon is now pushing for a permanent mask mandate, I thought I might give that horse a kick or two more to the ribs. Bad ideas spread … Continue reading One More Kick To The Horse Corpse →

Photo by srich111 The title says most of what I mean to get across. But let me give you a backstory of the limb, to whom it was once attached, how it became detached, and then I will have some spiritual yummies to share.  At no set intervals I can figure, a train runs through … Continue reading On the Unique Sensation of Accidentally Handling a Severed Limb →