Found a wonderful local artist whose works adorn a new coffee shop. I picked out a few of her postcards to take with me. Like art often does, her work…

Google says a Spanish fellow “discovered” America. Native Indians say they were there first. Nothing but quarreling ever since. Tony and Hunter discovered that you really can fool most of…

“Mike’s Million Dollar Popsicle Diet!” Made up of coffee and croissant for breakfast, popsicles for dinner (while watching Jack Bauer dispatch bad guys on Netflix). Should I do an infomercial?…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. The morning news has “Too Big for Their Britches” Tech gleefully bullying more people who dare to disagree with Joe Biden’s flip-flopping orders on masks and…

Last dash of the summer. Off by train to nearby Kaunas to visit Holocaust site and others. Friend and translator Firuza Burkitbayeva guides the way so that I don’t get…

Today, I listened to powerful people, who should know better, promote “disrupt the whiteness” as a goal in government-run schools. No wonder the President describes “civil war” conditions. It no…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. I was startled and surprised that The Washington Post published the following opinion piece by Henry Olsen. The writer is a Washington Post columnist and a…

At the Vilnius train station awaiting my four-hour ride home. Classic Lithuanian heart-attack breakfast on the go—a hotdog in a sweet roll, loaded with fat. Will chase it with an…

Confession:Made it to Frankfurt on the overnight flight from Chicago. Long walks and longer lines. I stepped out of one line at EU Immigration to check on which line was…

When I visited America this time after months abroad, things had changed noticeably. The Culture Wars have festered. It grows more fierce by the day and no one is immune.…

Dear Caleb (Grandson),Admiral Howell of the Black Pearl ship and Pirate Commander Shawn Patrick say they will take you to sail the seven seas when you are ready. Aaargh!!!!😎My adventures…

With my brothers, Jay (top right) and Shawn (top left), in Oregon.We tried applying for jobs today at the Facebook complex in Prineville, but surprisingly, they weren’t interested. Can’t imagine…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. Be wary in your postings with “social media” organizations.As a well-traveled journalist, I am keenly aware of the genuine threats to basic human freedoms when powerful…

Mark Zuckerberg’s wild censorship and Anthony Fauci’s self-serving lies, misdirection, and coverups have damaged the innocent worldwide. I hope Americans act to hold them accountable so such dangerous nonsense is…

Well, well, well… “Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we start to deceive.” -Walter Scott, in his poem, “Marion”.

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. False prophets are a dime a dozen. Temperamentally, I am a Puddleglum —that is, someone who is prone to believe that we might all end up…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. In this post-Covid “hang-over” period, companies are leaking productivity badly. The most immediate choices that leaders can make to boost productivity is to reset how we…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. After months of solitary confinement, I finally escaped. Along with teaching journalism in Lithuania, I wrote about media censorship and I posted Covid-19 research in partnership…

Michael Patrick, Ph.D. In keeping with powerful leaders who prefer one-party rule, the opposition is smeared and silenced in media as extremists, followers arrested for protests, their speech is banned…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. Bù yí nuò sī dí yà sīIn other words, Good morning! No surprise, China is holding the lead in the world’s great digital currency races. Next…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. There’s something fundamentally wrong with this story about Facebook and Trump, linked below. Facebook evidently believes that it is a big-fanny privilege to be part of…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. Armed robber and convicted felon violates parole and pulls gun, shot dead. Reaction? Minneapolis residents muster to take it out on local businesses, looting and burning.…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. Some people are struggling to have children and cannot. Others imagine that they are doing themselves a favor by skipping children. If the article linked below…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. When Dr. Anthony Fauci and his pals were spending millions of your tax dollars for their batty viral research in Wuhan, China, they were not alone.…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. A lesson that I took away from months of forced solitary confinement is that I talk too much. I’ve learned that all those spoken words were…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. “I tell you what, look at her, she looks like she’s 19 years old, sitting there like a little lady with her legs crossed.” President Biden…

This is a story worth following.

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. “Hitler didn’t imagine a world of gas chambers and ovens; he imagined a world after the gas chambers and ovens had accomplished their purpose. Stalin didn’t…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. An axiom of journalism? Follow the money. Many years ago in Washington, DC, I did a recurring network investigative segment called “Tax Watch”. We unearthed dubious…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. Those American health officials who left behind fingerprints and spread around millions in taxpayer money in Wuhan, China for dangerous experiments should listen carefully for footsteps…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. Pet Peeve: Journalists and the corporations they work for are proving increasingly illiterate these days.One of the horribly bad habits of today’s partisan journalists is to…

By Michael Patrick, Ph. D. It’s hard to imagine the shambles today in American foreign policy, as we watch Biden’s Justice Department work to kick out a former U.S. Marine…

Foodie Guy FIeri of the TV show, “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives,” helped publicize Bang Bang Burgers, but their proven reputation for the best burger in Charlotte keeps them on top.…

In today’s amusing news, the CDC gets caught fibbing again about the science, the risks, and “need” for masking outdoors. In sum, science said its more like .1 percent and…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. The most expert science journalist on Covid-19 today is Nicholas Wade, formerly of the New York Times. He broke open the Covid Origin story and the…

Now, for news that matters! The new “Loki” series and “Black Widow” both come out on Disney + on July 9th! There’s no truth to the rumor that Biden and…

Hint: The “why” is inevitably other-oriented.

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. Throughout history, when scientists play politics and people die, the cover-ups are never pretty. When only one narrow set of “the facts and science” are permitted…

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. Please pray for my students and their friends from Belarus who are coping with a madman president. Belarus scrambled Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter to force a Ryanair…

Major peeve for years: Passengers who wait until the airplane rows in front of them are completely empty before starting to get their stuff together to deplane. 🛫😱😠😎

By Michael Patrick, Ph.D. Not a sponsored post. Facebook actually brags that they booted millions of American voices from its social media site in this past year. My writing with…

Our “2021 Done with Covid Tour” has ended.We took our life back without asking permission and the memories are extraordinary.Rule 1-Be kind to others.Rule 2-No more fear allowed.Here are a…

Good Morning, Big Pink! Final Day.

Good Morning, Big Pink! Final Day. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19giZt5WU0FBWRf-FG3OsX4pYwn-QPiIf/view?usp=drivesdk

Our latest Done with Covid Tour video May 14th

Tour life is a struggle. Reviving with Saturday Brunch in South Beach!