At the time of this writing, the coronavirus is still wrecking havoc on U.S. soil and the country appears to have resigned itself to waiting for a messianic vaccine. There has been significant progress recently in terms of inoculation development — although when it comes to pharmaceuticals, standard procedure demands certain testing phases be respected…

All lives matter. That is a phrase steeped in banality and says so much while essentially saying nothing at all. It’s genius, frankly. I imagine a politician pacing back and forth in a dark room while a think-tank struggles to come up with a bipartisan phrase that indicates that the legislator is ‘pro-universal truth’: Kittens…