by Barbara Chiarello | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m confused. During his 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump said Mexico was sending us murderers, rapists and drug dealers. To keep them out, he promised to build a wall that Mexico would pay for. Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star on March 6, 2021, to...
by Barbara Chiarello | Dec 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
If they gave an Academy Award for Best Religious Imposter, Greg Abbott would surely run away with the prize Though the Sermon on the Mount blesses the merciful, Texas’ Republican governor continues to treat migrants harshly. “Tiffany Burrow, who directs operations at...
by Barbara Chiarello | May 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
He’s our bad boy. You know, the one from high school who appealed to our rebellious side. The bad boy always disobeyed the rules and got away unscathed; we lived vicariously through him. Trump embodies James Dean’s portrayal of Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause....
by Barbara Chiarello | Jan 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Angel of Death is passing over the land. But instead of sparing those who had marked their doors with lamb’s blood, as in the Passover story, this angel mostly spares those who have been vaccinated and boosted. Politicians like Sarah Palin don’t get it....
by Barbara Chiarello | Aug 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Only in retrospect can I see that I put aside what I had always loved to help my mother and, by extension, all patients who had been objectified by their doctors. Math and science had always come easy. As a girl wunderkind in these fields, I enjoyed the attention of...
by Barbara Chiarello | Jan 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Back in 1966, when I was a pre-med major at Brooklyn College, I was the victim of one of those freak accidents that occur in organic chemistry labs. As I was inserting a glass rod into a rubber stopper, the rod broke and the needlelike tip of one part of the fragment...
