By Bob Gaydos
“One drink won’t hurt you” is a dangerously ill-informed reply. The same goes for, “A few butter cookies won’t hurt. C’mon, it’s Christmas.” Or, “Get the dress, Put it on your credit card. You’ll feel better.” Not really.

By Bob Gaydos
What is it with Americans — especially a lot of Republicans — who won’t wear a mask? It’s the easiest and best way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, along with proper social distancing. If everybody does it, fewer people get it, fewer people die, the sooner we can go back to work and we don’t have to wear masks. That’s not even new math. It’s just common sense and decency.

By Bob Gaydos
Maybe there’s a message in the monoliths. Maybe the universe is tired of waiting for us to figure things out. Maybe it would like us to lower the entropy: Stop killing yourselves and your planet, earthlings. We are all in this together. Maybe we need to pay better attention.

By Bob Gaydos
Some news for science-wary Americans: A quack doctor on the Covid task force told Americans, young and old, to gather together for turkey. The CDC said otherwise. Also, Arecibo, NASA’s renowned ear in the sky, went deaf. Now how will we hear ET?

By Bob Gaydos
I do not state this lightly: No president in my lifetime, not even Richard Nixon, has done more to damage the basic foundations of this nation than Donald Trump.

By Bob Gaydos
Republican silence on Trump goes well beyond party loyalty to the realm of blind allegiance to their leader and/or sheer cowardice, neither of which I want in an elected official at any level.

By Bob Gaydos
I was called an old coot recently. I can’t change my age. It’s the old coot label I object to and the assumption that comes with it that this is a person not to be taken seriously because he’s old. He’ll be fine. Help him find his slippers. It’s insulting. Labels are risky business.

By Bob Gaydos
Our education system has a lot of work to do to repair the damage done in recent years. Encouraging reading is a good place to start. Books are available as never before online. And there’s plenty of time to read.

By Bob Gaydos
Everyday life is full of amazing things, if only one looks. Watermelon, the order of numbers, how horses see. Who thought of these things?

By Bob Gaydos
Life is full of unwritten rules. Baseball has a bunch of them. I’m writing some of them down. One of them is, in sports, politics and life, don’t be a sore loser.