About my “early to bed, early to rise” pledge in the April 7  issue… 

“Try this: Waste your most productive time during the day on TikTok, etc., and then try to be your most productive from 11:00 pm until 2:00 am. I expect it won’t be long before you’re going to bed early.” – JJ

My Response: I appreciate the suggestion… and that is essentially what I’ve been doing. My social media addiction of choice is YouTube, which my limbic/reptilian brain absorbs like a needed nutrient. I haven’t lost faith. So long as I continue getting up at 6:00 or 6:15, there is hope my thinking brain will have its voice heard!

From DG: “An aside to your USAID article in the April 22     issue” 

“Not only is there a question about how efficient USAID was, there have to be questions about where it was going.

“Until it was stopped, I didn’t realise that a recipient was a UK ‘charity’ called Stonewall. Why would a UK charity need funding from the US? It’s not as if Stonewall helps poor/ill people. They are a very militant group that drives a pro-transgender, anti-anything-else ideology, they have managed to get a big foothold in defining how UK government and government-funded organizations run their recruitment, etc. I believe they are really dangerous.

“Not the sort of organisation that can get funding from individual contributions. I had never thought about where they got their money, but Trump has done us a big favour cutting funding to USAID. In the current woke climate, not something many people will say, but it’s true.”