COVID-19 Can Produce Lasting Effects

Last updated on: January 11, 2021 at 11:03 pm By Kermit Zarley

A new study published in the eminent health journal Lancet about COVID-19 reveals that the virus produces more debilitating aftereffects than previously thought. It is a study of 1,733 coronavirus patients discharged from a hospital in Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 is believed to have originated. The study found that more than 3/4s of these patients had at least one COVID symptom six months after they contract the disease. Dr. Michael Peluso, an infectious disease expert at the the University of... Read more

Did Mobster Trump Try to Get Pence Killed?

Last updated on: January 31, 2021 at 12:09 pm By Kermit Zarley

Last Wednesday, thousands of rioters stormed the nation’s Capitol building where all members of Congress, both House and Senate, were gathered under the leadership of Vice President Mike Pence in accordance with the Constitution to certify the Electoral College votes and thereby declare that Democrat and former Vice President Joe Biden won the presidential election weeks earlier to become our next president on January 20th. The rioters were intent on disrupting the legislators from performing this American tradition that represents... Read more

I Feel My Critique of President Donald Trump Has Been Vindicated

Last updated on: January 13, 2021 at 7:50 am By Kermit Zarley

I’ve been an Evangelical Christian all of my adult life. I’ve had my Kermit Zarley Blog for seven years with patheos.com. It hosts the biggest conversation on faith in the world. My blog is a mixed bag, but mostly about issues regarding the Bible. However, since Donald Trump became president, I have increasingly blogged about his performance as president. The reason was that I was alarmed about what he was doing. I had to reconcile this decision to critique Trump... Read more

The PGA of America Pulls the Plug on the Trump Organization

Last updated on: January 10, 2021 at 11:31 pm By Kermit Zarley

In the past three days, I’ve blogged not once but twice about articles calling for the PGA of America to cancel its plan to stage the PGA Championship in 2022 at Donald Trump’s Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he played much golf during his presidency. Thus, PGA of America’s president Jim Richerson announced today, “It’s become clear that conducting the PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster would be detrimental to the PGA of America brand and would... Read more

Harris English Wins Sentry Tournament of Champions

Last updated on: January 10, 2021 at 11:04 pm By Kermit Zarley

Harris English–the PGA Tour pro with the golf swing that makes him look like what the song says, Smooth Operator–won the Sentry Tournament of Champions today in Kapalua, Hawaii after a seven-year drought from the winners circle. He made a six-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole to defeat Mexico’s Joaquin Niemann, who had come from behind with a nine-under par 64 on quite a windy day. It was English’s third PGA Tour win. Ordinarily, English would not have... Read more

Will Capitol Rioters’ Sentences Be Reduced Due to President Trump Inciting Them?

Last updated on: January 10, 2021 at 7:41 pm By Kermit Zarley

The most prominent rioter in telecasts showing the insurrection at the nation’s Capitol last Wednesday was a bare-chested, heavily-tattooed, thirty-three year old guy wearing an animal fur hat with two horns on it and his face totally painted in the patriotic colors of red, white, and blue. His name is Jake Angeli, and he lives in Phoenix, Arizona. I live near Phoenix. Friday, a call went out for Angeli’s arrest. The next day, yesterday, Jake turned himself into the Phoenix... Read more

The Fallacy of Tiger Woods’ Logic: “Respect the Office”

Last updated on: January 9, 2021 at 7:41 pm By Kermit Zarley

In August, 2018, I posted this piece on my blog, “Are Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus Right–‘Respect the Office’?” It’s about Tiger Woods having then been asked by a golf writer about Donald Trump, “what do you say to people who might find it interesting that you have a friendly relationship with him?” It was because Tiger was friends with Trump and played some golf with him even though President Trump was accused of being racist and had been maligned... Read more

The Trump Brand Is Going Down in Flames

Last updated on: January 9, 2021 at 12:20 pm By Kermit Zarley

President Donald Trump has eleven more days until he will be just another U.S. citizen like the rest of us. His actions since the November 3rd presidential election have been devastating to his Trump brand, upon which his Trump Organization depends so much. Most injurious has been his childish refusal to concede defeat in the election, his constant and false allegations that widespread election fraud made Joe Biden the victor, but especially Trump’s inciting mob... Read more

Trump and Golf Today

Last updated on: January 7, 2021 at 11:47 pm By Kermit Zarley

Today, the day after President Donald Trump incited his political supporters to storm the nation’s Capitol building–which they did and is being characterized as an insurrection or coup to disrupt members of Congress from officially recognizing Joe Biden as the duly-elected next president–Trump held a private ceremony awarding three outstanding pro golfers the Presidential Medal of Honor. The golfers were Annika Sorenstam, my friend Gary Player, and deceased Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Sorenstam and Player were present to receive their awards... Read more

Is Trump Making America Great Again?

Last updated on: January 6, 2021 at 6:54 pm By Kermit Zarley

Today was the day that Congress was to certify the presidential election of November 3 Electoral College results, officially making former Vice President Joe Biden the next U.S. president. But President Trump showed up today in Washington for a speech, saying “I’ll never concede” the presidential election to Joe Biden. The nation had been fixated for several days on one state, Georgia, which had a reelection for the state’s two Senate positions scheduled for Tuesday. Plus, the state had just... Read more