Chip Gibbons

The title song for my first album is "Billion Dollar Pill."  It was written during the Great Recession after the housing bubble popped.  I knew that it would only be a matter of time until it would all…

There are going to be a lot of turkeys at this Thanksgiving dinner.

Oklahoma Megachurch Organizes Mass Thanksgiving Meal, Asks Followers to 'Bring a Neighbor'

"Victory Church in Tulsa posted on Facebook that it was hosting a "Friendsgiving" on November…

I uploaded my latest video to YouTube today.  It's not a music video.  It's a very short one-man play about Halloween, democracy, the election of 2020, partisanship, and groupthink.  Please watch it and pass it around.

Six days ago the WHO said that the drug Remdesivir "has little or no effect" on surviving COVID-19.

Today, FDA in the USA approved the drug for treating COVID-19.

It certainly seemed to help President Trump get well quickly when…

Bette Davis has some very interesting things to say about the studio system in this interview on Johnny Carson.  She praises it for young actors as a way to learn the craft while getting a steady paycheck.

When it comes to dealing with COVID-19, we should all be more like Sweden.  They always kept their young kids in school and had limited lockdowns.  They had a large number of deaths in the beginning but now they have…

I always have to be making something so another thing I like to do is make furniture.  I recently built a Mid-century Modern sideboard/buffet from a kit I bought on Overstock.com. 

I did study furniture design and woodworking when…

tA study released this week says that the lockdowns prevented 60 million people in the US from getting COVID-19.

A study by UC Berkeley says that lockdowns may have prevented 500 million COVID-19 cases in six countries: China, United…

The media has done a great job of whipping up fear and hysteria around the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.

The government is throwing billions of dollars into developing a vaccine and there is much discussion among drug…

While this number is certainly smaller than the actual number, it's great to see that over 1.1 million people around the world have recovered from COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus currently sweeping the globe.

Here is today's chart:

President Trump…

The number of people worldwide who have recovered from COVID-19 is now 738,500.  These people now have some natural immunity to coronavirus.  The actual number of people recovered is certainly much higher than that because several recent studies have shown…

With the media largely focused on the number of new COVID-19 cases and then number of deaths, the number of people who have survived doesn't get as much attention.  There are now over 318,000 who have recovered.  That is an…