Of course he didn’t. But that’s something like the argument they’re using for El Paso and Trump. [NOTE: If you don’t know what I’m referring to, it’s this: Officers Steven Spiro and Peter Cullen were the first policemen to arrive … Continue reading →
Don’t underestimate how emotionally difficult it is. I know precisely what “Jan in MN” is talking about here: Self-image shouldn’t be underestimated as a reason to close one’s mind to facts. I remember, in my change process, how frightening it … Continue reading →
Broadway giant Harold Prince has died: It is impossible to speak of the American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century without invoking Prince’s name. He is associated in some crucial way with a majority of the … Continue reading →
…then you’re in a heap of trouble. How can a problem be solved if it can’t even be named, or described, or discussed? This isn’t about Trump and Baltimore’s rats, although that’s one of many recent incidents that sparked the … Continue reading →
…that the Chinese are really really really good at this sort of thing? I can’t say I like it better than the original version, but I’m certainly in awe of it:
Continue reading →Just go to a site like Drudge today and you’ll see the furor in the list of headlines, which I reproduce here minus the links: Get out of USA, Trump tells congresswomen! Cortez fires back: We don’t fear you! President … Continue reading →
He prayed for the moon to give him light He had many a mile to go that night Before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o, Many a mile to go that night Before he reached the town. Or to be … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a revised version of a previous post.] Some time ago I was taking a walk, listening on my iPod to some ballet music, and I suddenly wondered—for no particular reason—whether the Eliot Feld ballet “Intermezzo” might have … Continue reading →
Yesterday commenter “huxley” wrote: I just discovered there’s a new ultra-SJW-intersectional, black, female SF writer, N.K. Jemisin who has won three Hugos and a Nebula since 2016. That’s a very big deal. It puts her into grandmaster level with the … Continue reading →
I often read about something that makes me think of Shakespeare’s line from Hamlet: A phrase used by the title character in the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Hamlet suggests that human knowledge is limited: There are more things in … Continue reading →
…visiting friends. I also had a yen to see sunset over Lake Champlain, and just to get away and do something a bit different. I had a good meal. The weather was fabulous. I saw a fascinating exhibit of the … Continue reading →
Franco Zeffirelli died Saturday at the venerable age of 96. But to me, he was and always will be the director of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” a movie that breathed extraordinary life into Shakespeare. The sweep, color, costumes, … Continue reading →