From the dawn of prehistory, we’ve defied the dark and cold of winter with festivals of light. Before there were rational explanations for the shortening of days, we sang songs, lit fires, ate rich food and drank strong spirits. If the big light in the sky was at a premium, well then we’d fill our […]
FBI backs down … again!
For those of us who’ve puzzled over the FBI’s on and off again engagement with the campaign, it’s okay to heave a sigh of relief. Not because it means her troubles are over, but that there is, for now, no smoking gun. Maybe there never was. Maybe there never will be. For those conservatives who’ve […]
Unsolicited calls … Managed!
An unpolitical unsolicited call rant for the political season: I have no problem hanging up on unsolicited calls. If you’re my friend or colleague whose caller ID I won’t recognize, better let me know I know you in the first two words from your lips or I will disconnect you in mid-sentence. Apologies for […]
Binge-watcher’s anonymous, Take 1
So, what are you binge-watching and why? My guilty pleasure is this series. Despite the facts that: The script calls for some character to USE. DOGTRAINER. VOICE! about once every three minutes to move the plot along. A pro gun-control, immigration-reform Republican president has a gay chief of staff and a black mistress. She’s the […]
Crimes of Identity
I’m imagining how much worse life would have been for my grandparents and mother’s people in the first half of 20th century, if Donald Trump had been around insisting that the Mafia be called Organized Italian Crime and calling for the resignation of a president who wouldn’t use the word “Italian” as the adjective. It […]
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