SEND TRUMP TO THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE
IF A MIDDLE-SCHOOLER SPOKE, WROTE, OR TEXTED in the manner of President Trump, the student would be promptly sent to the principal’s office for a reprimand. If any MAGA supporters … Continue reading
TRUMP VERSUS KNOWLEDGE
“IPSA SCIENTIA POTENTIA EST” (“KNOWLEDGE ITSELF IS POWER”) wrote English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon in Meditationes Sacrea, (Sacred Meditations), 1597. English philosopher Thomas Hobbes as a young man was a … Continue reading
HEARING OURSELVES IN OPERA PART 2
SIMON BANKS’ OPERA: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN WORLD encouraged thoughts about the operas of John Adams. Today in Part 2 we pick up with my personal view about controversy … Continue reading
HEARING OURSELVES IN OPERA PART 1
THIS TOPIC PARAPHRASES THE CONCLUDING CHAPTER TITLE of Simon Banks’ book Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World. Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World, by Simon Banks, Troubador Publishing, … Continue reading
TRUMP CHAOS PART 2
TALES OF TRUMP CHAOS HAVE APPEARED in news sources around the world. Here in Part 2 we continue with a Midshippie Reading List and the idealogical matter of a Queens … Continue reading
TRUMP CHAOS PART 1
OUR VERY STABLE GENIUS reaches new levels of insane retribution seemingly each day. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits gleaned from timely news sources. The … Continue reading
OTHELLOS AND IAGOS WE’VE LOVED AND HATED PART 2
YESTERDAY, BEN BRANTLEY’S PIECE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES got us started in Othellos and Iagos through time. Here in Part 2 we pick up with a complex relationship of … Continue reading
OTHELLOS AND IAGOS WE’VE LOVED AND HATED PART 1
CULTURAL NAIF I’VE ALWAYS BEEN (Moby-Dick is about this big whale), Shakespeare’s Othello is a good-guy Moor, albeit prone to jealousy and homocide; Iago is a bad-guy all-around-conniving ensign. Imagine … Continue reading
TRUMPIAN INANITIES
FOR A “VERY STABLE GENIUS,” OUR QUEENS FELON seems to be coming up with some lamebrain actions. Here are several. Image by abc7.com The Tariffs. Despite many learned economists professing … Continue reading
SKEPTICAL OF SUPERMAN??
HA! THIS BEGAN WITH A MOMENTARY SKEPTICISM of the Man of Steel, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single … Continue reading
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