SET AND COSTUME DESIGN FOR OPERA
“LEAPS OF IMAGINATION” IS THE APT TITLE for Anthony Freud’s article in Opera with Opera News, July 2026. It follows up on his “Illuminating the Stage,” February 2026, tidbits of … Continue reading
ADVANTAGES OF THE PRINCIPLED PUBLIC SPHERE PART 2
IN PART 1, ALEX ROSS’S “Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age,” The New Yorker, June 22, 2026, introduced us to the philosophical concept of the Principled Public Sphere. … Continue reading
THE ADVANTAGES OF A PRINCIPLED PUBLIC SPHERE PART 1
FROM TIME TO TIME, MY KANTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL LEANINGS COME TO MIND. This time around, curiously, they arise from words of Alex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker, who evidently … Continue reading
JD’S BS
MANY OF US REMEMBER NIXON. He was a foul-mouthed conniving corrupt president driven to resignation by a sure-thing threat of impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate. We remember … Continue reading
MEDICAL RESEARCH UNDER ATTACK PART 2
IN PART 1, RNA SPECIALIST DR. JEFF COLLER WARNED OF FEDERAL CUTBACKS in medical research in his Guest Essay in The New York Times. Today in Part 2, he cites … Continue reading
MEDICAL RESEARCH UNDER ATTACK PART 1
WITH ADDLED GUIDANCE FROM THE LIKES OF RFK JR. AND TRUMP, it’s no surprise that medical research is under attack. How many measles deaths must we experience? What about our … Continue reading
I LOVE SATIRE!
DANA MILBANK CONTRIBUTES A WONDERFUL BIT OF SATIRE to NOTUS “Perspectives,” June 23, 2026. I encourage you to read it in totality. Just for fun (and as I love satire!), … Continue reading
MOTHER NATURE GIVES THE GREEN FINGER TO TRUMP’S “AMERICAN FLAG BLUE” PART 2
THIS ALL STARTED WITH TRUMP WANTING TO IMPROVE the National Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. (He’s not the first who’s tried: See “Trump Falsely Claims Obama and Biden Spent Hundreds … Continue reading
MOTHER NATURE GIVES THE GREEN FINGER TO TRUMP’S “AMERICAN FLAG BLUE” PART 1
IN PARTS 1 AND 2 TODAY AND TOMORROW, here’s proof positive that Mother Nature knows more than Donald J. Trump. (And who’s surprised?) The Reflecting Tool Debacle. Maxine Joselow describes … Continue reading
TALES OF A LADY’S HAT AND ANOTHER LADY’S HANDWRITING
A RECENT BIT OF SATIRE FROM ANDY BOROWITZ REMINDS ME OF A JOKE from more than five decades ago. Background. This brouhaha erupted several days ago when Neil Vigdor reported, … Continue reading
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