A THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS PART 1
CHRIS MURPHY IS A U.S. SENATOR, a Democrat representing the people of Connecticut. On April 19, 2025, he sent an email to me—and to plenty of others, I’m sure—advising that … Continue reading
SCIENCE HAPPENS PART 2
YESTERDAY WE DISCUSSED SCIENCE as it navigates itself through the pages of AAAS Science magazine; this, despite a Trump administration seemingly bent on eschewing science at every opportunity. Today in … Continue reading
SCIENCE HAPPENS PART 1
DESPITE THE QUEENS FELON CARING NOTHING—and contributing less than a plugged nickel—about science, it happens anyway. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits gleaned from my … Continue reading
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
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