Unboxing
A short play. Okay. Okay. Let’s see. This side up. Okay. I need, let’s see, a knife. A matt knife. A box cutter. Yes. Okay. There. Open. Open. Wow. Hello! You okay in there? I’m okay. Um. You’re kind of…
The Carney Style
What to make of Carney's first press conference? He comes into the room with a sheaf of paper and proceeds to read. Occasionally he smiles affably at the reporters in the room. Then he looks back at his notes and…
Word spaghetti
I first noticed it about 15 years ago, when we first moved to Hamilton. Someone talking and talking without ever finishing. I said to Judith, "That guy, he can't stop talking." I thought it was just that particular guy. Then…
Kicking it over
The Berlin Wall was torn down in December, 1989. The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991. The USA, apparently, had won the Cold War. Here's the crowd on top of the Berlin Wall in 1989: Many people were…
Trump tariffs
"Trump doesn't know a tariff from a hole in the ground. Everybody knows that." "Trump thinks that a tariff against Chinese imports means that China will have to pay more to send goods to the US. Trump thinks that a…
Tents in the Park
There is a sculpture in the vestibule of the Church of the Badia Fiorentina in Florence. It isn't in the sanctuary where the masterpieces of Renaissance art are hanging. It's out there by itself, up against the wall. A human…
Elon
To understand him you have to go back to those cheap paperbacks with lurid covers we devoured so many years ago in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Not SciFi, (cowboys in spacesuits riding the cosmic range) but SF. Azimov…
Why it happened
Explanations for the Trump catastrophe are sprouting like weeds, all over the internet, in the newspapers I read (Guardian, Times, Washington Post, Hamilton Spectator), on MsNBC, CNN, and random posts on YouTube. I haven't seen anything convincing. And I think…
