“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
These three years of Trump have felt like a hideous party from my college days — one of ear-drum cracking bad music, people shouting at one another to be heard, drunks reeling about thinking they are clever, drunks guzzling Boone’s Farm wine of every sickening favor, someone crying quietly in a corner, stoners slumped upon a raggedy couch watching TV and laughing, a lonely assistant professor holding forth on politics […]
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Cape Cod looks like the silhouette of a shoe as long as the shoe belongs to one of Santa’s elves’, although an elf with a sense of humor about his toe cap and well which curve off like a scimitar blade to the north and east. It is only 18,000 years old, a puff of air in geologic time, a creation of the last great ice age and once wholly […]
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After Trump’s inept attempt to extort Ukraine’s help in assisting him to destroy Joe Biden and therefore aid his chances to win the 2020 election, the Democrats have moved on impeachment. Ugly facts about this episode are tumbling out into the public domain every day. Those facts look to grow much, much worse. However, this is no time to […]
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Within the criminal elements of any tyranny, a functionary is secretly taking names, compiling documents, recording stories, preparing “destroying angels” for the right time to release everything to maximum effect, in short, to begin or to accelerate the destruction of that tyranny. Sometimes that functionary is a true hero, a person who sees the wrong and determines to risk everything to make it known. More often, the witness is one […]
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