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Seems that Paul Ryan brought some of his of his trademark charts and graphs to his detente meeting with Trump–you know, one wave of those charts and graph and the “mainstream” “news” media instantly swoon into submission. I wonder if … Continue reading →

At the fabulous 125th anniversary gala last night it became evident that someone has turned up the forced air in the auditorium, quite probably as part of the recently-completed overhaul of the backstage facilities.  There is now an audible white … Continue reading →

Among other treasures too numerous to name (including Hoppers painted in North Truro and a Gutenberg Bible) is the coin collection featuring one bearing the aviary likenesses of the Capitoline Triad — the holy trinity of the Romans, consisting of … Continue reading →

That view of Cape Cod bay was mine every August from 1970-1973. . .

Late afternoon light. Other magical coastal destinations:  Mystic Seaport; Eugene O’Neill “Monte Cristo Cottage” in New London, CT; The Breakers in Newport, RI; the Yale Art Gallery and the Yale Rep, where Dianne Weist is featured in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy … Continue reading →

Another great place to be in springtime!

Just a few miles southeast from where the ancestors — John Alden, Priscilla Mullens, and possibly Samuel Fuller (the only Mayflower passenger known to have owned a slave, the Native American “Joel”) — touched down after an uneventful crossing from … Continue reading →

Not in the book, but I love Wilde’s recollection of Nicholas Magallanes in Serenade: When he appeared in the final movement together with Waltz ballerina and Dark Angel, “it was like they were walking across the sky.”

William Rivers Pitt, writing superbly as usual for Truth Out, reminded us eighteen-months ago that President Obama’s former top counterterrorism adviser, Daniel Benjamin “describes the ramped-up depiction of the alleged ISIS threat as a ‘farce’ peddled by ‘members of the … Continue reading →

What’s being done in our name, with our money, and at the cost of our international reputation and security: Nicholas JS Davies at Common Dreams reports on our escalating air strikes in Syria and Iraq and the escalating civilian casualties.