November 9, 2021

Tell me again why I should vote Republican

So it was a mini-red sweep in an off-year election.  As a result of this rather small sampling of the national electorate, all the usual Republican establishment political operatives were in full celebration mode, and the conservative pundi...

September 16, 2021

COVID illogic at the Met

This weekend, we watched a 9/11 memorial broadcast of Verdi's Requiem on PBS.  Maybe some of you also saw it.  It was quite an excellent and moving rendition of this classic, performed by the New York Metropolitan Or...