Thoughts and Prayers

So. Another day, another few mass shootings, one of them dreadful enough to occupy the national media for a day or two. Gayle King on CBS told me how many mass shootings have taken place this month — and she emphasized she was talking about March, not the entirety of three-month-long 2023 — and it […]

The Insidious Rise of General Malaise

I ran into Jan the other day, as I was coming out of and she was going into a store. Jan and I go back millenia, but we must rotate in different orbits, because our paths cross infrequently — months, sometimes years can go by before we run across one another. So of course we […]