‘The world is a stage’, the saying goes. Lately, I’ve been more acutely aware of something that had been prodding at my
Just when you thought the massive, endless distraction/pantomime of Planet Trump couldn’t get any sillier, the President ditches his Secretary of State
This could actually be viewed as a follow-up to the post from a couple of weeks back on the Pentagon‘s ‘Nuclear Posture
The mass shooting in Las Vegas has prompted all the usual responses from all the usual (tedious) voices. From mainstream calls for
It’s fair to say that what unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday is the kind of thing that has been expected for
In a mansion in the fictional Xanadu, a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his deathbed.
I already posted here on the spectacle of Trump’s inauguration: with all of its oddities and questionable symbolism. But I can’t be
I have decided – due to requests from several people – to stop writing negative things about Donald Trump or the Steve Bannon
Torture exists. It goes on in the world. We all know that. 30 years after the UN Convention Against Torture established measures
So Inauguration Day in Washington came across as a decidedly odd, even slightly unsettling, affair: which is perhaps the only fitting end-point