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You’re In the Mood for a Dance
I woke up this morning in Türkiye with two ideas that are going to make someone rich. That person will not be I, he said grammatically, as my sole interest is in a form of happiness on which money has no effect. I revel in the beauty of clo...
An Election Night Carol
It is ten minutes past three in the morning in the presidential bedroom master bedroom suite on the second floor of the White House, in which all American presidents since Ford have slept, President Trump is pacing, running one hand through...
Cincinnati: A Meditation on Memory
I wasn’t greeted warmly in Cincinnati, but of course I have never been there, or anywhere in Ohio. That said, in my mid-teens, I saw the Cincinnati Reds play the Dodgers, and was struck by the vivid greenness of the outfield grass and the s...
A Tube of You
This here’s a song I wrote in 2025 under trying cirumstances. Last weekend I invited a passel of neighbours (we live in SW London, where it’s spelt (!) that way) to come over for weiners and beer. Several brought their musical instruments a...
Thomas Jefferson: High On His Own Supply?
Baloney, or, if you insist, bullshit.
What one is morally compelled to do is work toward unjust laws being rescinded.
Two friends of mine used to be animal rights extremists, by which I mean they felt called upon to break into places of...
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