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Cabin Fever 2019: Bits & Pieces (a)

On Groundhog Day 2019, February 2 as always, Staten Island Chuck, our local expert, unexpectedly and coincidentally achieved consensus with his elder, Punxsutawney Phil, predicting an early spring. And we did get a record high of 78F on February 21.

But winter won’t just throw in the towel around these parts, where we’ve had snow, […]

Kremlingate: The Visuals (3)

The responses to what many — including a steadily increasing number of highly respected mainstream figures — have come to view as Donald Trump’s treason in Helsinki has become savage, and that applies not just to written and spoken evaluations but to visual ones as well. I have never seen anything remotely resembling this level of visual critique of a sitting president in the mainstream media. […]

Election 2016: Image World (2)

I have come to think of Donald Trump not only as exemplifying the Bad Clown but as embodying that nightmare’s apotheosis; he has turned himself into the Republic Party’s version of Steven King’s Pennywise. Indeed, these early days of the campaign resemble nothing so much as a remake of IT, with the rest of the pack banding together as The Losers Club, […]