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On witches, Reds and Spacey
Read more: On witches, Reds and SpaceyHarvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey: separate disgraces motivated by similar zeal. Incidents of mass hysteria figure prominently in America’s young and impetuous history. In the early colonial era, it tried and executed women as witches with little to go on but rumors of seemingly unholy conduct. Centuries later, millions watched…
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Typhoid Rome
Read more: Typhoid RomeEuropean cities, including London, Paris, and Madrid, have all been hit with terrorist violence since 2001. Not Rome. Since 2001, European cities have endured all manner of terrorist attacks, including explosions in buses and commuter trains, gangland-style shootings, random knifings, and now, as would-be assassins find weapons increasingly harder to…
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Whatever the hurt
Read more: Whatever the hurtSome Rome pipes haven’t been touched in decades. Cut into a Rome water pipe and you know immediately why the city’s showers are chronically impotent. Layers of brackish yellow calcium constrict their innards. And since calcium is plentiful in the local water supply, cowering drizzles are accepted as the norm.…
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Harvey Trump
Read more: Harvey TrumpDonald Trump in 2005: “…When you’re a star, they [women] let you do it. You can do anything…” Transference is often defined as an unconscious shift of feelings from one person to another. A father’s mistreatment of a daughter can trigger the daughter’s resentment toward a lover if the lover…
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Last sighted
Read more: Last sightedDetail from a painting by Max Beckmann. Don’t miss it. Don’t be late. Be prepared. Be prompt. Honor your pledges. The mantras of my 20th0-century youth later came as work orders fixated on more or the same. Make sense. Make deadline. Support your assertions. The burdens of responsibility were all…
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The storms within
Read more: The storms withinPick your storm, outside or in. Winged insects were my staples. To have and to hold and to break: flies, butterflies, beetles, and on occasion even dragonflies. These were our American garden’s resident insects and I hunted them ruthlessly. I tore wings from flies, crippled colored abdomens, took apart the…
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