Although we have been wrapped up in the history and literature of Archaic Greece, we should not entirely neglect more recent phases of our history and civilization. Once or twice a year, I return to the works of Walter Scott, on whom I have, over the years, written one or two essays and given several lectures.
In the 1956 American musical comedy, The Girl Can’t Help It, the music promoter played by Tom Ewell gets the shock of a lifetime when the girl of the title, Jayne Mansfield, sings beautifully in the closing scene of the film.
As an opponent of every war the USA has provoked and entered since the justifiable Mexican War, I am less than delighted with the acceleration of US aggression against Iran.
What President Trump needs to do is get on the Hot Line with President Putin and President Xi and solve the Israel-Iran War crisis. Because it’s really the U.S.-Israel-NATO vs. Iran-Russia-China War.
I hope President Trump doesn’t drag us into the Israel-Iran War. Where’s the Declaration of War by Congress, as mandated by the Constitution? But who follows that defunct document?
Last week I spent an evening with an abstemious friend, and of course this was hard on the nerves. I made short shrift of a bottle of cognac by the time the night was over.
To me it seemed painfully obvious that Trump and Netanyahu had worked out a plan
Slowly is how things happen, especially the things one dislikes.
The third declension and genitive of time
