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Hilliary is served

The title refers to a political cartoon. I am seeking permission to post the actual cartoon so until then I am limited to giving a link so as not to violate copyright. See it here. We can hope the service depicted in the cartoon becomes another type of service, as suggested in my post title. But I’ll bet she … Read more

Reality bites-updated

This site was not up and running last year as planned, but if it had been, the present presidential sweepstakes would have been handicapped at that time. There would have been a clear prognostication that the reality distortion field bubble around Trump’s poll numbers would burst once phone polling was replaced by actual polling and the vetting process became real and consequential. I would have stated he had a snowball’s chance in hell, and that I had at least equal odds of winning it all…still do.

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The state of British theatre: Alive and well in Parliament, the Theatre of State

[with emendations]

Yesterday in Great Britain there was a three hour production that had elements of an open-mic comedy club and a celebrity roast, but by all accounts, was riveting theatre. The production was not performed at the Royal National Theatre or Covent Garden, but rather “off Broadway”
in a lesser stage down the lobby from the main hall at the House of Commons, Westminster Abbey, London, aka: the British Parliament, starring the Petition Committee. It was on par with any of the British import shows on the tele here in the colonies, made more remarkable due to the over-extended device of sustained tragi-comic soliloquarian*™ monologues of Hamletonian*™ depth and consequence. The subject: Should Donald Trump be allowed to be, or not to be, banned from Britain. That was the question.

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