Voyeurism Isn’t Good for the Soul (or Politics)

The scandal of the week involving Susanna Gibson is an indictment of our politics. Shame on us all for participating in it. HAMLET  Get thee ⟨to⟩ a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves ⟨all;⟩ believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. — William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” Act 3, Scene 1 (1601) Ophelia has given herself to Hamlet. Yet having placed her trust totally in […]

Tucker, Elon Real Winners Of First GOP Debate Night

The true winners of last night’s debate are former prime-time Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk, owner of X – formerly Twitter. If you’ve spent the last 24-48 hours under a rock – here’s what transpired last night. Eight Republican candidates running to be the next President of the United States took the […]

Who Are Those Rich Men North of Richmond?

VCU Wilder puts Youngkin at a more modest 49% approval rating, but that 57% number sure sounds better to the Wall Street Journal. First things are first. I’m almost certain you have heard Try That In a Small Town by Jason Aldean. Good for a week, right? If you want to hear true protest music? Allow […]