Until this week, I’ve managed to avoid the pandemic trend towards DIY home repair. This is not for lack of projects. If I simply look up from my laptop screen, I’m confronted with absent window screens, a security door that can only be locked and unlocked with extraordinary patience and dedication; questionable grout; cracked, damp […]
A repulsive, wicked insect has taken up residence on my front porch. I don’t have any special dislike for insects, but this one has a quarter-inch long stinger, and looks like one of those wasps you see at Yuma Proving Ground that lay their eggs inside of tarantulas to provide their young with a convenient […]
Sometimes I wonder why I read The Guardian. I already subscribe to the Washington Post and New York Times. It’s obscurely comforting to see that Great Britain’s Prime Minister is a dishonest buffoon, true, and to watch old-school British politicians spank him during the Prime Minister’s Questions. But is that really necessary to my happiness? […]
