Well, the Pres-elect seems to be taking a cue from my last blog post (which I'm sure he hasn't read). Today in a NY Times interview, he disavowed and condemned the alt-right. Still not enough, but it's a start. He also seemed to back away from some of his campaign positions, such as prosecuting Hillary and tightening up the libel laws (whatever that means). And he seems more receptive to tackling global warming. As some of us suspected, maybe his campaign promises weren't all reflective of any principles he holds, but were just positions he knew his supporters wanted to hear. Is a bait and switch in process? If so, I don't want to discourage it. Stay tuned, folks.
During my junior year in high school, I sat in the back of our auditorium listening to our drama teacher, Ruth Bair, attempt to persuade a large group of students to try out for the school play. With me, at least, she was successful. I auditioned for a part in Archibald MacLeish's "JB," a modern day drama based on the Book of Job. All I garnered that time was a walk-on part; better roles awaited me my senior year. But Mrs. Bair's little speech was enough to get me in the game. And the experience of performing in the school plays was the highlight of my high school years. What she said that I remember is this: "If you don't extend yourself, you haven't lived." Some memory of biology class made me think that this was both literally and figuratively true, though I'm not sure about the literal part, and it's only the figurative that matters to me. But through the years and decades that followed, whenever I was unsure about participatin
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