William Tell

I am reviving the blog and the podcast. I mean to post new blog material every Saturday, and a new podcast the first Tuesday of each month, beginning June 2. There are some serious design issues with the blog, and I'm going to have to hire an expert to fix them, which is going to cost a bundle. There are also issues with the 1,600+ posts I imported from the previous blog. Every one will need to be re-formatted, and the tags dealt with, and the links edited. If I tackle one per day, the...

<div style="font-size:120%;width:25em;">The mention of ballet recalled to me the remark, “Margaret, do you want your daughter to be a whore?”  That’s pertinent enough the story of Gigi.  But I could not recall whose life it pertained to.  I did a search on “Wikipedia ballet whore,” and found an astonishing number of articles about sexual exploitation of women in the ballet world.  Later, I had TextPad search my diary files for the word “French,” and found that the remark pertains to Leslie...

My response to the election. This text has been pending for several months, but the only way I can write it now is very different from...