Divertimento

(Wag the Dog ) Divertimento, a musical form from Mozart’s time, usually meant as a time killer.  Take away a source of angst, maybe.  Consider the current political situation:  The Donald’s approval rating is in the tank.  A majority of the nation’s voters view (to put it mildly) his presidency as a failure.  What can be …

My Military obligation

What they used to call it back-in-the-day.  Every American male (without disqulifiers like fallen arches) had one.  I think it meant six years or so we owed to Uncle Sam.  The fact that it no longer exists results from technology and demographics.  In the Census taken just after I was born the population of the …