(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 …
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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 …