It doesn’t matter whether Donald Trump accepts the outcome of the election. You can’t expect grace from a graceless man. The outrage about his latest stupid remark just grants him a power and significance he doesn’t deserve. The good news is this: To the extent that Trump was a force, that force is now spent. He’ll certainly lose the popular vote by a large margin and he […]
Call Nancy Grace; there’s a poem missing
This month’s poetry selection is not really a poem, but the half-remembered fragment of a poem. I came across it a decade ago while at work, and printed it out and memorized as much of it as I could. Now the printout is long gone, and my memory isn’t much of a backup system. The poem, I’m pretty sure, is called “Song on Turning 70.” It’s by […]