ethics

Ferguson. ISIS. Robin Williams' suicide. Gaza Strip. Ebola. Border refugee crisis. Ukraine. Syrian civil war. Boko Haram. Global warming. It's been a bleak summer worldwide. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it sucks. I've found that when significantly bad things happen, I don't write something. Sometimes, it's because I have an

For New Year's Day, my wife, two friends, and I saw Les Misérables. Visually, it's amazing. I found Anne Hathaway's performance most compelling and I decided that Eponine, played here by the broad-shouldered, tiny-waisted Samantha Barks, should have been called "Corsette." There is the critical scene in Hugo's masterpiece where Bishop Myriel, also known as