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HL 118 – Trump Trashes Transition
Leaving aside the unanswerable of whether God is a subscriber (See HL 117) we turn to elective office transition, a subject we have not insubstantial experience with. We chaired the transition of two different state attorneys general and one governor, all in New...
HL 117 – Prison or Not For Donald Trump
Classic liberals of an age, and certainly of a certain age, have been voting adults during both the Nixon and Trump presidencies. (Classic liberals always vote) During both, the question of whether a former president should be tried, and if convicted imprisoned, was...
HL 116 – Roland Garros 2020 Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose
In a brief respite from the excessive monitoring of the most recent polls in swing states and with enough time to watch selected matches a second, and with one a third time, HL delivers its annual review of Roland Garros, the quintessential French Tennis Experience...
HL 115 – Nancy The/Is Great
[fusion_text]As we hold our collective breath during the last pre-judgment month, we fear many plausible terribles. Such as Trump’s self-inflicted death from Covid-19 and the “morbid obesity” that Nancy likes to mention – or Melania mercifully assisting him along the...
HL 114 – On The Day She’s Laid To Rest What She Was To A Hopeless Liberal
As with Black History Month (See HL 68) this blog/newsletter celebrates and commemorates idiosyncratically, with personal experiences deeply affected or related to that and those honored. But on this day when she is laid to rest, we say first that the passing of...
HL 113 – The Asterisk Tennis Open at Flushing Meadows
With “volume” 113 HL returns from the August furlough to report what was saved, what lost and the sui generis at this year’s United States Open Tennis Championships. This was the first U.S. championship HL did not attend since the 1962 tournament at Forest Hills. ...