Thoughts Day by Day

Is anyone else as outraged as I am about the news that Flint, Michigan's water supply is polluted with poisonous lead?  This was not surprise news to Michigan politicians.  They knew about the contamination and tried to cover it up.  They should all be put in jail for life. A friend recently noted that in ancient Rome leadership was held highly accountable for their decisions.  For instance a Roman architect was required to stand directly beneath the arch of a building he had designed while the cornerstone was put in place.  If the arch did not collapse upon him his design was a good one.  If it did....  Well, I believe American politicians should be held equally accountable for their decisions.  They changed the source of Flint's water supply from Detroit's reservoirs to the Flint river - and bypassed the treatment additives in order to save money.  Everyone who was involved in that decision should be required to drink Flint's water for th...

“Cats” is returning to Broadway. This was NOT one of my favorite musicals. In fact, probably my least liked musical. I remember reading the spectacular reviews when it first opened on Broadway and then running out to pay top dollar for a pair of tickets. But even though I paid premium price we sat 2 rows from the back wall of the mezzanine. So where were the cheaper seats located? In the lobby? In my opinion the music sounded like a collection of cheap, unsophisticated TV commercial jingles. My summary of the plot line: “A bunch of alley cats dance around in a junk yard. One of them dies and goes off to heaven. The end.” And I could not understand all the fuss over Betty Buckley’s performance. It consisted of standing on the stage twice to sing ‘Memory’ and then rising up to the ceiling of the theatre while standing on a noisy fork lift in need of a new carburetor. Was she on stage for more than 10 minutes? For that she won a Tony Award. But I don’t make my living as a ...