As this issue goes to press I’m still reeling from the media response to this year’s Oscars. (Still nauseated, maybe? Yes. That sounds more accurate.) I don’t watch the Academy Awards. Ditto that for the Grammys, Golden Globes, ESPies, or even the Westminster Dog Show. Entertainment awards ceremonies usually are excruciating, self-congratulatory abominations where insufferable […]
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