Monthly Archives: October 2024

A step in the right direction, but…

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos fired off an op-ed on Monday explaining his decision to stop endorsing presidential candidates. The move is the right one, even if many of the newspaper’s staff are in open rebellion.

“Most people believe the media is biased,” he writes. “Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion.”

Reports say the Amazon founder also intends to employ more conservatives, a welcome move, given that the legacy media’s idea of a conservative tends to be never-Trumpers like the Post’s Jennifer Rubin. She has flipped on some of her most heartfelt issues rather than share a position with the ex-president.

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Doubles in life and literature

I just had to post this photograph of that time I shared a good laugh with Judi Dench.

Heh-heh.

No, actually, it’s Brendan O’Hea, co-author with Dench of the fascinating book I just finished, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent. But oddly, he looks rather like me, doesn’t he? Or like a long-lost cousin?

The photograph, from the back cover flap of the book, has me reflecting on the architype of the double in life and literature. Perhaps it is strangest when it occurs in the real world.

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