Carnival by remote

In Port of Spain this Wednesday morning, on the way to work — or to church for the ritual signature of ashes — there is this hung-over, morning-after feeling, and though the drums are silent you can still imagine, as if imprinted on the air itself, the sounds of revelry that, for these past weeks, [...]

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The emperor’s clothes

Stultifiers are after Obama’s hide because he left his jacket at home and didn’t bring it to the office. He is, the saying goes, “disrespecting the Oval Office” by turning up to work without a jacket.
It would seem that, clad in a jacket, a wearer might do a number of things and, thus girded, is [...]

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