A Brief History of WHAT and the Harbor Stage Company The passing of Carol Green last week got me thinking about the long journey we took together at WHAT (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater) and the subsequent birth of the Harbor Stage Company. I was only dimly aware of Carol as one of our reliable donors when, around the year 1999…

Trump’s acquittal is a major loss for the Republican party. A Pyrrhic victory at best. Their party is now irredeemably fractured and we should be celebrating, not moaning. Embracing Trump means embracing a snake who is devouring you and they have done that. Why? Not because they actually believe in…

We watch, alarmed. On every screen at every moment we are given cause for alarm. We thought it would end once Trump was gone if (let our prayers be answered) he would be gone. Well, now he is gone but somehow IT’S not gone, that sense of dread and apprehension…

What do we do about the 74M who voted for Trump? The insurrection sympathizers? The stop the stealers? We ignore them. This strategy is counter-intuitive and may alarm, but let me explain… We’re all rightly outraged by what happened on January 6, and also frightened of what is yet to…

“A politically impotent, conspiracy-addled president whips up a rabble of costumed selfie-snappers and then goes home to the White House with no plan except to watch them get rowdy on TV.” Ross Douthat Last week’s storming of the Capital was a colossal failure for the idiots who made the attempt…

I believe the Capital mob Wednesday was the last thrashing of a dying, cornered animal. What we are seeing now in the firings and the resignations and the stern denunciations from those who were previously throwing gasoline on the fire, AND Trump’s pathetic teleprompter speech Thursday night, is the utter…

UPDATE: Little did I know when I posted this Wednesday morning what would unfold later that day. Some would say I underestimated the probability of an actual coup. In fact, the events only reinforce my point. What happened was shocking and horrifying, but also preposterous. To paraphrase Mike Pence, they…

For the past nine months we have all been the victims of a murder/suicide. Donald Trump and his cult followers are killing us. By refusing to wear masks, by spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories, by undermining whatever semblance of a coordinated national response might have been mustered to defeat the…

It’s time to say it out loud: Trump is insane and the Republican party is also insane. With Covid deaths nearing 250,000 and daily new cases routinely above 100,000 Trump is silent on the deaths/cases and instead tweeting about how Fox news’ plummeting ratings (sic) make him sad. We cannot…