Delivery delays

Anecdotally we’ve heard that Amazon has been swamped and its shipping slowed, its supplies slow to replenish. I can now attest to the first part of that. On March 16, five days after the NBA abruptly ended its season and the same day Trump said “If you’re talking about the virus, no, that’s not under …

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Same sentiment, different era

Here’s a song from a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical called Allegro. It was the third collaboration between the two after Oklahoma and Carousel and it was “a very respectable flop,” as their encyclopedist Thomas Hischak put it. It did run on Broadway for nine months. The song is sung from the point of view of …

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