"Father Coughlin 1939" watercolor by Ben Shahn in exhibit Jewish Museum NYC (closing Sunday). Shahn's work resonates very strongly right now.

MAGA/Trump recalls Martin McDonaugh’s horrifying yet awfully funny play, THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE (2001) in which fear of Padraic, a sadistic Irish IRA militant (INLA in the play) causes his cringing minions to attempt resuscitating/replicating his much loved cat, Wee Thomas.

NoPassport Press (2024) All the scripts from the 2016 project in response to Pulse nightclub shooting. Includes my monologue, (Ob)scene

brilliant and uncomfortably engaging

from the NY Times this morning, referring to DT attack on DEI: "And on Wednesday, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said the company would not back away from its D.E.I efforts in response to activists. “Bring them on,” he said in an interview with CNBC."

“ ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and yes, our fearless disrespect.” KNIFE-Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie