November 1, 2019

Had planned to go to the theater, but the certainty of a bad show–not badly done, but badly written, bad in the kernel–allowed me to stay home with a clear conscience. If I were a god, I would insure that good things got better attendance and better publicity than bad things. I’m reading more since I decided to retire, reading for pleasure for the first time in thirty years. Renewed my library card. Bought a book in Los Angeles about the Red Scare and HUAC in Hollywood, noticing that HUAC tactics are indistinguishable from the tactics of Administration relative to Title IX. Lessons are not learned, or learned again and again: don’t know which is worse.