I’m on a visit to the East Coast while a ring of fire encircles people and places I love. I have been waking to alerts from the Los Angeles Times that bring me to tears. It doesn’t help that one — whose name I will not mention — in a unique position to offer consolation and support instead prefers to hector and rant. As with everything else, he gets it absolutely malignantly wrong when it comes to personal tragedy and […]

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