American Consequences - December 2020

OUR WRITERS AND STAFF SHARE TIPS ON ENTERTAINING YOURSELF DURING A LONG, COLD LOCKDOWNWINTER

P.J. O’ROURKE As my wife Tina recently said... “I was going to be fluent in French

by now.” She’s gotten as far as “Excusez-moi, je ne parle pas français.” And I was going to read Milton’s Paradise Lost . But I can’t seem to find the Garden of Eden anywhere... Maybe I should look behind the couch cushions. Like the rest of the world, we’ve been reduced to less daunting forms of self-amusement. Tina has been on a murder-mystery kick. She says, “The great thing about murder mysteries is that the minute you finish them, you forget them. So you can turn around and read them again with absolutely no idea of ‘who dunnit.’” Tina is on her third go with Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express . “Do you think,” she asks, “it’s possible that all the murder suspects are guilty?” As for me, I’m whiling away the time in my basement’s carpentry shop. The only problem is that I’m not a carpenter. My woodworking skills are pretty much limited to building rickety shelves in the garage. And I have built lots of rickety shelves in the garage. The following is what our other American Consequences colleagues have been up to. (Meanwhile I just heard a large crash. I think all the gardening tools just fell on my car.)

WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT (AND DAY)

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