She keeps coming back into our lives like the cat in a certain campfire song who wouldn't stay away though "they thought he was a goner." She, of course, is Omarosa Newman, who first appeared on pop culture's radar during the very first season of The Apprentice. That was fourteen years ago. She was fired in week nine, which means she finished in 8th place, but she made a memorable impression (the love-to-hate sort of impression) for avoiding elimination as long as she did through back-stabbing At any rate, in later seasons Trump kept having her back. In July 2016, the Trump campaign named her its Director of African-American Outreach. Apparently because she was black and sort-of famous. It isn't clear whether she had a regular work day during the campaign or what she did during such a day. Maybe her new memoir sheds some light on this. She got a similarly vague communications job in the new administration, leaving in December 2017. The manner of that le...
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Humans love cats in large part because of their innate grace, because from the time they are kittens they already seem to know how to move, how to make the best use of the space around them. Humans also love dogs, in large part I submit because of their acquired grace, because when they are puppies we can often see that they are clumsy, that they charmingly bumble about in space. Note the troubles of the fellow shown here. We love dogs because we can see them learning to be graceful as they grow. Humans become "cat people" or "dog people" depending on which sort of grace we find most appealing, the innate or the acquired.