“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)   The other day I was watching TV. (We’re quarantined. Sometimes there is little else to do.) In any case, in the mindless surfing that approaches an altered state, I saw an ad that left me nearly apoplectic. It consisted of a series of faces covered by masks of all types and sizes. The voice-over repeated like the peeling of bells over St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Easter: “This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is solidarity.” It propelled me off the couch. I screamed, “IT’S A MASK.” It’s a mask that we would not have been allowed to wear into a bank or a federal or state office or municipal office a mere three months ago. It’s a mask. It’s a mask. It’s a mask. Like a man condemned to psychological torture in the Gulag, I...(Read Full Article)