This Week's Quote

Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

Source:  The Guardian

Dame Maggie

Image:  Facebook

The great British actor Maggie Smith died today at 89.

New York Times critic Frank Rich once praised her as "the stylized classicist who can italicize a line as prosaic as 'Have you no marmalade?' until it sounds like a freshly minted epigram by Coward or Wilde."

In other words, she was a gay man.

The Kickoff

Image:  Google

Today is the first day of February, so it's the first day of Black History Month.

Google got the observance off to a fine start with a Google Doodle celebrating author James Baldwin. It depicts him writing longhand.

I think of this Doodle as a threefer, since it lauds someone who was Black, gay–and left-handed.