Hamill openly derided the presumed stupidity and ignorance of those who would have invited him, a lifelong activist for leftist causes, to an event at the Republican-controlled White House. But maybe this "oversight" was due to a sincere belief that poetry transcends politics. In that case, Laura Bush just might be the one with the better understanding of poetry.

TG: ...and they ought to bring down the database to renormalize it.
Me: “Renormalize?” That would imply...
Chorus: ...that it was normalized in the first place!

Yuk yuk yuk. (I’m laughing on the outside...)
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