Burning Down the House
When we first moved into the neighborhood, we rented an apartment from a former aide to House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Always eager to talk politics with me, almost every time we spoke, our ex-landlord would inevitably disclose how disappointed he was to no longer be on the local Congresswoman’s staff.
Seeing this poster pasted to the ground floor of a new condo being built down the street, I couldn’t help but think of my former landlord, and wonder how he’d react to this attack on his one-time employer. Not particularly partial to this brand of agitprop myself, for once, it seemed a little more complex than usual.
It must be the superimposed Tow Away sign, and the 666 scrawled on Pelosi’s forehead. “Endless midrash“, as we were fond of saying in my biblical hermeneutics class in grad school. Everything is commentary.