I Leave My Closet Yet Again

Once again, I actually went outdoors and am now reporting back on what I saw.

The lawns of the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood used to be Los Angeles’s premiere destination for angry protests, often multiple opposing ones at once. When I went to UCLA in 1980-82, they were full of anti-Shah and anti-Ayatollah demonstrators, Nuclear Freeze activists (remember them?), Armenians denouncing Turks, and so forth.

So, with lots of publicity about protests in Los Angeles (such as the above headline in the New York Times), I was wondering if my appointment today at the Federal Building’s passport office would coincide with mobs of irate Iranians, angry Antifa, hot-blooded Hondurans, peeved Palestinians, irredentist Israelis, or whomever.

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