CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

I had planned to write about Ted Lasso’s endearing optimism or Cruella’s redeeming qualities after watching the Apple TV show and seeing the movie. Then I caught the most recent episode of CBS’s Sixty Minutes. My train of thought took a 180-degree turn. Syria’s President Bashir al-Assad has gassed and tortured his own citizens during the country’s ten-year civil war. Substantiated nerve gas and…