Welcome to the American Freak Show!

‘Twas the late, great William Shakespeare that said:   “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts…”   I couldn’t agree more with this statement. While the famed poet and playwright described the ages, stages and phases of life as a seven-act play, I tend to think of life as more of a circus sideshow, a freak show of sorts—mostly predictable, but with oddities and things sometime