Sometimes, mice ventured upstairs and hid behind the piano. When I began practicing, they would shoot out due to the horrible off-key sounds piercing their teeny, tiny, perfect-pitch sensitive ears.

First-edition dust jacket cover of John Steinbeck’s novel ‘Of Mice and Men,’ published in 1937. Via Wikimedia Commons Many on the Left — in cahoots with Islamists — would very much like to minimize ...