Reaganland Redux
Rick Perlstein's 2020 bestseller Reaganland is a must read for many reasons. First and foremost this 900 or so pages book reads like a novel... Perlstein is that great a storyteller. He covers the rise of the right wing in our nation, focusing from Jimmy Carter's...
Poem on a plaque in the Wiesenthal Holocaust archives in L.A.
Op ED Commentary What Israel is doing to Gaza, and what the settlers are doing in the West Bank, are heinous acts. What Hamas did on Oct 7th was equally heinous when civilians are murdered. When open minded people read my pom (permanently in the Simon Wiesenthal...
Let Us Eat Cake!
They attribute the famous quote ' Let them eat cake' to Marie Antoinette, Queen Consort of King Louis XIV of France. Apparently, she was told that the peasants did not have enough bread to eat. Her retort Let them eat cake, famous for all the Super Rich throughout...
A Farruggio Original: When They Were Little
The divorce was powerfully negative. No one is right when everyone is wrong. Yet, he still could enjoy those two little munchkins. Picking them up from elementary school on released time Weds. and shooting over to Brennan & Carr for an early dinner. The oldest...
UNComfortably Numb!
Sailing back listening to Pink Floyd's classic Comfortably Numb. The mood of melancholia is mixed with a musical yearning for something seemingly out of my reach. As the song ends I get tossed hard into the current reality. Oh, how I wish I could replay that song ad...
Seven Days in May… No! Five Days in November!
Every American who has even the slightest interest in our political and electoral system should watch the 1964 classic film Seven Days In May. Director John Frankenheimer, along with screenwriter Rod Serling ( he of The Twilight Zone fame) , captured the essence of...
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