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Middle School Amerika
I have spent my entire life since the age of five as a sports fan ( standing in our living room watching Johnny Podres finish off the Yankees for the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers' world championship on a tiny black and white TV). Played four years as a wide receiver at...

Obedience
In 1961 Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted experiments on obedience. Basically, he set up a fake testing office whereupon two volunteers would be participants each time. Actually, there was only one volunteer each time, as the other was a...

Op ED Commentary: Please Don’t Step In It!
I gotta get back to doing standup comedy. I mean the **** is so smelly and deep no matter where you look. Don't you just love those countless television and radio commercials showing Americans how those lovely corporations are there ' To help you'? I...

A Farruggio Original: Sidekicks
An ocean of time goes flying by for the 32 years we are sidekicks. This writer has had many male friends, who, at the time, were my sidekick. Eddie, Tommy, Carmine, Warren were pals who I hung out with, played ball with, chased after women with, cried on each other's...

Why This Must Be a Dream
As a student of metaphysics since my college days, I have finally realized the truth. You can spend all the millions of hours reading Edgar Cayce, Astrology books, Past life testimonials and of course the best book I ever read, The Autobiography of a Yogi by...

The Feudal Stain: NO More Absentee Landlords!
There are three major motion pictures that every working stiff should watch... and recommend to others. The first such film ( and of course there are so many more) this writer recommends is Martin Ritt's 1970 The Molly Maguires. Inside the disgrace of the feudal...

The Big Sin!
Let's get it out there, as the kids in my 1960s youth would exclaim 'Damn Straight'!! All those fellow citizens of mine who still drink the Trump led Republican Party Kool-Aid, shame on you! Goddamn it, they just followed the leader and made sure the Super Rich got...

MAGA Working Stiffs: It’s TERMINAL!!
When you find out the woman you have loved for 32 years is terminal, reality sets in completely. The evil fed beast of greed, selfishness and lack of empathy stands there through the camera lens, with such arrogance. One wonders how the MAGA WORLD feels today when...

A Farruggio Original: The First Train to Purgatory
The group of Ascended Masters stood outside of the station. As the train pulled in it was Jesus The Anointed One who spoke first. "Fellow Masters, take a good look at this sight, for this is the reason we are all down here." This was Purgatory, the only place other...

A Farruggio Original: Kings of Street Football
I met David in sixth grade. We seemed to hit if off from the start. I had forgotten that we played against each other in Little League. Funny how some things escape us while other, more insignificant ones, stay with us seemingly forever. Not only were the two of us in...

Working Class Heroes…. STIFFED!!
John Lennon, prolific as a writer as much as a performer, wrote this: Working Class Hero As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A...

Good Germans Redux
In Eric Kurlander's 2017 book Hitler's Monsters he sums up the whole 'Fuehrer Messiah Complex' in a nutshell: "In the Nazi version of history and politics, Hitler figured as a redeemer who would save the German nation and lead a godly realm to an ultimate victory over...

Homelessness: The Way Out
I drive up US1 through Daytona Beach, Florida and suddenly they appear. The men (usually) stand by the stoplights holding crude cardboard signs they have made. The message is how they need monetary help for their next meal, and in many instances the hidden need for...

A Farruggio Original: The Wolfdog
When you're a five year old you really don't know what is occurring away from your focus. There I was, a little boy from the streets of Brooklyn, NY, USA now transported to some farm in the country. That meant upstate NY with all kinds of animals flowing by me like in...

The Far Right Wing Mirror Apocalypse
A must see for everyone concerned about the state of our Republic is Petra Costa's 2024 documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics. Ms. Costa captures the essence of the far right wing evangelical movement in Brazil that pushed Jair Bolsonaro into the presidency in 2018....

A Farruggio Original: He’s Gonna Die! He’s Gonna Die!
Before one can tell a tale properly one needs to go further back in time. Five years before I was born my mother gave birth to a dead child. She carried the fetus for the entire term and then, horrifically, the baby strangled on the umbilical cord and was delivered...

A Farruggio Original: The Waiting Room
It must have been when the last bomb was dropped, annihilating the entire planet. As usual, the cause of this horrific destruction was when a few jackasses went ahead and followed the lead of the fool from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. As the Capitol was disintegrating into...

Make Amerika Germania Again!!
While he relaxed in total power Adolph Hitler, ever the architect ( of more than just structures), dreamed of his modern Nazi city, Germania. The Furher , while invading and occupying most of Europe and sending Jews to their death, instructed his top architect Albert...

The Jesus the Hypocrites Have Forgotten (Or Never Knew)
Amazing how so many so called 'Good Christians' don't know squat about the man they worship as their redeemer. Those people have been encamped inside the MAGA tent that they obviously forgot, or never knew, what the man from Nazareth taught: "Let each of you look not...

Animal Farm Amerika
It was 80 years ago that George Orwell's book Animal Farm was published. The last words of the book sum up what we now have been experiencing in Amerika: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was...

MAGA NEIGHBORS: WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SWAMP!
I realize that many of my neighbors decided to follow the leader, not once, but now twice, and elect this craziness. All that I ask is that those of you who are NOT very wealthy, and are working stiffs like this writer, to look closely at this Trump Train. While you...

Warriors Wanted
The US Army, perhaps in need of more ‘boots on the sand’, is revving up its ad campaigns. The latest television ad says it plain and clear: Warriors Wanted! And why not just appeal to the childlike, video game raised young men and women to join up? Then they can get...

Uncomfortably Numb!
Having someone close to me with a severe mental condition as the needles of American Fascism penetrate my psyche is much too much. The boob tube lies to me about what Israel is doing to Gaza and now Iran. Having neighbors surrounding me who are either oblivious to...

The ‘ God’ They Don’t Know
Interesting how we have three countries that are led by people who don't know a rat's ass about their Creator. Look at what develops when all those hypocrites assume power and influence. My nation has not just a MAGA movement, but an infiltration by so called 'Lovers...