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The Great Denial

The Great Denial

Well, what we got in 2016 was the most terrible president in my baby boomer lifetime. And that took a lot, because just about all of them before him did nothing to help working stiffs. In 2020 the big money Democratic machine pushed, in my estimation, the worst...

” … when Silence is Betrayal!”

” … when Silence is Betrayal!”

On April 4th, 1967, almost one year before the empire took him out, Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous anti Vietnam War speech at Riverside Church in NYC. Please note that after this remarkably written and given speech, many of his political, media and wealthy...

Terrorists: NOT a Love Story!

Terrorists: NOT a Love Story!

Being a baby boomer who protested against the Vietnam debacle, what the Trump regime is now doing is disgusting. All this week we see Republican Congressional minions and members of the Trump gang standing in front of cameras calling those who peacefully protest...

Am I Just Stupid, Or Is There More To The Epstein Story?

Am I Just Stupid, Or Is There More To The Epstein Story?

Ask yourself this: Knowing what horrific genocidal revenge that Israel has dished out since Oct, 2023, why have both the Biden and now Trump 2 regimes enabled it? I mean it is one thing to simply ' Look the other way' to remain somewhat neutral, but to continually...

1970 Shifts into 2025

1970 Shifts into 2025

Oh boy, 1970 was a crucial year for this writer. Nineteen years old and just baptized into activism on May 5th, with no celebration for Cinco de Mayo that year. My campus at Brooklyn College was closed down by the mass of students like myself who were pissed off at...

300+ Million Angry Americans

300+ Million Angry Americans

This is from Wikipedia: 12 Angry Men is a 1957 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature directorial debut, adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay.[6][7] A critique of the American jury system during the McCarthy era,[8][9] the film...

Middle School Amerika

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

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!

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

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

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!

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!

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!!

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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!!

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...