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The Real ‘Sports of Kings’ … Not for Us Suckers!!
Borrowing from the moniker of horseracing as the ‘Sport of Kings’ this writer is going further into the sewer of media hype. I love sports and acknowledge that I am a fan of many sports, with even some teams as my favorites. Methinks that in the past few years I have...
Four! More! Years!
Nothing is certain but death. Taxes used to be, too, but recent legislation proved they’re not, if you have enough money. So, it can’t be said with total confidence that Joe Biden will be the Democrats’ nominee to scrum with Trump, but after the last massacre it’s...
Money for Something
Isn’t it funny how whenever Uncle Empire needs to find some of that green to solve a problem THEY deem vital, they find it. When they DON’T deem it necessary they don’t! Go back 12 years or so when the villains covered in Aaron Glantz’s fine new book Homewreckers...
The ‘ DemonCrats’ Gift to Trump
Since we are the only major industrialized nation to have but two political parties with any clout, the corporate masters can control everything... and they do! You have the DemonCrats and of course the RepugnantCans, neither the ' Party of FDR' or ' The Party of...
Two Other Pandemics: The Lemming and Apathy Viruses
Of course, the worst pandemic of the 21st century is out and about us. Italy is now in a 'lockdown' state and throughout most of the world people are in a panic mode. And why not? Viruses like this Corona Virus can kill. Yet, in the world of politics there have been,...
DEMOCRATICIDE
Natural disasters come barreling out of nowhere, unforeseen. Before they occur, cataclysms and catastrophic events of the physical world–tidal wave, earthquake, wildfire, eruption–are inconceivable. They blindside us utterly. Human-caused calamities are quite...
Banana Amerika: The Fix Is In!!!
This writer has watched countless boxing matches over the years, and has seen how in many instances ' The Fix is in'. The powers that be want a certain prospect to move up the ranks, they ' Fix ' it. With boxing all you needed was two judges and maybe the referee, and...
South Carolina Primary: What Does It Mean?
What are the political ‘takeaways’ from yesterday’s South Carolina primary? In just few words: not many. None that change the fundamental dynamics that have in play throughout the primaries in general thus far to date. Biden bought himself some time, at the expense of...
Love is Lovelier the Third Time Around, Isn’t It?
sure as hell hope so. I’ve been going through a rough patch these last few years. My search for true love has been disastrous. I suppose this is not unusual, but for it to be concentrated in just a few years has made me quite desperate. I am thinking about embarking...
Piling on Dirty Harvey.. not the War Criminals
Channel surfing yesterday and all the empire’s main ( so called ) media had the same breaking news. The jury came out and finally got the #MeToo movement’s poster boy, fat, dirty Harvey Weinstein. Well, dirty Harvey deserved what he got coming to him, even if half of...
The Beatles’ Baby you’re a Rich Man 1967 and how it resonates MORE now
The Beatles, with an assist on backup vocals by none other than Mick Jagger, had this hit song in 1967 : How does it feel to be One of the beautiful people? Now that you know who you are. What do you want to be? And have you travelled very far? Far as the eyes can...
Junior High School politics
Many baby boomers like this writer seem to have better ‘ long term memory’ than what just transpired recently. I can remember, almost vividly, when we held our student government elections over 50 years ago. Current NY Senator Chuck Schumer, running for school...
The Perpetual War Scam
Years ago the late great historian and author Gore Vidal came up with that phrase ‘Perpetual War’. He knew, that even back to the early days of our republic, we are a nation predicated on Perpetual War. Whether it be war on Native Americans ( who were here way before...
Painting A True Christ: A Review of Terrence Malik’s “A Hidden Life”
There’s an early scene in Terrence Malik’s masterful new film – what I would call a moving painting – where the central character Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian peasant farmer from an isolated small mountainous village who refuses to take an oath to Hitler and fight...
Homewreckers and Nationwreckers United
This writer just interviewed Aaron Glantz on his new bestselling book Homewreckers. This is more than a ‘must read’… it is a ‘Have to Immediately Read’! Glantz covers the beginnings and the rash aftermath of the 2008 Subprime Housing bubble. Even though I have...
In Our American Empire, “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break…”
Kudos to the 1941 W.C. Fields comedy film “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break” for the inspiration. Well, this certainly does fit with what is transpiring now in our American Empire. This writer lives in an area I have always labeled as Death Valley USA, this Daytona...
Amerika Down the Rabbit Hole
In Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Alice chases the white rabbit and falls down the well into a world of silliness and nonsense. Not so for our dear Amerika and us working stiffs. The world that we have found ourselves in may be nonsensical, but surely much more...
Farruggio in 20/20
Now, we all know that there is not a chance that I will be elected president. I guess I have as much of a chance as poor Bernie Sanders has with this current and corrupt Democratic Party. In his case this writer has even changed my political affiliation from Green...
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Everything!
It’s really interesting how many of us equate how the love of God should be expressed. Many religions dictate that we who care should restrict ourselves to doing good deeds and NOT becoming too rebellious towards the ‘things of the world’. Hogwash! Just look at the...
Hovering in Cyberspace
e live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world became people’s “window on the world.” An electronic nothingness replaced reality as people gleefully embraced digital wraparound apparitions. These days people...
(Burying) ‘The Salt of the Earth’
The Rolling Stones created a great and meaningful song ‘The Salt of the Earth’ in 1968: I wanna drink to the hard working people Let’s drink of the lowly of birth I wanna raise my glass to the good and the evil Let’s drink to the salt of the earth. Say a prayer for...
Truth on Martin Luther King Day
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” MLK As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole. Across the country – in response to the King...
The ‘ Big Squeeze’ on Sanders
Now, get this straight. I am not a ' Democratic Socialist' or a supporter of the Democratic Party. Yes, I just changed my political affiliation here in Florida so I can vote for Sanders in the upcoming Florida primary. My ' short term' goal is to see this retro...
War, What Is It Good For?
Edwin Starr in 1970, had this hit song War. This was of course during the apex of the phony war in Vietnam. One line of the lyrics that resounded so well for this writer was : War Friend only to the undertaker War War War-Good God, now Now Give it to me one time now...