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Deliver Us From “Evil People”: The “Crazy Evils” and the “Caring Evils”
To this writer there are in reality but two classifications of evil people: A) The crazy or deranged evil ones and B) The rational, without empathy or caring evil ones. Just viewed Alan Parker’s great 2000 film Angela’s Ashes for perhaps the umpteenth time. The film...
Understanding Racism and Social Inequality in America … The Rot Runs Down
We have a president who has taken the term ‘Low Base’ to a new level. When he did a ‘pass’ on the Charlottesville white supremacy, Neo Nazi march and street battles that ensued the next day, he gave indirect legitimacy to such a mindset. The ‘rot’ from such passive...
Hurricane Wars. Awaiting Another Deadly Storm
As we in Florida await in our (hopefully) boarded up and sandbagged homes the arrival of but another deadly storm, one has time to sit and ponder things. This writer lived through a major hurricane assault, when Mathew trampled through Port Orange, Florida in October...
What About Me … I Feel The Future Trembling, Like a Stranger In the Land Where I was Born
Just about 50 years ago the West Coast rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service recorded “What About Me”. Sadly, in this America 2019 the lyrics are more relevant. Fifty years later! Let’s analyze certain parts of the song: What About Me You poisoned my sweet...
America 2019: A Woody Allen Film? “Waking Up in the Future to Learn Civilization Was Destroyed”
In Woody Allen’s 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when “a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead.” Shanker was condemned by many when he shut down the New York City school system...