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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

...on January 6th, 2021 at the Capitol Building, NOT in Los Angeles! It must be difficult, Donald, to keep getting instructions from your core of Neo Fascist minions (or is it handlers?) like the new Goebbels Stephen Miller and the new Himmler Steve Bannon. Or was it...

I just returned from the supermarket. Was in the produce section checking out the lemons. A shopper  was nearby, a 60 something woman who was dressed like myself in a strictly working class attire . I remarked how the lemons were highly priced and  " You need a...

He was my dad, and he most likely never had a chance for a better life. He was born in 1915 to a Sicilian father and Neapolitan mother, both immigrants. When Alphonse was ten, he lost all his teeth from  gum disease. Then, at seventeen, at the onset of the Great...

For decades this writer has been getting flak from friends and associates for my belief that this life is nothing but a dream. My readings of Indian yogi and mystic Yogananda reveal how the Hindus and other Eastern religions hold this to be true: The 3rd dimension we...

In 1973 I was still a somewhat naive college senior ready to face the business world. My major had been in Speech and Theater, with a minor in Sociology. As the year was ending and the new one upon us, I was engaged to be married and needed to find secure employment....

It was a hot, sunny Saturday afternoon in late May, 1970. I always went to the 5 PM Mass at  St Edmunds Catholic Church to avoid the regular crowds. Once there I stood in my usual place, which was back by the exit door. This day there was this other guy standing right...

  We have someone running what they call ' Homeland Security' ( or should we say ' Fatherland Security'?) who actually looks and acts like her counterparts from Germany circa 1940. This former Governor of South Dakota, with a population about the same as my...

I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet I can't talk to people that I meet If I could see you now I'd try to make you sad somehow But I can't, so I'll cry instead Kudos to the Beatles for this passage from their 1964 song I'll Cry Instead. Obviously...

She was the oldest of three girls born right before WW1. A very smart kid, she excelled in grade school right through high school. Great with numbers, she was a natural to become an accountant. No way. Her father needed her to get to work and earn money to help the...

Now, most students of the early years of Nazi run Germany can see the truth of it all. Meaning how the far right wing of American political life took ideas from that horrific playbook. Reagan and co. decided to use blacks and browns living in our ghettos as the...

Sometimes you can almost inhale memories of the past, regardless of how long ago they were. Imagine, 55 years has flown through the time tunnel of this baby boomer's incarnation and it feels like yesterday. May 4th, 1970 was a very traumatic day for us anti war...