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Hey Landlord… Go to Hell!

Hey Landlord… Go to Hell!

I interviewed author Aaron Glantz two years ago about his 2020 bestseller Homewreckers for my internet radio show on our website Itstheempirestupid.com. Glantz put tons of research into his book, and it boggles the mind as to how far down the rabbit hole our nation...

When Daddy Became a Bookie

When Daddy Became a Bookie

My old man got screwed by his Used Car partner right before I was born. He wound up declaring personal bankruptcy after Amos forged his name on a bank loan. Thank goodness my grandfather, my Mom's dad, found him employment on the docks. Grandpa Phil had at one time...

When Daddy Drove a Limo

When Daddy Drove a Limo

The fall from grace can be so deep. Here he was, 36 and broke. Divorced, with two little angels that he saw at least twice a week, regardless of what his ex felt. He had definitely ' Made his own bed' when he blew the cash from the sale of his dying business two years...

Serfs Up!

Serfs Up!

No, this is not about the ocean or surfboards. It's about the current economic and cultural climate we are living in. While the Democratic Party turned a mostly deaf ear to the ills of our working stiffs... for decades, their adversaries, the Republican Wolves, have...

The War Pigs Never Go Away

The War Pigs Never Go Away

Amazing how truth can stand up to time, sometimes in such a sad way. Check out the 1970 Black Sabbath song ' War Pigs' and compare it to today's insanity: War Pigs A Song by Black Sabbath Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds...

Farruggio ’28- Let’s Start Early {Part I}

Farruggio ’28- Let’s Start Early {Part I}

The passing of the torch of One Party/Two Party government has begun. Now, don't get me wrong folks, this MAGA return to power is definitely the 'Stronger of two evils'. No doubt about it, from more tax cuts for the Super Rich, mass deportations of low wage farm...

A Farruggio Original: The Phone Man Par Excellence

A Farruggio Original: The Phone Man Par Excellence

If one was making his life into a movie, Larry would be played by Michael Richards AKA Kramer. He was 6' 2 with that same kooky hair that Kramer had. Always slouched down a bit, with the quintessential cigarette dangling from his mouth, Larry didn't walk... he marched...

Good cops/bad cops

Good cops/bad cops

In John Sayles 1987 film Matewan, concerning the 1920 coal miners’ strike in West Virginia, not all cops were of the same ilk as the Baldwin-Felts private detectives. Those ‘rent a cops’ were deputized by the authorities, at the behest of the powerful mining...

What The World Needs Now…

What The World Needs Now…

In 1965 Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote the giant hit song made popular by singer Jackie Deshannon , What the World Needs Now is Love. I enclose the lyrics: What the World Needs Now Is Love What the world needs now is love, sweet love It's the only thing, that...

A Farruggio Original ‘The Brother’s Visit’

A Farruggio Original ‘The Brother’s Visit’

He loved his brother, from the time he realized he had one. Three years older than him, his brother always had that allure of someone way up upon a pedestal. As a four year old sitting in the apartment kitchen with his mother and paternal grandmother, he could get so...

A Farruggio Original: The Deportation

A Farruggio Original: The Deportation

He was working as a wood craftsman when the ICE agents showed up at the jobsite. A few of his fellow workers started to flee the premises, but he stood there with his tools in his hands. The agents grabbed him, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him. HIs brow...

The Christmas Lesson

The Christmas Lesson

Funny how so many ‘ so called’ Christians kneel and perform such pomp and circumstance every December 25th. All the beautiful Christmas decorations and wonderful seasonal songs are in fitting tribute to … WHAT?   Do any of the myriad of hypocrites and phony spiritual...

A Christmas Visit to Room 103

A Christmas Visit to Room 103

He was Santa Claus every holiday season at the local mall. The photography company built a beautiful ' Santa's Workshop ' in the main lobby of the Kings Plaza, Brooklyn mall. There he would sit, usually in the late afternoons and evenings, after his college classes...

A Farruggio Original: The Christmas Bonus

A Farruggio Original: The Christmas Bonus

He knew he was late, but what could he do? The kid has a fever and his wife was herself late for her school crossing job. Since he was on commission and she had to be there at that street corner on time, he had to comfort their three year old until Gloria showed up....

It’s All Over Red, White and Blue!

It’s All Over Red, White and Blue!

Dylan's song resonates well with this writer, causing me to come to tears. Why? Well, look around you citizens of this Amerikan empire. Like lab rats running nowhere inside a maze with no exit, working stiffs and the poor and indigent cannot find a way out of this...

A Farruggio Original: The Working Class Hero

A Farruggio Original: The Working Class Hero

It was another cold, clammy Chicago January morning. The Serbian was up at the actual ' break of dawn' preparing for work. He had recently gotten his green card and steady work was more of a luxury. His muscular look had gotten him a laborer's job at a construction...

Thanks To The Super Rich

Thanks To The Super Rich

On this wonderful ( and commercial driven) day off from work or school we need to give thanks. The super rich, mega millionaires and billionaires alike, are what's keeping our nation afloat. After all, it is they who pay so much in taxes compared to the rest of us. So...

Reaganland Redux

Reaganland Redux

Rick Perlstein's 2020 bestseller Reaganland is a must read for many reasons. First and foremost this 900 or so pages book reads like a novel... Perlstein is that great a storyteller. He covers the rise of the right wing in our nation, focusing from Jimmy Carter's...

Poem on a plaque in the Wiesenthal Holocaust archives in L.A.

Poem on a plaque in the Wiesenthal Holocaust archives in L.A.

Op ED Commentary What Israel is doing to Gaza, and what the settlers are doing in the West Bank, are heinous acts. What Hamas did on Oct 7th was equally heinous when civilians are murdered. When open minded people read my pom (permanently in the Simon Wiesenthal...

Let Us Eat Cake!

Let Us Eat Cake!

They attribute the famous quote ' Let them eat cake' to Marie Antoinette, Queen Consort of King Louis XIV of France. Apparently, she was told that the peasants did not have enough bread to eat. Her retort Let them eat cake, famous for all the Super Rich throughout...

A Farruggio Original: When They Were Little

A Farruggio Original: When They Were Little

The divorce was powerfully negative. No one is right when everyone is wrong. Yet, he still could enjoy those two little munchkins. Picking them up from elementary school on released time Weds. and shooting over to Brennan & Carr for an early dinner. The oldest...

UNComfortably Numb!

UNComfortably Numb!

Sailing back listening to Pink Floyd's classic Comfortably Numb. The mood of melancholia is mixed with a musical yearning for something seemingly out of my reach. As the song ends I get tossed hard into the current reality. Oh, how  I wish I could replay that song ad...

Seven Days in May… No! Five Days in November!

Seven Days in May… No! Five Days in November!

Every American who has even the slightest interest in our political and electoral system should watch the 1964 classic film Seven Days In May. Director John Frankenheimer, along with screenwriter Rod Serling ( he of The Twilight Zone fame) , captured the essence of...

Amerika : DOA

Amerika : DOA

It wasn't the pandemic  or the slew of hurricanes that has been killing my country. No sir. The ever growing monster called Empire has been devouring our republic for decades. The Super Rich who have always controlled this scam and labeled it democracy laugh every...