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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The dictionary defines abyss as "A Deep or seemingly bottomless chasm." Look around you folks and realize just how far down that rabbit hole we have fallen. You turn on the boob tube and try to watch a NFL football game. The teams are owned by billionaires . The...

The 1960 Stanley Kramer classic film ' Inherit the Wind' is a must see for everyone, especially our young middle and high school students. This film focused on the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial when a teacher was arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee. Yet nearly 100...

Many thanks to Bob Dylan's great song of the same name. What rankles me is how so many of my friends, neighbors and acquaintances seem to accept how far down the rabbit hole our Amerikan society has fallen. We live under the broken umbrella of an nation whose...

When you're 20, playing college football, chasing girls and barely keeping enough passing grades to stay out of the draft, what could be better? That was this writer in the fall of '70, at the height of the Vietnam debacle ( I never would call it a war). Just...