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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!
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
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!
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!
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
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...
Floating Down the Abyss
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...
Onward White Christian MAGA Soldiers!!!
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...
It’s All Right Ma… I’m Only Bleeding!
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...
The War at Home, Fall of 70
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...
Our Only Hope: Socialism!!
The embedded mainstream media, owned by this Military Industrial Empire, has made Socialism synonymous with Communism. That makes the ( sadly) dumbed down public think of the old Soviet Union with its totalitarianism. They are made to believe that Big Brother will run...
They Trick Us And Move On
Sitting here watching, for the umpteenth time, the Jonathan Demme directed remake of The Manchurian Candidate. Early on in the film the Denzel Washington character says to his troubled former infantry mate " It's over. It's done. Ya gotta move on." So it is with...
Collateral Political Damage
Anyone remember the late ' Not so great' Donald Rumsfeld explaining about killing innocent civilians in our phony wars as ' Collateral Damage'? Then fast forward to today's election cycle and digest the rhetoric being vomited from the mouths of right wing politicians...
Whatcha Gonna Do About Me?
Lyrics You poisoned my sweet water. You cut down my green trees. The food you fed my children Was the cause of their disease. My world is slowly fallin’ down And the airs not good to breathe. And those of us who care enough, We have to do something……. (Chorus) Oh…….oh...
A Farruggio Original: The Daddy Who Never Cried
The man lived until his 89th year and I never saw him cry until near the end. I will get to that later. Some kids never experience the love for their daddy as this little boy called me did. I can remember playing catch outside with my two pals Roy Edelstein and Johnny...
A Farruggio Original: Richie Run the Streets
Sometimes when one looks back at what was in the deeper past speculations become conclusions. This is what it was concerning Richie D. When this writer was six or seven I can remember Richie D. who was a year or two older than me. My family and that of most of my...
Time to Take Off Those MAGA Hats
To all those working stiffs or retired ones, listen to the latest interview between one mega billionaire and another 'Wanabee' billionaire. Working class heroes Trump and Musk took time out the other day to once again stick it to working stiffs. We know they both wish...
Next Stop: Feudalism 21st Century
If one views the classic 1993 Claude Berri film Germinal one can see what 19th century feudalism was all about. It took place in a mid century Northern France mining region. Here in the USA we had John Sayle's 1987 film Matawan , which portrayed the 1920 Matawan, West...
Same Ole PTA
One has to listen to Jeannie C Riley's 1968 Harper Valley PTA to get the essence of what this MAGA movement is doing to our education system. Jeannie C said it best: Harper Valley P.T.A. Song by Tom T. Hall, made popular by Jeannie C. Riley I wanna tell you all the...
Sorry, but I Never Trusted Biden… Especially Now!
This writer is approaching the same zone that many seniors over 70 face. I too can see me forgetting things, simple tasks that a few years ago were never the case. I also have a 'Fellow senior' empathy for what President Biden has been experiencing. The sad reality is...
A Farruggio Original: Donald Meets Jesus…Finally!!
Donald was tired. He just gave his best speech in years, or so he thought. Tomorrow the ' Fake News' pundits would criticize him, but he was used to that. It actually emboldened him... and his loyal followers. Now he needed rest. After all, didn't he survive the...
What Lurks Ahead
This upcoming election is more than just the usual One Party/Two Party runaround that has dominated our republic for so long. One needs to read Tom Stanton's 2016 book Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression Era...
The Coming Ghetto Amerika
With the success of the far right wing phony populist movement, orchestrated by the Super Rich, we all, with few exceptions, are heading into what I call Ghetto Amerika. For decades the controlled media and embedded in empire politicians sold us the Lie that segments...
Prison… Without the Barbed Wire
We look at those poor souls in Gaza, living in what many call The Outdoor Prison. We here in America are fortunate to have avoided such a fate. Yet, there is a physical/psychological definition of our dilemma here. When a fraction of 1% of Americans has such obscene...