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Arsenal of Democracy… or Hypocrisy?
This baby boomer loves his country... but rarely the leaders, movers and shakers. For 50 years I have been calling small businesses nationwide, speaking with so many fellow citizens. The majority of them seem to be regular working stiffs like myself. Yes, some of the...
Chiquita Ain’t Got Nuttin’ on Us!!
The $ 64,000 question, especially for all you baby boomers out there, is when exactly did we become a Banana Republic? One should realize that the power of money has always tainted our electoral system. This is why the Super Rich have maintained their position of...
It’s Alright Ma…I’m Only Bleeding!
In 2015 Alex Gibney had an insightful documentary on Scientology, Going Clear. What really got to me was how utterly foolish and chronically masochistic many of those former members of this so called Church were. I have studied various cults, and even dabbled within...
Leaderless!
Can you imagine that after my generation either was pushed into the Vietnam phony war or pushed into the streets to get us out, we have arrived at this, this ****? Bad enough that less than twenty years later we twice destroyed and invaded Iraq (occupying it the...
The Futility of Feudalistic Democracy
First thing first: If you want to know what is going on in the world, especially the political world, do NOT turn on the boob tube. And that is what it is, a vehicle for boobs. Similar to the world of sports media, if someone is allowed on mainstream television, then...
The Sickness- A Farruggio Original
It was late, nearly 1 AM. She was fast asleep in the bedroom, the one he just tiptoed out of a few moments earlier. They were both usually in bed by 11 PM weekdays and this was just a Wednesday. He blamed the stupid need to have action seven days a week that had him...
Wake Up Working Stiffs
Ironic how so many who say they worship Jesus as their Lord and Savior forget all that he taught: If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. But those who want to get rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many foolish and harmful desires...
Bordellos R US
In a play on words the 'US' in my title can mean the 'Us' being we here in the USA. Get it? You see, what our nation has become is simply one big bordello! Wherever you look you see whores surrounding us working stiffs. I don't mean the 'working girls' who must 'do...
The Real ‘Rent Scoundrels’
Having spent the first 40+ years of my life paying tribute to landlords, this writer knows the crime of it all. I am not referring to the system of ' One landlord/One Tenant' that many of the neighborhoods in baby boomer Brooklyn consisted of. That was in the 50s and...
Tired of the BS?
Well, this writer may have failed 40 years ago at a standup career. Now I plan to use this new piece as fodder for another attempt to be in front of an audience. Perhaps just in front of a radio audience will suffice. The bottom line is, like the Howard Beale...
The Past Is Prologue
Just viewed, for the first time, the 2012 ESPN documentary ‘Ghosts of Ole Miss’ written by Wright Thompson and directed by Fritz Mitchell. The film covered the 1962 segregationist riot at the University of Mississippi in opposition to the first Afro American student...
Strangling the Sadness
He loved his daddy, as he always called the man. Whether he was that little three year old boy or that sixty three year old son, his father was just his ' Daddy'. As he peered into the nursing home room at that emaciated figure, once so broad and full of energy, now...
Comfortably Numb… On Jesus Radio!
{As a preface to this column, this writer has been an adherent of the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. Thus, I believe wholeheartedly in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, and that he was truly ' Anointed with the Christ spirit'.} One Sunday morning I decided to...
White WASP Fright Never Dissipates
The only real difference between white extremists of today and their cousins 100 years ago is ' Who are we discriminating against?' In 1920 Congressman Albert Johnson of Washington State introduced legislation to slash the numbers of immigrants allowed into our...
LEFT OUT: As Good As It Gets!
For all those out there like this writer who consider themselves to be socialists, we are like the Jack Nicholson character in Joseph Brooks' 1997 film As Good As It Gets. Nicholson plays a writer, Melvin Udall, who is suffering from OCD ( Obsessive Compulsive...
Beer, Burgers, Bangs & Flag Worship
It used to be, to this baby boomer, that July 4th was reserved for barbeques and fireworks. We were kids back in the 50s and early 60s, before Vietnam, and we had fun. Well, things changed quickly with the advent of America's latest phony war by 1965. Bob Hope was...
If I Didn’t Laugh I Would Cry
The late great spiritual teacher Louise Hay taught that resentment is terrible for one's health. She said to ' Release' from resentment as a daily exercise. This writer does agree with Ms. Hay that this existence is but a dream. We all have the power to create our...
It’s Always About Protecting Our Children
Ever notice how all those right wing groups of mothers are so concerned about keeping their little kids safe from seeing and hearing what they deem as perverse? As a baby boomer who has learned to be tolerant of differing lifestyles and personal tastes, I can ‘shake...
A Farruggio Original: DADDY
Amazing how it has been almost 20 years since he passed away, and I still refer to him when speaking with my brother as ' Daddy'. Is it just a baby boomer remorse or is it what the man always meant to me? As I grew older and went to college, smoked pot and chased...
Farruggio for President 2024 – May 2023 Update
Since my governor, Fascism Forever Captain Ron as I call him, just announced for President , allow me to jump into the fray. Of course, I have not much of a chance as anyone else who stands apart from the Two Party/One Party scam to get the support needed without...
A Farruggio Original: The Empty House
First it was the girl cat, 19, who finally succumbed to old age infirmities. The night she fell to the floor and could not get herself to her feet was too great a shock for anyone to endure. They carried her to the all night emergency vet and the husband waited...
This is NO Democracy!!
I just love it when all the media political pundits and talk show hosts ( News Talk?) throw out that word Democracy. You don't have to go to a ranch to find more bull excrement than that. Folks, this is not a democracy and probably never was one... all the way back to...
A Farruggio Original: FAT GIRL
She was fat... and she knew it! She was always, it seems, fat and had to deal with it. For years, when she was growing up, she believed that this is what God had dictated for her. As she got older and perhaps a bit wiser, she began to understand things better. Maybe...
One Big Union
When the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW AKA The Wobblies) was established in 1905, their goal was to see ' One Big Union ' formed in the USA. The Wobblies came from the socialist Western Federation of Miners organization led by William D Haywood. Up to that...