by Philip Farruggio | Aug 7, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Philip Farruggio | Jul 30, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
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...
by Philip Farruggio | Jul 26, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Philip Farruggio | Jul 18, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
{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...
by Philip Farruggio | Jul 13, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
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...
