by Philip Farruggio | Mar 6, 2026 | Blog
Millions of American baby boomers grew up watching The Three Stooges comedy shows on our little black and white televisions. Matter of fact, along with The Soupy Sales show, the stooges became a must see for many adults as time went on. The pub down the street from...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 2, 2026 | Blog
Image By Jacek Halicki – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link A few months ago I was chatting with a retired lawyer friend at the local Y. He is a devout Catholic who regularly attends Sunday Mass. When he informed me that he believed approximately 75% of people who...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 2, 2026 | Blog
There are puffy clouds called people that float through your sky of life. Some are so cottony white, some are dark and filled with lightening and rain. Others are almost translucent, allowing you to look beyond into heaven above. That one was my Aunt Suzie. A bit...
by Philip Farruggio | Feb 21, 2026 | Blog
John Sayles wrote and directed the blockbuster 1987 film Matewan, about the 1920 ‘Battle of Matewan’. This was centered around the Matewan ,West Virginia coal miner’s strike that saw scores of people left dead. Fast forward 115 years to Minneapolis,...
by Philip Farruggio | Feb 12, 2026 | Blog
Just watched the late Rob Reiner’s 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi for the umpteenth time. The movie, based on a true story, covers the 1989 retrial of the killer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, one Byron De La Beckwith. The assassination of Evers by...
by Philip Farruggio | Feb 5, 2026 | Blog
Rock artist Phil Collins put it succinctly in his major hit song ” I Don’t Care Anymore’: Hey, I’ll do alright by myself ‘Cause I don’t ‘Cause I remember all the times I tried so hard And you laughed in my face ’cause...
