by Philip Farruggio | Jan 15, 2026 | Blog
We first have to understand, in a darkly humorous way, just how far down the rabbit hole the Trump Regime has fallen. I take it back, it is NOT so humorous at all folks! Looking how ‘Life imitates art’ we should watch Don Siegel’s 1956 film Invasion...
by Philip Farruggio | Jan 15, 2026 | Blog
It was ’85 and this writer had been divorced for going on four years. I had my two young sons, 10 and 7, living with their mom and her boyfriend in Canarsie Brooklyn. I lived in this quaint attic apartment a half hour away from them in Elmont, Long Island, not...
by Philip Farruggio | Jan 15, 2026 | Blog
Chris Hedges just wrote a powerful column on the great Scheerpost site entitled Grand Illusion. He calls America, our nation, a dying empire, similar to what transpired in most past empires. He mentions the vast Roman Empire and the 20th century Nazi Germany one. The...
by Philip Farruggio | Jan 7, 2026 | Blog
We have always lived in a society that hinders mental health care instead of enabling it. Now, this writer is surely not a psychiatrist, but I did spend a night in a Holiday Inn Express. My experiences as a patient of Freudian psychoanalysis 40 years ago taught me,...
by Philip Farruggio | Jan 2, 2026 | Blog
Just about this wintery time of year this writer can almost inhale the memories of 50+ years ago. Actually, it was January of ’69 and we college students needed bread AKA money, moolah or dinero. Being 18 and single, vibrant and seeking female companionship...
by Philip Farruggio | Dec 26, 2025 | Blog
It was Christmastime 1984. He had been separated for three years and divorced one. It was a Saturday, and he always spent Saturday with his two sons. The oldest boy was nine and the younger one but six. He would drive in from his apartment forty minutes away and take...