by Philip Farruggio | Sep 21, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
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...
by Philip Farruggio | Sep 14, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Philip Farruggio | Aug 29, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
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...
by Philip Farruggio | Aug 21, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
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...
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...
