by Philip Farruggio | Oct 12, 2025 | Blog
Oh boy, 1970 was a crucial year for this writer. Nineteen years old and just baptized into activism on May 5th, with no celebration for Cinco de Mayo that year. My campus at Brooklyn College was closed down by the mass of students like myself who were pissed off at...
by Philip Farruggio | Oct 11, 2025 | Blog, Dissident Voice
This is from Wikipedia: 12 Angry Men is a 1957 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature directorial debut, adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay.[6][7] A critique of the American jury system during the McCarthy era,[8][9] the film...
by Philip Farruggio | Sep 30, 2025 | Blog
I have spent my entire life since the age of five as a sports fan ( standing in our living room watching Johnny Podres finish off the Yankees for the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers’ world championship on a tiny black and white TV). Played four years as a wide receiver at...
by Philip Farruggio | Sep 27, 2025 | Blog
In 1961 Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted experiments on obedience. Basically, he set up a fake testing office whereupon two volunteers would be participants each time. Actually, there was only one volunteer each time, as the other was a...
by Philip Farruggio | Sep 27, 2025 | Blog
I gotta get back to doing standup comedy. I mean the **** is so smelly and deep no matter where you look. Don’t you just love those countless television and radio commercials showing Americans how those lovely corporations are there ‘ To help you’? I...
by Philip Farruggio | Sep 27, 2025 | Blog
An ocean of time goes flying by for the 32 years we are sidekicks. This writer has had many male friends, who, at the time, were my sidekick. Eddie, Tommy, Carmine, Warren were pals who I hung out with, played ball with, chased after women with, cried on each...
