by Philip Farruggio | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
Ok, you all should know about blood transfusions. Watch any of the hospital shows on the boob tube and see how, in dire emergencies, they rush to do blood transfusions. Well, guess what? The depression level financial crisis for us working stiffs is here. Now, many of...
by Philip Farruggio | Nov 27, 2020 | Blog
Go get Rick Perlstein’s great book Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980 and see how we got here from ‘There’, the turn to the right wing in the dawning of Reagan’s presidency. Even the slogan that Trump ‘borrowed’ from...
by Philip Farruggio | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
We were all taught in grade school of the story of the ‘Trojan Horse’. In its war with Troy the Greeks built a gift of a giant horse. They informed the Trojans that, after 10 years of war, they had had enough. Once inside of Troy, the Greek horse, filled...
by Philip Farruggio | Nov 18, 2020 | Blog
The 1980 film Brubaker starring Robert Redford, based on a true story, had one scene that told it all. Reform warden Henry Brubaker gets fired for seeking to uncover past corruption surrounding the penitentiary. As he is walking away down the hallway, his friend...
by Philip Farruggio | Nov 9, 2020 | Blog
I usually agree with most of what columnist Caitlin Johnstone offers. Yet, in her latest Op Ed she says that a vote for Biden was NOT against fascism, which will continue now that he is in office. Sorry Caitlin, I agree with Prof. Cornell West on this election. We...
by Philip Farruggio | Oct 24, 2020 | Blog
In Francis Ford Coppola’s second Godfather film we see Michael Corleone, head of the most powerful Mafia family in the country, having a ‘ tete de tete’ with Nevada Senator Pat Geary. The Senator, as crooked as the Corleones, is attempting to shake...
