by Philip Farruggio | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog
Channel surfing yesterday and all the empire’s main ( so called ) media had the same breaking news. The jury came out and finally got the #MeToo movement’s poster boy, fat, dirty Harvey Weinstein. Well, dirty Harvey deserved what he got coming to him, even if half of...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog
The Beatles, with an assist on backup vocals by none other than Mick Jagger, had this hit song in 1967 : How does it feel to be One of the beautiful people? Now that you know who you are. What do you want to be? And have you travelled very far? Far as the eyes can...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog, Greanville Post
Many baby boomers like this writer seem to have better ‘ long term memory’ than what just transpired recently. I can remember, almost vividly, when we held our student government elections over 50 years ago. Current NY Senator Chuck Schumer, running for school...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog
Years ago the late great historian and author Gore Vidal came up with that phrase ‘Perpetual War’. He knew, that even back to the early days of our republic, we are a nation predicated on Perpetual War. Whether it be war on Native Americans ( who were here way before...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog
There’s an early scene in Terrence Malik’s masterful new film – what I would call a moving painting – where the central character Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian peasant farmer from an isolated small mountainous village who refuses to take an oath to Hitler and fight...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog
This writer just interviewed Aaron Glantz on his new bestselling book Homewreckers. This is more than a ‘must read’… it is a ‘Have to Immediately Read’! Glantz covers the beginnings and the rash aftermath of the 2008 Subprime Housing bubble. Even though I have...
