I highly recommend This New Yorker article.
by Arthur Panaro Finton O’Toole’s reviews of Chris Christie’s Let Me Finish and Cliff Sims’s Team of Vipers in the March 21, 2019 The New…
Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte, to me, is a mysterious, mesmerizing, intoxicating, overblown character. He, like all overblown persons, “over-blew” himself. Carl Jung said of such…
Messianic Capitalism of Arthur Jensen / Network directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Paddy Chayefsky
From the script, Jensen’s rant… Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it!! Is that clear?! You…
“A world of secret passions is perverting the men who make your laws.” — Frank Zappa Part 1 Can imprisonment of people for profit ever…
We had just celebrated the birthday of the Christian Lamb of God—he of the lineage of Abraham—accepted as the Savior in the West, the Near…
Chapter 1 The December 2013 Smithsonian has Ron Rosenbaum’s interview of stage and film director Julie Taymore—she of the glorious staging of The Lion King…
TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE Jesus saith, “Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.” Pilate saith unto him, “Truth? What is truth?” John…
Hey Rush: Youzz presumptuously have the habit of lumping community-oriented-left-democracy with communism and socialism. Well how about youzz bein’ a kind-a facist? Of the 14…
Preface “Life is what you do while you’re waiting to die,” Donald Trump, then a real estate tycoon bound for bankruptcy, told Playboy* magazine in 1990. “You…