It’s impossible to run a country successfully when one political party looks for reasonable solutions and common ground and the other wants it their way even with the tiniest majorities. We need to get past this or America as we know it is over. The most recent school shooting was at a fundamentalist Christian school, …
Strange post today. Or call it two half-posts, since I came across two things I wanted to comment on but neither is inspiring me to do a full piece. First off, someone was posting on a Stephen King fan group I joined on Facebook, asking if other people agreed with them that Stanley Kubrick’s film …
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Yesterday was my birthday. Oh, not exactly. December 11th was actually the 75th anniversary of my birth. It’s why the French saying Bon anniversaire, or “happy anniversary of your birth,” is actually more appropriate. Actually, other countries seem to say things a lot better. Take the English, for example. While I can say, “My name …
Forty-eight years ago, the United States celebrated its bicentennial. It had been 200 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which seemed like a big deal to me at age 26. There had been 38 presidents (if you count Grover Cleveland twice) and I had been alive for six of them (if you …
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“Hope I die before I get old.” I suppose it was inevitable that my generation would be the one absolutely obsessed with the idea of aging. After all, from the mid 1950s onward, Madison Avenue treated us as if we were the first generation ever to be young and energetic. We were the first generation …
I just finished watching a movie and I can’t decide whether it was a great film or a horrible one. I can’t decide whether it was one of the best movies I’ve ever seen or a complete waste of 3 hours and 21 minutes. I had never heard of “Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce …
Who knew Donad Trump won by such a landslide? His spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said, “The fake news is trying to minimize President Trump’s massive and historic victory to try to delegitimize his mandate before he even takes the Oath of Office again.” Apparently Donald and the ‘Zees were upset that Politico and the New York …
On January 11, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a second Bill of Rights for Americans. It’s sadder than hell that people have moved so far to the right in this country that these wouldn’t even be considered today: “Among these are: — The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or …
“I’m increasingly seeing so many people now twigging that everything they’ve been told is a lie. “Work hard, get yer head down and get rewarded? “Aye? “There’s people doing two fucking jobs that are barely keeping their heads above water. People on £50-60K a year are unable to buy a house and also paying a …
My dad died more than 16 years ago, and yesterday at least, I was glad he wasn’t around. He worked for the Department of Defense for 40 years, most of that in the Pentagon, and retired during the Bush 41 Administration. He worked under Defense secretaries who were good and not so good, but he …
