Ever wonder? I do. Is it the Christo-fascism? The racism? The rapacious capitalistic greed? The militarism? Take your pick. Or, all of the above. They have all been with…
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Ken Burns’ 12-hour Vietnam documentary series is airing this week to great fanfare from PBS, as though the treatment of this controversial war might be finally put to bed by…
I have travelled to over seventy countries, explored hundreds of cities and spent years living abroad in England, France and Hong Kong, enough to confer some understanding of what foreigners…
It has been about seven months now since blowhard Donald Trump announced his intention to “make America great again” as President of the United States. Although I have not followed…
Whew! I actually wrote that. Where was the bolt of lightening? Actually, the great avenging deity might have understood that I wasn’t calling down his omnipotent wrath upon my country,…
It’s perhaps a lame verbal pun. But at least it gives you a heads-up on where I might be going with this piece and you can jump off the bus…
Their corporate image was only slightly less ubiquitous than Coca-Cola’s, eye-catching crimson and yellow brand. Kodak. For people around the world it meant snapshots, 35mm slides, and badly exposed 8mm…
Nothing quite exemplifies American corporatism as does the almost cartoonish CEO visage of Mitt Romney. A man of many mansions and $150 ties purchased by his questionably–gotten millions, he now…
Maybe you saw and heard it, too. There’s a good chance you did; every other TV channel had some sort of 9-11 progamming (except the shopping channels of course—Bush told…
I’m ashamed of this hypocritical country. I just finished watching the Inquisition and immolation of Anthony Weiner, a media reveille for hypocrites for a guy who was foolish enough fall…
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