Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, allusions to Hitler and the Third Reich are a source of journalistic mockery these days—hackneyed. I’ll take that risk. But I…
The Dying Gaul (ca.1st C B.C., Capitoline Museum, Rome; sculptor unknown) War is good business. Not for everybody, but for the people in the war business. Just take a peek…
DCJ applauds the Motion Picture Academy’s selection of Spotlight as its “best picture” for 2015. The spotlight of public attention to the subject matter of this excellent motion picture seems…
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…
This past week the flaccid mainstream American media compliantly rolled over and launched encomiums on the recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as though “speak no ill of the…
From Ovid and Sappho to Miller and Jong, writers have written boldly about love. But in this imaginary survey of genre writers this ‘thing called love’ proves to be…
Lately I seem to be annoyed by the drumbeat of inane corporate slogans that these days seemed to be added to every commercial announcement or ad. This morning, on KPBS…
Fox News and the right wingnuts love to portray Barack Obama as a weak leader and an appeaser of terrorists. So what does our president do when we have a…