The benediction “may you live in interesting times” is, of course, an ironic curse. But, so also would be that one should preside over tedious times. It is one of…
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I will argue with anybody that the most theatrical of religious orders is the Society of Jesus—the Jesuits. Nobody else comes even close, and Hollywood seems to, agree. Elsewhere I…
© Warner Bros, 1973 Nothing in film adds an extra dimension…
Because my father possessed an 8mm print one of my earliest and favorite films was Chaplin’s 1917 Mutual Easy Street. The short silent begins with the homeless “Little Tramp” waking…
Las Vegas is a fake city, a national casino, whorehouse, and gun show venue founded by organized crime in the desert and dressed up in the icons of real cities.…
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 might be doing something wrong—nobody has tried to muzzled me, to shut down Dragon City Journal, although somebody did comment recently that I should just “shut up” (it was…
The eclipse is now history, but the thoughts it occasioned are still relevant. So here they are. Eclipse is a facile metaphor; something gets in the way, blocks something out,…
The last nuclear war was a one-sided affair. It was the only nuclear war, the one the USA unleashed on Japan in 1945 to bring the Pacific War to an…
From the beginning of his campaign a lot has been made of Donald Trump’s stupidity. Some might say “stupid like a fox” but there is no doubt the man is…