Monthly Archives: September 2017

Carte blanche in Canada without needing a license or  paying any taxes while other home-grown companies pay taxes. They don’t even have to declare their Canadian earnings and will be paying less than half of what they carpet-baggerly make in 6 … Continue reading →

In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly miles above your victim and dispose of him by pressing one small switch. All you then require is an ocean to separate you, two systems of government, a nation’s scientists, several factories, … Continue reading →

Cutting through the myriad distractions, Andrew Cohen’s column today in the papers says it all. He figures as soon as early October. Pretty much along the lines I stated here two days ago. Lots of folks with heads in the … Continue reading →

singles out a black man and calls him an SOB. No ambiguity or wiggle room on that Trumpism. Not great optics for the supposed leader of the Western world. Not a great, inspiring role model for all young kids in … Continue reading →

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” –Eden Phillpotts

(Installation by RD) Nothing like turning to the Obits page of the newspaper and seeing the listing for someone one’s known in the past. The vibrations are slight for those further away from one, but increase and resonate when it’s … Continue reading →

He has 181 protesters, many in wheelchairs (yikes! bad optics big-time) bodily and forcibly evicted from the health care meeting yesterday. Thus dividing some of the poorest, less fortunate people in the country from having their First Amendment say about … Continue reading →

(the recommended, ever-intriguing 1990 movie) Watched this one (one of my daughter’s favorites) for about the 4th or 5th time last evening. It remains a curious, engaging movie about one of the sensational rich trials of the past century. But … Continue reading →

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods. There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man less, but nature more.”

(two masterpieces: Welles’ best film and Fitzgerald’s best book–both the best works, respectively in their genres–about the American Dream, about imperfect larger-than-life human beings, about the price of fame, about personal integrity vs. public response, about im/balanced perspectives re. character and … Continue reading →