I just had a double-whammy this week.  I attended a community play of George Orwell’s 1984 (where an authority tries to convince a captive that the four fingers he’s holding out represent five fingers), and watched the movie The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski (where Oscar-winner Adrian Brody frantically escapes one Nazi after another in...Read More

In the movie L.A. Confidential there’s a scene where the Guy Pearce character (police officer Ed Exley) talks about his father who also was a cop who was killed by a suspect that was never found.  He tells the Kevin Spacey character (Jack Vincennes) that the man’s name wasn’t known, but that he gave him...Read More

Many people who voted for Trump in November, 2024 support the Ten Commandments that God delivered to Moses in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.  They want to see it in our schools.  Trump himself has spoken out in favor of a 2024 Louisiana state law that requires all public schools there to display the Ten Commandments...Read More

Ever since the Inauguration of Donald Trump last month, I have kept silent about the terrible things that are happening to our country right now.  But I kept thinking about this poem I’d read several years ago and it kept haunting me.  Here it is: First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemoller First they came...Read More

We’re all focused on the COVID-19 virus right now, but an even greater threat to our nation and our world is the Trumpona Virus (TRUVID-20).  Viruses don’t have the ability to replicate themselves, so what they do is insinuate themselves into a cell body and deceptively and parasitically co-opt the mechanisms and materials of that...Read More