A Look at the World

I just watched the above movie directed in 2017 by Emilio Estevez and starring him and Alec Baldwin... as well as a cast of well-casted "homeless folks". The fictional movie tells of an "Occupy" of the Cincinnati public library by some 100 homeless men...

It appears the US is being run by mammothly myopic people concerned mainly with mammon. But then... who elected them, if not we who exhibit the same tendencies?

I've been thinking... Probably the wrong way to deal with autocrats and demagogues is to play the game they play and that they want you to play, i.e. keying into their publicity grabs in order to focus attention on themselves. Fascism plays on fear, the...

How do you tell the difference between a republican, a democrat,a socialist, a communist and an anarchist? Answer: A republican has 2 cars A democrat has 1 A socialist takes the bus A communist rides a bike An anarchist walks. Any comments?

I only have a handful of memories of Martin Klopp, and those dim at best. We always knew him as Grandpa, even though we later found out he was really our step-great-grandfather. This was because Martin and his wife Helen adopted my mother and her brother,...

Simone Weil was a French woman, a philosopher and of a non-practicing Jewish family. She died at the age of 34 of starvation in 1943. She is not to be confused with Simone de Beauvoir, fellow philosopher and mistress of French existentialist philosopher...

Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil, they were two complex and enigmatic personalities that had some similarities and many differences. Both were contemporaries French women; both philosophers; both strong, independent and knowing their own minds; both...

"Turn, Turn, Turn" is the name of a song by the 60's rock and roll group The Byrds. It's inspired by Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 from the Old Testament. The song goes: "To everything, turn, turn, turn, There is a season, turn, turn, turn, And a time for every...

What do Robert E. Lee, John C. Calhoun, and George Orwell have in common? Nothing, until recently. But since a lot of flap, deservedly so, regarding Confederate flags and monuments being reminders of the evils of slavery 150+ years ago, the question of...

Simone Weil was a French woman, a philosopher and Jewish. She died at the age of 34 of starvation in 1943. She is not to be confused with Simone de Beauvoir, fellow philosopher and mistress of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, although the three of them were...