Satire and comedy should be controversial and even offensive if need be, in my opinion. The best humor is funny because it exposes serious flaws in our society – and humanity in general – with a good solid punch line. Humor is supposed to make us laugh, but also make us think about things like […]
America’s next moon landing will be made by private corporations — not NASA. That is the proud declaration of NASA head Jim Bridenstine. But while the mainstream media (MSM) applauds this “cool” concept as the wave of the future, it should be regarded as a huge step backward for our nation. Sure, private corporations such […]
The main reason so many EU countries have strong economies and a better quality of life than the USA is due to the compatibility between labor unions and corporate management. In America we have an adversarial relationship between the corporate State and blue collar workers – and what’s left of the unions. CEOs can make […]
Although it’s virtually a relic of the past, I have always considered the album – or LP, for “long-player” – as they used to be called – as a collection of songs with an overarching theme and a certain stylistic unity. In the case of an artist with a long recording career like Bob Dylan, […]
(Below is a research paper my wife and I submitted a few years ago for an ‘Inter-cultural Communications’ class, back when a sitcom called COMMUNITY was being aired on NBC. Other than The Simpsons, this was virtually the only show of this genre I had watched since the days of Cosby Show / Family Ties […]
The Old Testament and New Testament are very different books; extolling and worshiping very different gods… The Christian Bible is the New Testament, based on what Christ’s followers wrote about the life and teachings of Jesus over forty years after he was supposedly crucified. As the Roman empire evolved, different religious sects began to create […]
Americans need to get over the myth that we have a “free press” in the USA. The free press has been gone for a very long time. All US media – even many ‘indie’ media sources – are owned by the same six corporations. Americans also need to understand that main-stream media (MSM) is controlled […]
Federalist Paper #10 is a continuation of Federalist Paper #9, entitled, The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, in which James Madison argues for the need of a successful Union to “break the control and violence of faction.” According to Madison, these factions are “diseases” born of dangerous vices. […]
As the Commander in Chief, the President has the ability to send US armed forces into combat without Congressional approval – as long as he informs Congress within 48 hours – like former President George W. Bush did when he authorized the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. Another formal power granted to the President […]
The framers of the Constitution were all white, wealthy landowners who had no problem with the idea of human slavery, or various other forms of oppression. Women and white men who owned no property were excluded from what were supposed to be our “inalienable rights.” Voting and equal protections provided in The Constitution were given […]
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