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, […]
Those wonderful young people in Florida have really achieved something: they have finally flushed out the gunhumpers for who they are and exposed them for all to see. Faced with these articulate, engaging and engaged youngsters, the callous nutters like tRump and the NRA have realized that their customary stance of mealy-mouthed platitudes is losing […]
(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 […]
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 […]
Why is network news so awful? Because the main stream media [MSM] is no longer concerned with truth or unbiased journalistic integrity, that’s why. Those qualities have disappeared from contemporary broadcast media since Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. According to the MSM, the only news worth covering is the campaign of Donald Trump. […]
In this post I will compare and contrast the three modes of rhetorical thinking: narrative, dialectic and rhetoric. All three disciplines require us to reason in different ways. I will also briefly discuss symbols. Narratives are stories, traditions, legends which transmit the accepted, agreed upon norms in any given society. A social narrative transfers, maintains […]
Despite all that we’ve learned about the pre-WW II environment in Britain, it is still hard to make a reasonable case for appeasement without the benefit of hindsight. Some historians feel that appeasement was a direct cause of World War II because it allowed Hitler to grow in power and confidence. This is simply not […]
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