A paradise where mammon reigns and the sun it always shines The wild fires char the foothills and no one can afford to pay the bills; But life goes on much as before inside their gilded, golden shrines The moguls and their minions live among the palm trees and heather in winding hills so beautifully […]
I fell in love with a Spanish Rose she follows me wherever I go She doesn’t know me but that’s okay I still see her every day Spanish Rose Her eyes are dark and full of surprise But I can never see through her disguise I can’t leave her – she was never mine I’ve […]
The IMAX presentation of The Beatles’ Rooftop concert was fun! The first half hour was a live link up with GET BACK director Peter Jackson, from his home in New Zealand. I dunno what time it was there, but he was totally disheveled…it looked like he’d just got out of bed. He did say he […]
If China is supposedly our sworn ideological enemy, then why do they make all of our stuff? Why are we billions of fucking dollars in debt to a hostile nation? How much sense does that make? I mean, if the USA, Inc. is so concerned about China’s supposed human rights abuses and “rampant” militarism, why […]
DON’T LOOK UP is the best movie I’ve seen in years. No other recent film so perfectly captures the absurdity of the times we live in: the rampant narcissism, the infuriating stupidity; the society we’ve created for ourselves is just so sad and pathetic it’s hard to watch it all reflected back at us. Frankly, […]
The Pretenders are still one of my all-time favorite bands. Back when I was a healthy, idealistic young man, I was fortunate enough to see The Pretenders live, twice. Both of those times it was with the original lineup with Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott – before Pete got kicked out of the band and […]
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:”I drink, therefore I am”-Monty Python, The Philosophers Song In his famous treatise Meditation six, Rene Descartes struggles to come to grips with the material world and how we perceive it. He explores the causal relationship between mind and body. Descartes manages to convince himself that he does indeed […]
Infamous French reprobate Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom is a radical statement of intent. In the wake of the French Revolution, de Sade [1740-1814] makes his case for absolute freedom and equality, and he makes it very clear that as far as he is concerned, there can never be any individual freedom until […]
US “president” Joltin’ Joe Biden hosted a ‘Summit for Democracy’ this week. With about 110 hand-picked world leaders in attendance for his virtual Summit for Democracy, Biden sounded the alarm over the rising tide of authoritarianism. The “president” conceded that the endeavor was less of a magic bullet than an attempt to the start a […]
The desire to control the minds of the masses has long been a driving force behind the American educational system. From the very outset, compulsory schooling was used as a means of social engineering. Gilded-Age Robber Barons like JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie had a real need for this kind of [non-]education […]
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