Vaccine hypocrisy

I’m against flu shots and most vaccines. I guess that makes me some kinda ‘anti-vax’ conspiracy nutcase. I’m 53 years old and I’ve never voluntarily had a flu shot, I admit it. But I am also healthier than most people my age. I just think that getting an ill-vetted vaccine each season is not a […]

Cuba

In the years following World War II the United States had many economic ties with Cuba. Most involved human exploitation and criminal activity in some way. The Mob moved in and legalized gambling in an attempt to lure American tourists. Prostitution and illegal narcotics were also promoted on the island. The tourist industry flourished. The […]

The Hypocrisy of the US Prison System

The United States is the last country in the world which should be speaking out about human rights abuses when it continues to torture people at military bases and inside its military, federal, and state prisons across the country. The US has the world’s largest prison population by a huge margin. There are nearly 2.2 […]

The Vinland Sagas

The Saga of the Greenlanders and the The Saga of Eirik the Red tell of the Viking discovery of North America. The two accounts were written independently, but the stories are ‘interlaced’ (they reference each other). Both tell of events which took place in the early 11th century and passed down by word of mouth […]

Morality in the Icelandic Sagas

The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey’s Godi (Author unknown; late 13th century). The Saga of Hrafnkel, Priest of Frey, is one of the best known of the Old Icelandic legends dealing with a feud, as most sagas do. Hrafnkel’s Saga is unusual in its directness and for its simple, forthright structure which focuses directly on the feud […]

TRINITY

HERE I SIT ALL ALONE BY MYSELF WITH THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST   HERE IS STAND ON MY OWN FAR FROM HOME WITH THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST   THEY KILLED MY KIN TO SAVE THEIR SOULS THEY STOLE THEIR GOLD FROM THE MOTHER AND THE […]

A True Crime

My best friends are buried in the back yard they lie comfortably in the beds we made beneath the shade of the crab-apple trees   We wrapped them in satin sheets Oh mother earth! Please guard them well I won’t forget They live in my heart    

TROPE BUNCHING #2 / ‘Moxie’

Analyze the following: ‘Moxie’ by Jerome Shea  When Moxie was first in your mouth, you didn’t know what you had taken in. But by then it was past worrying. Of course you could spit it out but, a good New Englander, you swallowed. Then the first charge hit. Dry—I remember that so clearly—not the silly […]

‘Just Say No’ to pharmaceutical drugs

An increasing number of shooting rampages are being committed by individuals who are under the influence of or withdrawing from prescription drugs that are known to cause mania, psychosis and even homicide in some patients. Colorado authorities confirmed James Holmes had received psychiatric care at the University of Colorado for undisclosed issues before donning combat […]