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I’ve had a considerable shock. A fictional hero…isn’t.
When in England many years ago, I bought a pretty collection of five, wee, hard-cover novels. Each book, clad in a yellow dust jacket, measured 7 inches by 4.5 inches, more or less the size of my hand. Despite the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life
Tagged "The Three Musketeers", "The Vicomte de Bragelonne", Alexandre Dumas, Aramis, Athos, Belle-Ile, Brittany, D'Artagnan, Fouquet, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Michelin, Perplexity, Porthos, the Sun King, Wikipedia
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Reading history expands one’s perspective
That’s such a cliché, isn’t it? And like a ton of clichés, true. Nowadays, engrossed as I am in a world history tome as well as in our current affairs, I’ve developed a panoramic view of the human experience as … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Culture, Government, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged "I Claudius", Caligula, Gary Kasparov, Hamtramck Michigan, Hitler, Jimmy Wales, Minecraft, Third Reich, Trump, Wikipedia
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The Weimar Republic versus the United States.
Seems to me this country of ours is indeed splintered…into chunks of fear. A certain percentage of us has been terrified and enraged by endless lies and crazy threats from non-existent enemies. A much larger percentage of us are being … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Government, Kamala, political campaigns, Politics, Pro choice, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights, War
Tagged "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", Alexander Hamilton, autocracy, civil rights, Germany, Hitler, James Madison, John Jay, Reichstag, US Constitution, voting rights, Weimar Republic, Wikipedia, William Shirer
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