In this Christmas season, I submit for your consideration three men, perhaps not so wise, bearing gifts of wholesome entertainment. This first king of the early cinema is known by almost everyone, even if they’ve never seen a frame of his films: Charlie Chaplin
The inability to say no, when it needs to be said, has always been for me a major weakness. I once foolishly took a job as managing editor of a magazine in the Midwest. I promised my wife two or three years and we’d be back in South Carolina—five years at most.
I’m not even going to quote President Trump’s disgusting comments about the late Rob Reiner, murdered over the weekend, along with Mrs. Reiner, allegedly by their son. But the comments are the latest sign Trump is unraveling.
Recently, my wife asked me what would happen when the sins of modernity catch up with us, when our refusal to educate the new generation and our refusal to protect life and property from the ever-expanding criminal would combine with out ever-increasing dependency upon all things electronic to produce a complete collapse…
Reading stories on the teapot tempest over the sinking of ship and the subsequent attack on the survivors made me think, for just one second, that the Mainstream Media were finally going to tell the truth about Israel’s illegal and savage attack on the USS Liberty in 1967.
Maybe Trump won’t invade Venezuela. Or maybe he’ll just launch some Tomahawks, blow up some government buildings in Caracas, and the CIA will a foment a coup to put in power an associate of Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
General MacArthur, it is true, overstepped the limits of his authority, but now Senator Mark Kelly, retired Navy captain, insists that American military personnel have the right to disobey the President–and thus a fortiori senior officers–if they regard an order as illegal.
If wolves and chimpanzees can usually resolve conflicts within the group without massive blood-letting, why are modern human communities so wracked by violent crime? And, while it is true that in wars between groups of carnivorous mammals, the death rate can be very high, the numbers are only a small fraction of the human beings killed in brush wars that barely make the newspapers. Why, then, are human wars so devastating?
Let’s also get real about the real reason for this war: The Europeans and neocons want to destroy Russia.
