TERROR IN THE STREETS!!
I am afraid to go to sleep at night. What if Hamas decided to stage an attack on my house in Rockford. My cynical friend Jeremy Chiaroscuro tried to reassure me.
Category: Fleming
The Lighter Side of War to the Knife
Hamas and Israel are sticking to their game plans of inflicting maximum damage on each other’s civilian populations, but back here in the center of the universe the citizens of the only remaining superpower are continuing to abide by the rule that in war truth is the first casualty. At least our people are lightening up the situation with their comic antics.
War podcast Part 2 0f 2: The Beginning of the End of the World?
When will the second best Congress the world can buy follow the lead of Rand Paul and Donald Trump who advocate a foreign policy based on foreign interest? When will Americans realize that Hamas’ leaders may be evil but they are not clueless.? The argument concludes with a few modest proposals for peace.
Rumors of War: Podcast Part 1 of 2
In this first part, Dr. Fleming and Rex dissect the dishonest and degrading rhetoric of the American debate on Hamas’s terrorist attack.
Westerns Episode 11: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss a movie in an entirely different mode from the Man with No Name Trilogy and even High Plains Drifter and beyond: the sympathetic-to-the-Confederacy film The Outlaw Josey Wales.
The War in the Middle East
It has been 50 years since the last general war in the Middle East, the Yom Kippur War, which had been preceded by serious conflicts between Israel (backed by the US) and the Palestinians, Egyptians, and Russian
Religion Medici: Anger Management
In Ephesians 4:22-27, Paul instructs Christian converts to live according to the faith. He specifically cites the need to tell the truth, control anger, and work productively (rather than steal):
Westerns Episode 10: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
In this episode Stephen and Dr Fleming agree to disagree on the good, the bad, and the ugly in perhaps Leone’s most celebrated film.
When Bad Things Happen to Good People……
This a much revised section of a chapter (“The Demands of Blood”) of Volume II of Properties of Blood. It is the first of a series of chapters in which vengeance–its nature, its institutions, its justifications–are discussed. It begins by taking up one of the oldest and still most thorny ethical dilemmas: Why do good men suffer, and what can be done about it? It is the first step in laying the groundwork for understanding the violent anarchy into which American society has fallen and the possible means at our disposal for redressing the injustices.
