Douglas Fleming, Requiescat in Pace
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The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Trump Prosecution Is Political Persecution
Now that former President Trump has been indicted and will become a prisoner, however briefly, in America’s vast Gulag Archipelago of hellhole concentration camps – such as those in which some of the Jan. 6 protestors still languish – what next?
Wednesday’s Child: My Oscars
Seeing that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences understands film about as much as the United Nations understands anything, this week I’m giving out my own Oscars. Admittedly my choices are the haul of a lifetime rather than of a single year gone by, as I haven’t been to the cinema or watched a film by any other means for at least a decade.
Westerns Episode 5: Double Feature — Red River (1948) and The Furies (1950)
In this episode Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss Red River (1948) and The Furies (1950) and the ending of the sentimental Western in favor of tougher, grittier stories and characters. These films were chosen to look deeper at the theme of empire-building in the West. Homework for next episode: watch Buchanan Rides Alone.
Magdalen Nabb
A few days ago, in the discussion of the Nashville school shootings, I suggested that if people wan’t to gain a more serious understanding of the transgender world, they might not do better than to read the seventh of Magdalen Nabb’s detective mysteries set in Florence (not South Carolina).
Poetry: Hog Killing on the South Santee 1983
I wrote this fifty years ago after taking part in a hog-killing. We did eat every scrap of the pork.
Wednesday’s Child: No Relation
It is an irony of fate, like something out of a Shakespeare history play, that the daughter of a tyrant should have married a man with the same surname as his archenemy and likely nemesis, yet Mrs. Zelensky is not in the least fictional.
“ALL WE ASK IS TO BE LET ALONE”
The cost of living continues to rise as we of the working class awake to “another day, another dollar,” knowing full well we must do so in order to support ourselves, our families, and the growing number of unemployed who rely on us for their “benefits.”
One Precious Right
WARNING: THIS IS NOT FOR SENSITIVE SOULS
Katrine Jean-Pierre and other spokesthings for the regime are showing their contempt for the lives of citizens by politicking the school shooting in Nashville.
Westerns Episode 4: Rio Grande (1950)
In this episode Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss Rio Grande (1950) and the sort of story of national healing that it, in part, represented, combined with a broken family being reunited and some good ol’ cowboys and injuns gunfights. Homework for next episode is a double feature: watch Red River and The Furies.
