Category Archives: Politics
Bully
I’m going to the library today because I realized, from the small class I took, that you must absolutely have a place or a space to go when you want to write. Sometimes, when you’re younger, that “space” can be … Continue reading
Rage quitting and other perils of the modern world.
One thing I learned from my recent “Intro to Fiction” class, where they teach the absolute basics of attempting to write fiction, and which I took as a last ditch effort to kick-start myself back into a writing mode, is … Continue reading
Greed was good.
Michael Douglas was attractive. I don’t know that was ever a great actor but he had a style which is primarily what famous and good looking actors really need. He is most famous for playing the role at the left. … Continue reading
Trans, part 1. August 5, 2025
This will probably be a long rambling entry, which only means that you can be sure it wasn’t written by an AI bot. (On Facebook, I get these entries about dead movie stars, or sometimes closeted dead movie stars that … Continue reading
This would could get me in trouble
But as people get more and more frustrated they start to devolve into the usual homophobic, female-phobic tropes, and they start using the same insults as conservatives. So we get JD Vance prettied up as a fat woman drag queen. … Continue reading
Reslience, by the Elderly
This is part 2 of my take on Biden and his age; what’s happening with polls and the media and so on. So Biden was forced out, probably by mainly Nancy Pelosi who is driven to win more than most … Continue reading
Resilience, by the elderly
Don’t like to include politics in this web site, read by no one, which is meant purely for me to talk about my thoughts and feelings about books and movies. I don’t allow comments because it seems that if you … Continue reading
Civil War, by Alex Garland
I didn’t want to see this because in the preview Jesse Plemons, who I think is the most menacing actor we’ve had in a great long while, asks an obviously foreign born American citizen, “What kind of American?” I mistakenly … Continue reading
Rights. Immunity. By America and various other naive democracies.
There are no such things as rights. No one is born with rights. A baby doesn’t have a right to be born and an elder person doesn’t have a right to compassionate care. You don’t have the right to read, … Continue reading
The Mandate
At first this post was about the British Mandate of Palestine and how Israel was created out of it after the second world war. But I decided that with all the various problems and opinions flying around, that it’s probably … Continue reading