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by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 31st, 2020
…Director Arthur Jones makes his auspicious feature debut with “Feels Good Man,” an engrossing and timely documentary that examines the phenomenon of artist Matt Furie’s Pepe the Frog. Created by Furie in 2005 for the comic “Boy’s Club,” Pepe’s now iconic visage morphed into a surprisingly durable meme—made…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 30th, 2020
…Yes, America Is Truly Exceptional In The Healthcare Business!In 1833 conservative German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck created the first universal healthcare system in the world because he recognized it was the job of government to protect all Germans. In addition to the Insurance Bill of 1883, he passed the Accident…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | August 24th, 2020
…“History, like payback, is a bitch.” - Chicago Dog“History as a discipline began as a confrontation with war propaganda. In the first history book, The Peloponnesian Wars, Thucydides was careful to make a distinction between leaders’ accounts of their actions and the real reasons for their decisions. In our time,…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 24th, 2020
…Matt Dreiling worked for twelve years as a cameraman, gaffer, and cinematographer on feature films, documentaries and commercials. A few years ago, he fled Hollywood with his girlfriend for the wilds of Montana to begin the second act of his career.Dreiling is the author of “Black Sunday,” a graphic novel…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 23rd, 2020
…Joe: Use These Points To Tell Americans What You Are Going To DoFirst, a little story of how my French brothers and sisters run a civilized country. Maurice was a happy rooster in his backyard on the island of Oleron off the French coast. He guarded the three hens that…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | August 19th, 2020
…“The problem for white, liberal males in positions of responsibility in the 1960s (and later), whether at universities, banks, law offices, small businesses and corporations, or legislatures was that the intellectual arteries of their colleagues were clogged by racism, a racism driven by fears, phobias, and long-standing ignorance and prejudice.”…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 19th, 2020
…Peter Medak, the veteran filmmaker who met with early career success directing Peter O’Toole in “The Ruling Class,” puts together a fascinating cautionary tale in “The Ghost of Peter Sellers.” Haunted for more than four decades by the catastrophic disaster of his ill-fated relationship with the legendary comic genius, Medak…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 19th, 2020
…Will Thoughts And Prayers By The Violent Gun Culture Save The NRA?The National Rifle Association was chartered in the state of New York in 1871 as a non-profit organization with a social welfare mission. In the good old days it taught hunters, marksmen, and young boys and girls the proper…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | August 13th, 2020
…“The essence of Russia’s foreign policy is strategic relativism: Russia cannot become stronger, so it must make others weaker. The simplest way to make others weaker is to make them more like Russia.” - Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia – Europe – America, 2018“Democracies die when people cease to…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 13th, 2020
…The line is repeated so often that it does an instant, sexist disservice to the band’s greatness: The Go-Go’s were the first group composed entirely of women who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to climb to the top of the charts. And the next cold fact,…