Category: The Nature of Evil
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I Grew Up In The Holocaust’s Shadow
I grew up in the 1960’s in a mostly upper middle class Jewish suburb in northwest Baltimore. Pikesville was so predominantly Jewish that the area — and its Junior & Senior High Schools — were known as ‘Kikesville’, get it? World War II ended 14 years before I was born. By the time I started…
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Wouldn’t Ya Just LOVE To Give Conservatives The World They REALLY Want?
Remember this guy? The Crypt Keeper? Friend of mine actually. For real. He used to say “Be careful what you wish for, kiddies, you may just get it!” Then the Crypt Keeper would laugh — kinda like this — And then he’d get on with the episode. Now, of course, when the Crypt Keeper warned…
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When Imagination Fails – WE Fail
How does one explain the consistent inability of American News Media (and news media from all over the world) to grasp and report the Trump-Russia Story? Even now when the average panel starts to pick apart what Donald & Vlad are doing together, the Media STILL want to pretend that everything happening is absolutely normal…
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I Have To Be Honest: TrumpWorld Has My Creative Juices Flowing
A Universal Truth (well, Universal minus 30% of this country) – Donald Trump is the worst thing to happen to this country since the Civil War — and, before that, slavery. But even Hell On Earth, turns out, has the itsy-bitsiest of silver linings. Truth is a lot of us who ‘fancy ourselves’ as ‘creatives’…
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Evil’s Too Smart To ‘Billboard Itself’; That’s Why It Births Itself In Banality…
Maybe it’s ‘my’ fault… ‘Our‘ fault if I include the rest of my screenwriting ‘tribe’. I could widen the tribe out to include anyone and everyone who ever helped make a movie that gave an audience the notion that Evil is BILLBOARD OBVIOUS the moment it ‘walks on stage’. Alas, if only more of my…
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“Karma’s A Bitch” – MITCH MCCONNELL EDITION
When the end of this story gets written, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be seen as one of its Primo Villains. Mitch has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russia (via his PACS — totally legal — until the context becomes TREASON). He’s worked hard, hard, HARD for his Republican Donor Class benefactors…