I’m often horrified at what this country has become, especially because it didn’t start with Trump. It might very well end with Trump but it began before the U.S.A. was a country, when we decided owning slaves was okay because… Read More ›
Ethics and Philosophy
DOGMA
FOWC with Fandango — Dogma Unless you count drinking coffee and checking email as dogma, I don’t have dogma to which I feel attached. I do, however, have personal rituals. Stuff I do, stuff in which I believe or at least… Read More ›
BACK IN THE SADDLE — BY GARRY ARMSTRONG
“The Saddle” was a TV studio, WCCA-TV. Worcester Community Cable Access television. It was nirvana for a retired TV news reporter. I was the guest. The hostess was Liz Myska, a lawyer who is also severely visually-impaired and an advocate… Read More ›
HOLLYWOOD AND MORAL CHARACTER – Marilyn Armstrong
How stupid are we? This post in its various permutations has gotten nearly 5,000 hits. Not recently, but in the first few years of posting. For several years, whenever I got more than 1000 hits in about half an hour,… Read More ›
WHAT IT ALL MEANS – Marilyn Armstrong
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in… Read More ›
WHAT KIND OF IDEA ARE YOU? – Marilyn Armstrong
From Salmon Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses”: I don’t fit in a category. Not me, not my ideas. The concept of “compromise” as wrong bothers me. Not because I “go with the flow.” I have no idea what “the flow” is. I’ve never been in… Read More ›
POLITICS AND RELATIONSHIPS – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I recently read an autobiography by the Saturday Night Live actress, Rachel Dratch, called “Girl Walks Into A Bar…” I enjoyed the book, particularly the adjustment of a single 44-year-old woman to motherhood, a committed relationship, and co-parenting. Rachel started… Read More ›
GIFTS, DREAMS, AND MAKING IT HAPPEN – Marilyn Armstrong
The lie has become so ingrained in our culture that we accept it without question. Today, I question it, its validity and its basis. Just because it has become our national motto doesn’t make it right. This is the lie… Read More ›
EVERYTHING. NOTHING. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? – Marilyn Armstrong
I’m always glad to have a reason to pull this out of my archives and dust it off. It represents years of thought, night-long discussions in college, several obscure philosophy courses and at least one 40-page research paper. How bizarre that now,… Read More ›
WORDS ARE WEAPONS – Marilyn Armstrong
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me.” It’s an old childhood chant, a miserably inadequate defense against bullies and bigots when one is small and powerless. It was oft-repeated, not only by us,… Read More ›
IMMORTALITY AND AGING – Marilyn Armstrong
I am not sure I ever believed I was immortal, most likely because I didn’t think about it. Until sometime during college, when my various courses forced me to ponder the nature of life and death. College was the peak time… Read More ›
GREAT, GREATER, GREATEST – Marilyn Armstrong
Kind of reminds me of the old talkin’ blues — “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like!” I don’t know — or care — if the blogs I follow are great, greater or greatest. It’s… Read More ›
