Darkly Optimistic
Insights and commentary from a Rebel with a Cause. Observations, essays and reviews.
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The Four Pillars
The 10 Commandments are a time-tested set of rules for living. Handed down to us from God at Mt. Sinai, they form the basis for a civilized Judea-Christian society. They put basic boundaries around our behavior, and Jews and Christians have...
Never Look Away
Never Look Away is the title of a 2018 film by director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, a rich, beautiful, complex film, perhaps one of the best I have ever seen. Its themes involve the competing totalitarian systems of Nazism and Communi...
Political Blitzkrieg
Fast and Furious referred to the ATF gunwalking scandal under President Obama or the action film series. But it certainly could be applied to the first few weeks of the Trump administration. The Democrats are howling about the flurry of Exe...
Hope and Rage
It’s 2025 and not 2008. Hope and change has given way to hope and rage, as recent events have stirred up lots of conflicting and intense emotions. Many commentators have spoken about a “vibe shift,” and we’ve had two major occurrences that...
2024 In Review
I usually author an entire year end summary- best fiction and nonfiction books (for the record, I liked James by Percival Everett, as an inventive take on an American classic, and Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, by Richard Muns...
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