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Category: fascism

  • Acts 28: Sticks & Snakes

    When the survivors of the shipwreck made it to shore, the people of the island of Malta came out to help them. While they were gathering wood for a fire, Paul was bit by a snake. At first the islanders thought Paul, a prisoner, must have been a murder getting justice after escaping the waves.…

  • Boomtown

    Today I am going to talk about economics. Not that I am necessarily qualified to do so, I only took two classes in it. My maternal grandmother on the other hand, majored in economics and graduated with a degree in it, from Berkeley, in the 1930s  Can you imagine what that was like? Studying about…

  • Angry Young Men

    I keep hearing voices in the media wondering about the motive of the attempted assassin. I am not sure what his particular ideas were, but it seems to fit pattern of public violence. Shooters are often angry young men. There have been several who went through high school, outside of the group, seeming inconsequential to…

  • The Right to Be Wrong

    I just watched the series Transatlantic, another Netflix World War II miniseries set in occupied France. The story is about how some Americans saved artists, writers and thinkers of the 20th century from the Nazi invasion of Europe. Unlike The Light, We Cannot See, this is based on real people in history. It was surprising…

  • Tough Times & Choices

    The movie that I ended up seeing back-to-back with Oppenheimer, was not the Barbie movie, but the 1975 film The Hiding Place. If you aren’t familiar, the story is about a Dutch watchmaker and her family that hide Jews during the German occupation. (There are some free streaming services that have it.) Both films are…

  • Truth & Consequences

    Individual rights come with individual responsibilities.​

  • The Persistence of Pain

    “Where are you folks from? Come by to see our pain?”

  • Fascism’s Fail

    Much is made of Hitler’s bad treatment of the Jews, but it was not his undoing. Freeing the concentration camps was actually a surprise for many of the Allied forces as many did not know the extent of his killing enterprise. Hitler’s need for control and power was insatiable and ultimately his and his country’s…