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There’s A Clean, Well Lighted Place
And Then There's Family Promise No less a literary titan than James Joyce once described Ernest Hemingway's short story, A Clean, Well Lighted Place, as " ... masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written..." And there was a time when, as a youth...
I, Claudius
Decadent Rome. Decadent America? I don't really remember how I, Claudius got on my Netflix radar. I think it was my sister who suggested it. But in any event, it took months, even years, for it to work its way to the top of my queue. But I'm glad-I think-that it...
The energizer politicians.
They just keep going. And going. And going . . .
I don’t need to remind you of the Energizer Bunny commercials. How can you forget them? You know, the the mechanical rabbit with fake pink fur that relentlessly marches across your TV screen, pounding a big drum.
But this isn’t about bunnies. It’s about that exceedingly large number of politicians out there who seem to think that the world just can’t possibly carry on without them. But be forewarned: I’m gonna’ name names. But, given that this is an exceedingly target rich environment, I’m almost inevitably going to miss far more names than I actually hit.
Crawling off the marriage altar
The Pulitzer Prize winning novel Angle of Repose isn’t about the hard luck lives of a mining engineer and his wife. It’s about not being condemned to repeat the mistakes of your past.
Censorship and social media
The ADL, or any other entity, shouldn’t be allowed to ride herd on the Internet. It should be open to all comers.
Disorder
You like fingernail on the blackboard suspense in your movies? Then check out Disorder.