Richard Oxman

That Peace Train Track

Something good has begun Oh, I've been smiling lately -- Cat Stevens There is environmental degradation under Trump, for sure. However, it would be a major mistake to think that things were better under…

 The Most Fortunate Soul on Earth

"The Beatitudes of Jesus are a new and revolutionary model of happiness that contradicts what is usually communicated by the media and prevailing wisdom." -- Pope Francis in his Message…

Searing Scenario in Seraing for All of Us

Special note: Don't read about any of the films mentioned here prior to watching them. This "review" won't spoil anything. "I remember loving The Promise over twenty years ago." -- Annapurna Tosca Sriramarcel…

My Question Is… What Is It?

Special note: I humbly and respectfully ask that if the good people of La Puente, California read this article that they understand I don't mean to denigrate them. As indicated…

White Rose Alone in America

"The only girl I've ever loved was born with roses in her eyes...." -- Jeff Mangum Spoiler Alert: With virtually all reviews of films readers should be warned. This is no exception. That…

The Enabler From Heaven

"Like the Platters said so long ago, only you can make the darkness bright." -- Annapurna Tosca Sriramarcel With 105 Cruise missiles costing about $1.4 million each, $147,000,000 was blown away with…

Generic Earth Day

  "Earth Day has become a very general celebration festooned with music, food and feeling good about being with others who are politically correct, acknowledging the importance of Mother Earth…

A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Wrap

"That film is a piece of fiction. And through the struggle for independence Gandhi’s greatest antagonist was Dr. Ambedkar. He doesn’t even make an appearance in the film. He doesn’t…

 Death of the Word: A is for Ox

"Barry Sanders' book is a brilliant, disturbing reflection on the collapsing moral order of post-modern America. If literacy is the wellspring of selfhood, as Sanders makes clear, our aggressive, image-addicted…

An Even Greater Watershed in History

  "What Upton Sinclair accomplished the year that Adolf Hitler became the Fuehrer of Germany should inspire everyone around the world." -- Annapurna Tosca Sriramarcel "Twenty-four EPIC candidates, among them…

For Giving Universe

"I know that you're job-hunting at present and/or looking to volunteer with non-profits. If your article gets posted, it'll stand to undermine your chances of being brought on board in…

Good Sick Jokes or Drugs?

Twenty years ago, geologist Mark Crawford came out with his Toxic Waste Sites: An Encyclopedia of Endangered America, listing the 1300 Superfund sites that -- as the worst pollution locations…

 Dramatic Lime for the Slime

"Do something fresh, Richard, for God's sake!" -- Lorraine Hansberry, an atheist, to the author in the early sixties... when he was a young instructor of Dramatic Art Let's have a new…

 Or Something Similar

  "His vision, from the constantly passing bars has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else." -- from Rilke's The Panther I've worked, recruited, organized and serviced -- in various…

 Addressing Adiposity

  "You can't deal with obesity without dealing with poverty and nutrition, and too few educators and parents are getting those connections. It's not enough to put food on the…

 The Yoke on Bill Murray

"Excuse me, Mr. Murray?" "Yes?" "I just, I just... I just think you're the best!" "Well, kid, then you've got to get out more." -- an exchange which took place…

 And the Angels Will Sing….

  "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies?" -- Rainer Maria Rilke The first time I was in Savannah, Georgia -- which was around the…

Black Panther vs. Black Panthers

  "A few of the major textbooks don’t even mention the Black Panthers, while most give the organization only a sentence or two. Even the small number that do devote…

Nothing’s Changed For Me

Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose.  Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loose. Troy was in trouble in 2011. Innocent, but on Death…

On Our Arthritic Snail’s Pace

 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) is a process by a United States government commission to increase United States Defense Department efficiency by planning the end of the Cold War realignment and closure of military installations. More than 350 installations have been…

 Until

Joan: I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God. Robert: They come from your imagination. Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come…

This Is Not A Drill

  The recent "mistake" in Hawaii which sent many people running for cover, as if they could actually protect themselves from an incoming ballistic missile from North Korea pushed my…

Sinful

  I'm in with the in crowd I go where the in crowd goes I'm in with the in crowd And I know what the in crowd knows -- opening…

How Does One Process That?

  The decision to try the leading Nazis at Nuremberg meant developing a system of due process, providing them with defense attorneys and, it has often been forgotten, with access…

The Poor Can Teach Us

  "He looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. He said, 'Truly I…

Not Much Of A Choice

  "Teaching children to acclimate is necessary to some degree, of course, but that currently comprises well over ninety per cent of educational effort 'cross the country, 'cross the board.…

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