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“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players…” – Shakespeare Welcome! A Toast to Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre is my 2011 Magnum Opus. I presented the script as a monologue for my class in Existentialism. Inspired by the great actors Laurence K. Olivier, Baron Olivier and Leonidas Frank “Lon” Chaney, …

Dogs of English rule, pray tell of this God thy bloody tongues cry for. Nonsense! Dare not thee trust God, but play God. Merchants of Sex, Lies, and “Angels of Death” meet your Maker: Burn the Wenches and Impale the Bastards! It is the natural order of things. “. . . and so who are …

“Making your way in the world todayTakes everything you’ve got… Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name…“ Insurrection is the depiction of the January 6th protests. Whether one calls it mutiny, revolution or riot, it is part of America’s history going back to the Founders’ revolt against their King. Funny how these …

The bullshit of red political correctness has too found its way amongst green pastures. So where did this idea of “green” start? “The politics of global warming actually began in Sweden. Not China as most people supposed,” according to Rupert Darwall. Moreover, in his 2017 book Green Tyranny, Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate …

Engaging with Persians living in the West, colleagues, friends and lovers, I have seen and experienced Persia’s beauty and passion! But before one dances “Through the Looking-Glass” of Persia does one really need to first fly down rabbit holes to be surprised? Not so. Learning Farsi is its own sweet reward. U.S. State of Maryland’s …

Watching the 1940 film “Virginia City,” circa U.S. Civil War, brought back memories of my visit to the actual Virginia City in Nevada – eerie feeling of a ghost town’s dead silence. Braving myself, I walked slowly to the grave yard. At first glance, the earth appeared to be rejecting the solid pieces of concrete …

“The importance of economic facts may not be obvious to Americans. ‘What does the fish  know about the water in which it swims?’ asked Albert Einstein … Because they’re not recorded in public memory systems, they cannot be written  up as facts and are, in effect, invisible.  All we have are shadow markets.” – Hernando …

“The alliance between American capitalism and Nazi Germany helped Hitler implement an armaments program that was unprecedented at the time, and to begin the world war in which the Holocaust took place.” – Nadan Feldman DuPont, let’s remind the world of what you’ve done these past hundred years since your founding two centuries ago. In …

“If there were machines which bore a resemblance to our body and imitated our actions…we should always have two very certain tests by which to recognise…they were not real men.” – Descartes In any case, we need to ask ourselves: Who is really the monster? The creature or its creator? Cryonics “captivates the hearts and …

Steve Jobs, the man behind the “iPhone,” is himself a product of a time and an idea of having the “Whole Wide World in your Hands.” A beautiful illusion of how with a “smartphone” you can “hold your life in your hand” – texting and sharing it all. When in reality, it is the toymaker …