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Reza Pahlavi, son of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, former Shah of Iran, exiled to and harbored by the United States after the 1979 Islamic revoluti

'We shall return', said Pahlavi using the royal we from his suburban Washington home, sampling the Caspian Sea caviar which made its way through the American sanctions to his table.

#iran #reza pahlavi #persian empire

President Trump and advisors - Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Secretary of Energy (needed to weigh in on Iran's oil), Secretary of th

President Trump should finish the job he started and should not hesitate to completely destroy the ruling theocratic junta, devastate its civilian and military infrastructure, and bring the country to its knees - exactly as America did with Japan in World War II.

#war #iran war #hiroshima #civil war

Belinda Harper was getting on in age, not so old as to be forgotten, but with enough bark coming off the tree that it was time to act. The

She convinced herself that she still held fast to progressive principles. It might look like she had moved right; but her inner self was unbowed. It was just the Florida sun.

#social commentary #politics #progressives

The Left was horrified at the pictures of the transformation of the South Lawn of the White House into a a wrestling ring. If the construct

The Trump presidency was a long time coming; but finally the real America, the bougie arm candy and tinsel one, is finally on display.

#social commentary #american culture #donald trump

In Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, the Broadway 50s musical based on Romeo and Juliet , a boy and girl from two opposing gangs, one

What was she doing in the first place? She was no different than her progressive sisters loving pho and tacos and calling it diversity. She was screwing stereotypes instead of just talking about them, but that was only a difference in modality

#social commentary #race #ghetto #progressivism #diversity

Vicki Barnes lived in the city and told everyone it was 'for the diversity'. It was comforting and satisfying, she said, to be able to eat

Vicki had indeed become a suburban mom, but not just any one. Rather than the caricature of the American suburb - settled, predictable, uninspiring, and insular - Lanier was the new American model. Diversity exchanged for universal excellence. Intellectual homogeneity, high standards, and cultural unity

#diversity #asian #confucius #progressives

The times are changing in America - old cant replaced by new, statues once removed, replaced, one zeitgeist exchanged for another; but perha

And so it was that the days of feminism, sexual diversity, inclusivity, and uxoriousness ended not with a bang but a whimper, faded into the background, then into history, then forgotten forever. Wilberforce never considered himself unusual, neither pioneer nor counter-revolutionary, just a man who loved women.

#social commentary #sexuality #feminism #machismo #casanova

Harvey Stillson was an ordinary man living an ordinary life. In it there was no drama, no outbursts, no recriminations. It was a patiently

However the die had been cast as a boy growing up, set in stone given no chance to be black, stuck in whiteness and fidelity.

#black men #white men #sexuality

Harpers Notch, Illinois a small town on the Mississippi River, Huckleberry Finn country. It was nowhere in particular and of no special note

Some critics claim that the rise of coaching has to do with America - the nastiness, divisiveness, chaotic blackness demand a focus on the inner self. Others say that it is indeed America and its long history of con artists and shell game masters.

#coaching #therapy #new age #snake oil salesman

The Devil in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov asks, ' What would life be without me?', and quickly answers, 'It would be holy, but tediou

Con men, scams, Ponzi schemes, shell games have been part and parcel of America since the days of the Founding Fathers. Lying, cheating, and deception are not just an American thing, but the Wild West, anything goes, a sucker is born every minute mentality is truly a feature of the American ethos.

#social commentary #lying #con men #america

Bob Muzelle woke up one day - the kind of summer day that inspired Shakespeare, a day of warmth, sunshine, fair winds, and the promise of lo

The dam had broken, and long-simmering, long-stifled abominable presumptions burst forth. What was he doing trying to reform a world which had never changed from its Hobbesian vision of being 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'?

#social commentary #social reformer #doing good #progressives

Alicia Barton had never intended anything more than making her way; and certainly not walking the halls of the Capitol, hand in hand with on

The world is filled with ambitious women who want control, but it was beneath Alicia to want things so pedestrian, so predictably ordinary, so common. She rode above Nietzsche's herd, alone, tireless in her ambition, and a perfect fit for the command of others.

#social commentary #nietzche #women #shakespeare #henrik ibsen

Vladimir Putin has made no bones about his desire to restore the greatness of Russian Imperial history, the history of the Tsars, the royal

Arnold was cancelled for anti-democratic sentiments; but he never gave an inch to multiculturalism. Neither a Cassandra nor a voice crying out in the wilderness, he was simply suspicious of received wisdom and the cant it allows.

#social commentary #politics #imperialism

Rebecca Fielding was unhappy about the concentration of wealth in America. Too many haves and far too many have nots. As a good socialist

Trump has had all they ever wanted - wealth, women, yachts, and la dolce vita. They, squirreled away in their carrels, on marches, in conferences, and in confessionals, have had none of it and can only dream of such abandon. A life of good causes is dire, gloomy, and dark.

#social commentary #politics #progressives #trump

Henry Badger had grown up on meat and potatoes, Mom's pot roast, canned peas, and peach cobbler, and loved it. Dinner was part of the day no

Not only did Henry resign from haute cuisine, he left New York, another metaphor for his retraction from upscale clutter. He didn't go back to Bolivar - that would have been a stretch - but he did move to somewhere smaller, more livable, and above all uncluttered.

#social commentary #foodies #haute cuisine

Bridget Pitcher fixed the last of the cucumber sandwiches, poured the unsweet tea into thermoses, and fixed her hair. This was to be the ra

I'll never do that again', she said about her visit to Darktown. She and the Big Tent organizers had to be satisfied with a whites only crowd. 'Just like the old days', said Bridget's 100 year old grandmother who remembered the white settled time before all the diversity hoopla.

#social commentary #progressives #trump

The most liberal Senators in Congress - Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren among them - have three houses, a multi-million dollar bank account

The Senator was beyond suspicion and beyond reproach. If your intention in becoming a politician is to make money like any other entrepreneur, then you spend your time and best efforts in so doing. Governance is simply a matter of covering all bases.

#social commentary #politics

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