THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN SOCIETY As I approach graduation (again) from Community College in Social Service Work, I have gradually come to the realisation that I have been able to discern, throughout my 20 years as a Tour…
THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN SOCIETY As I approach graduation (again) from Community College in Social Service Work, I have gradually come to the realisation that I have been able to discern, throughout my 20 years as a Tour…
MY ‘SMART PHONE’ MAKES ME FEEL STUPID: BUT THEN AGAIN, I GUESS THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE EXERCISE! I was lying on the couch this afternoon on a grey and drizzly December afternoon as we near year’s end, contemplating…
AMERICA IS AT WAR WITH HER VERY SOUL: UNCLE SAM AND LADY LIBERTY ARE HAVING A DOMESTIC DISPUTE As 2016 draws to a close and the upcoming American Inauguration approaches, I am pausing to reflect upon the very Herculean task…
A REASSESSMENT OF DONALD TRUMP’S BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: NEW YORK TIMES COVERAGE OF TRUMP RALLIES REVEALS TO ME THE PRESENCE OF THE WORST ELEMENTS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY LURKING WITHIN THE TRUMP CAMP. …
DONALD TRUMP : THE BELL WEATHER WHO HAS GIVEN VOICE TO A MULTITUDE OF HERETOFORE UNSPOKEN AND TABOO GRIEVANCES OF AMERICANS WHICH, IN THE POSTMODERN, POST-INDUSTRIAL SECULAR PROGRESSIVE WORLD OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND ‘REVERSE PROGRESSIVE TYRANNY’, HAS TOUCHED OFF A POWDER…
THE CLIMATE CHANGE DOUBTERS: HOW MUDDYING THE WATERS WITH UNCERTITUDE KEEPS THE WORLD FROM ADDRESSING A VERY REAL PROBLEM BY DOUBTING THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE! (SOUNDS LIKE AN OLD DRUNK IN DENIAL ACTUALLY! HO…
PRINCESSES AND TRIGGER HAPPY VIDEO GAME BOYS ON SKATEBOARDS AND BMXS: HOW CONSUMER CULTURE HAS CORRUPTED AND KILLED THE CULTURE OF LIFE AND FAMILY AND ENGENDERED A TOXIC CULTURE OF UNREALISTIC FAIRYTALES, DEATH AND DOOM. I was thinking this afternoon…
WESTERN CIVILIZATION HAS MADE US SICK, POOR, FAT AND STUPID: ‘WHERE DO WE GO NOW’ FROM HERE SWEET CHILD OF MINE? David Lee Roth had a song in 1987 off of his ‘Skyscraper’ album called ‘two fools born a minute’,…
HOW MEDIA AFFECTS OUR BEHAVIOUR I remember a time when 13-14 year old girls in North America most certainly did NOT talk like Valley Girls from Encino CA. The game-changer which altered the lay of the land was in 1983,…
DONALD TRUMP: THE BULL IN THE CHINA SHOP AT CENTRAL CASTING. I was watching CBC News Network, alternately with CNN last night with my friend having control of the remote, and as the commercials waxed and waned, he kept switching…