We may wish that he would long be gone, but he’s hard to erase. The damage he has done to our national psyche is enormous. We elected a common real estate broker with a limited belief in democracy to be the leader of our land, and nothing will ever be the same again.
Author: Christopher Burke
Shakira nails Putin
Here’s how Shakira might put Putin – our present-day world pariah – in his place. And here, too, is how that very same Putin might feel, shamed, hearing himself belittled in one song with billions more than the billions that have watched Shakira’s Waka Waka see him as a wuss.
The Fairness Party
With the recent open distribution of ChatGPT, a new chatbot from OpenAI, all kinds of predictions as to the imminent death of the world as we know it have come forward and run rampant. This is the end of the college essay; The College Essay is Dead, the Atlantic.
Is Putin Russia, and Russia Putin?
Yet, could it be that Putin really represents Russia? I found myself thinking in Rome. Could it be that Russians in general could care less about Ukraine? Just maybe, I found myself thinking. Is Putin the true champion of a Russia anathema to our Western view of civilization?
Doing the world a world of good
Just a few moments ago in our elastic present-day concept of time here at home, we had the hotel magnate, Trump, as our elected leader, influencing our daily lives like a twin Putin autocrat.
In life-altering decision for the nation, the US Taliban bans rock and roll *
In a flurry of activity, the US Taliban, once known as the Supreme Court of Our Lands, has announced another in of its nation-altering faith-based decisions. Rock and roll will no longer be tolerated.
Old as the Hills
Age is a moveable number determined by our internal joie de vivre quotient, or so we are often told. According to this premise, we are just as old as we feel. Our true age may be 75 or 85, but we might still prefer to be 50 or 60 in our mind’s eye.
War, huh (good God y’all) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
War, huh (good God y’all) / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing / Say it, say it, say it / War (uh-huh), huh (yeah, huh) / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing, / Listen to me
Back in the USSR
In 1959, Chuck Berry had a hit with a song called Back in the USA, a rock ‘n roll propelled love anthem to America.
Venezuela: Ukraine comes home to roost
And yet, quietly, and somewhat menacingly to a distracted US, Russia has in recent years again begun to spread its tentacles into the economic heart of one of our neighbors immediately to our south.