Tag: books
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TAPA # 244 The Neanderthal Waltz
Today I was reading Sapiens, a gift from my grandson, and listening to an NPR interview with a longtime Pentagon journalist discussing the state of our military under Hegseth. Suddenly, the two narratives converged, offering an illuminating perspective on the disaster unfolding in our government. In the chapter “An Animal of No Significance,” Yuval Noah Harari…
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TAPA # 241 AMERICA’S king Learie
King Lear is a tragic play by William Shakespear about an aging British monarch whose pride and poor judgment lead to the destruction of his family and kingdom. While the details of King Lear do not exactly comport with our wannabe king Learie’s, the impact and outcome are very similar. Just as Lear mistakes flattery for love and honesty…
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TAPA # 157 NUREMBERG TWO
• 1984: The government rewrites reality, invents enemies, and uses propaganda to justify torture, disappearance, and execution.• The Trial: A man is arrested and prosecuted by a faceless legal system in which guilt is assumed.• Darkness at Noon: Based on Stalin’s purges, where victims are coerced into confessing to invented crimes.• Fahrenheit 451: The state suppresses dissent by destroying…
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TAPA # 147 THE SODFATEHR
To use the technical term Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey used to describe the Sodfather’s, the couch-pervert Vance’s, and the Barbie-Doll Secretary of DHS’s explanation for why ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed a 37-year-old American citizen, church member, poet, and mother of a now-orphaned six-year-old child: it is BS. Instead of waiting for a proper investigation, out…
