by Jeff Stookey | Sep 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Legislative restrictions on teaching science and history can lead to anti-science attitudes and racism in voting laws. In my Medicine For The Blues trilogy I tried to give a full picture of the era of the early 1920s by including details about many aspects of the...
by Jeff Stookey | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
January 6th insurrection violence The coup d’etat by the violent mob of insurrectionists in Washington, DC, on January 6th, 2021, failed. Mark Danner’s article “Reality Rebellion” (in the July 1, 2021 issue of The New York Review of Books; see References below)...
by Jeff Stookey | May 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix “Mayday! Mayday!” America and its democracy are in need of help. “Mayday!” as a distress signal was first used in 1923, when air traffic between England and France increased over the English Channel. Communications were...
by Jeff Stookey | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man (2020) makes it clear that Donald Trump was emotionally abused by his father. Martin Pengelly’s review of this book [bold type indicates reference below] points...
by Jeff Stookey | Jan 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Movies Those of you who have known me for several decades remember that I was obsessed with movies and filmmaking for the first half of my life. During that time I completed a few short films, most significantly a collection of four linked shorts titled Western...
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