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...
by Jeff Stookey | Oct 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
History Conspiracy theories are not new. In the 1920s the KKK spread the doctrine that Catholics and the Pope were trying to take over the US government. This is one of the threads that weaves through my trilogy Medicine for the Blues. As proof that such conspiracy...
by Jeff Stookey | Sep 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
A recent article in The Nation magazine states that QAnon is “closer in spirit to terrorist organizations like the KKK, which had ties to political elites but also instigated extrajudicial violence.”...
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