Sympathy for the Donald

The main problem with President Donald J Trump, when you get right down to it, is that Donald Trump set the poor bastard up. The reputation he's given himself, the moral depths he plumbed to get where he's got, left him with such an uphill climb it seems like a bar bet between billionaires. Even…

Off With Her Id!

On revisiting Disney's 1951 "Alice In Wonderland", I was gratified to discover that Alice's journey through her own psyche isn't quite what my youthful memory wants me to think. From the tardy White Rabbit to the maniacal Tweedle twins, from the question-smoking caterpillar to the admittedly insane Cheshire cat, from the drunken shenanigans of the Mad…

Zero Dark Thirty

This 2012 movie, an award-winning critically-acclaimed entertainment and box-office success, is above all a remarkable piece of propaganda. Or maybe marketing is more accurate. Publicizing is even better. If you wonder why, or haven’t seen it, let me spoil the theme for you: Glory be the lengths that **America** will go to, the resources and commitment she will provide, the…