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    Song of the Day #2044

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    June 18, 2023

    Song of the Day: Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag (Parts 1 & 2), words, music, and performance by James Brown, spent 8 weeks at the top of the 1965 R&B charts and was the first Billboard Top 10 hit in the artist’s long career. It also earned Brown his…

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  • Culture, Education, Politics (Theory, History, Now), Religion, Sexuality

    Jackie Goldberg: “Fear is Not Our Friend, Love Is”!

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    June 16, 2023

    As a follow-up to my Medium piece, “Welcome to the Culture Wars: Pride Month Edition!”, check out this impassioned plea for tolerance in our schools from Jackie Goldberg, current President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education for the 5th District. #Pride2023 This was also published on…

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  • Culture, Dialectics, Education, Film / TV / Theater Review, Foreign Policy, Politics (Theory, History, Now), Rand Studies, Religion, Sexuality, Sports

    Welcome to the Culture Wars: Pride Month Edition!

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    June 11, 2023

    This article also appears on Medium and on C4SS. The Woke Nightmare That Doesn’t End! It’s in commercials! It’s on storefronts! It’s on social media, on television shows and streaming platforms! We may not be able to define what “woke” is, but, dammit! Like any obscenity, we know it when…

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  • Film / TV / Theater Review, Personal

    My Cousins on 60 Second Docs!

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    June 10, 2023

    These are my cousins on 60 Second Docs … on the magic of Disneyland in the heart of a beautiful family: Alex Gonzales, Henry Gonzales, Sara Gonzales, and Genevieve Teresa Gonzales.

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  • Culture, Education, Personal

    Welcome to Mars, NYC

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    June 8, 2023

    It was like the surface of the Red Planet around here yesterday, as smoke from Canada wildfires turned the NYC skyline to a red-orange hue. The Air Quality Index hit an unprecedented 484 yesterday, giving NYC the most hazardous rating of any city on the planet. Things should improve over…

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  • Education, Politics (Theory, History, Now), Sexuality

    Happy Pride Month!

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    June 1, 2023

    No better time to proclaim it than now!

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  • Education, Personal, Remembrance

    Elizabeth Sciabarra (“Ski”): A Celebration of Life (Video)

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    May 30, 2023

    This presentation was edited, in chronological order, from a collection of videos taken by Frank R. Harrison on May 6, 2023 in the auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High School for “A Celebration of Life“, a tribute to my sister, Elizabeth Ann Sciabarra (aka “Ski”). I’ve also added the full slate…

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  • Music, Remembrance

    Song of the Day #2043

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    May 24, 2023

    Song of the Day: What’s Love Got to Do With It, words and music by Graham Lyle and Terry Britton, was the biggest selling single ever released by Tina Turner, who took it to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. The song was also the title of a…

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  • Culture, Dialectics, Elections, Fiscal Policy, Politics (Theory, History, Now)

    DWR (12): The NYC “Warzone”

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    May 22, 2023

    As we move closer to the 2024 election, it is only natural that we are entering the Period of Hyperbole. That’s a polite way of saying the Period of Hypocrisy, Twisted Logic, and Outright Lies. The Right-Wing Attack on New York I’m one of those born and bred New Yorkers…

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  • Culture, Politics (Theory, History, Now), Rand Studies, Religion, Sexuality

    DWR (11): Trans Hysteria

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    May 15, 2023

    Recently, I had a public Facebook dialogue with my friend, Ryan Neugebauer, on the growing hysteria surrounding Trans issues, especially among people in Randian and right-libertarian circles who dismiss any discussion of “gender identity” as yet another example of left-wing “woke” politics. It is so prolific in Facebook discussions that…

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