Memorandums from Mary
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Prepared for Democracy on the Anniversary of January 6th?
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In Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941) Gary Cooper plays a homeless man who’s used by corrupt forces to control a budding populist movement....
Friday, December 29, 2023
Outside the “Norm,” and Madness
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Benny Russell (Avery Brooks) writes for Incredible Tales, a science-fiction magazine, in 1950s New York in the DS9 episode “Far Beyond the ...
Monday, December 18, 2023
Worshipping "Aryan" Blondness
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Poster promoting the 1936 Berlin Olympics in England and America. It’s amused me that Nazis placed the tall, blond, blue-eyed, square-jawed ...
Saturday, December 9, 2023
So Ye Have Done It to Me
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Mike Johnson became the 59th Speaker of the House on October 25, 2023. When questioned as to his world view, Mr. Johnson commented that all...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Reframing Our Relationship to Life
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Ismael (Richard Basehart) and Queequeg (Friedrich von Ledebur) in the 1956 film version of Moby Dick. “Heathen” Queequeg represented the go...
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