Memorandums from Mary
Saturday, June 21, 2025
An Old Joke
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Vincent Van Gogh painted his vision of The Good Samaritan in 1890. There’s an old joke about Heaven and Hell. I’ve no idea where this joke c...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Mudsills* vs Blue Bloods
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Trump has set up an altar of sorts in the Oval Office (2025). There is a strong class system in the United States, and a strong prejudice en...
Friday, May 16, 2025
Pre-cancelled?
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Maya Hawke, as Flannery O’Connor, in a scene from the 2023 film Wildcat. I recently discovered Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Culture Wars
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Ostrich with its’ head stuck in the sand. Some of the most fascinating passages in the book Project 2025, are the references to being “woke...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Going Backwards
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In the 1940 A-movie His Girl Friday, Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) is torn between life as a star newspaper reporter, with her editor bo...
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