seanessay.com I’ve mentioned before a topic I won’t cover today: how the public has no idea as to how much the current administration is attacking higher education. “Flooding the zone” like a wave of Mongol hordes. Life has changed since the majority of US representatives decided they believed, hook, line and sinker, in “Trumpism.” It’s […]
Not Nolan’s Odyssey; Enjoying Odyssey-5
seanessay.com Here is a clip from an awesome piece about The Odyssey by Victor Hanson Davis, of Stanford University, in the Calgary Sun, January 9, 2021 … we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture… Our current cultural crisis is not from reading too much, but from not reading much of anything at all. Most of […]
Canada Builds a Really Expensive Little Red Hen Bridge
seanessay.com I wrote to my Member of Parliament. Why? As you know, President Donald Trump, despite his bridge treaty—not a deal, a treaty—from back during his first term, despite Canada having paid every penny of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, has engaged in a gratuitous “shakedown” of Canada. The rumour is that Trump did […]
Shrapnel for Epstein, “Practise Chickens” Come Home to Roost
seanessay.com Quoted from memory: A senior army officer gleefully said, about Prime Minister “Maggie” Thatcher participating, just as she would do in a real emergency, during a national emergency exercise: “When we play, Maggie plays!”…. … … …Servicemen dying for Epstein? Really? Maybe so. Here’s a Youtube clip now behind a cookie wall. It was […]
Writing to “Right Honourable” Folks
seanessay.com We have all heard of the angry spouse who argues by dredging up everything but the kitchen sink. Or the stranger you get to talking with, at the A&W or the bar, who turns out to have a long list of grievances, theories, and pet peeves against the government. That’s normal, but when I […]
Philosophy of Bravery and Hope
Here’s some Friday philosophy from Free Fall, where we get a prompt and then write like mad. By “mad” I mean I “wrote my way in” past a stegosaurus. … … Writer prompt- a photograph of bronco named Born Fearless So there I was, camping with my stegosaurus. Such a fearless fellow, no sabertooth wolves […]