seanessay.com By “ism” I don’t mean Islam—or perhaps I do, (and not all isms are bad)—I mean any belief system that approaches tyranny over the minds of man. There are lots of isms. My university had a weekly Marxist-Lenninist study group—yes, like in the Sheryl Crow song—where the students were as sincere as the Christian […]
Three Truths in JournalismVille that I Know for Sure
seanessay.com Student Karla Krahn, at the University of Calgary Student Union building, in the Women’s Collective and Resource Center, in a conversation with Sean, “Once you start accepting responsibility, there’s no going back.” … For 2025, I know only three things for sure: One: If laboratory rats can eat it, then it may cause cancer. […]
My Angry Comment Earned Her Reply
seanessay.com Three posts back, I documented madness: I noted that the number of measles cases is greater in the Province of Alberta than in the entire US of A, cases that could have been prevented by vaccine. …And this fine (October 3) morning a baby here, having contracted measles in utero, died shortly after birth. […]
I, Landlord
seanessay.com I am a landlord. I smiled as Chief Engineer Pelia on the starship Enterprise said, “I still have a bunker in Vermont, where I used to live, in case this no-money-socialist-utopia thing turns out to be a fad.” No landlords on Star Trek. … At age 17, escaping to the big city on my […]
Auntie Flo and Younger Lover
At drop-in Free Fall Writing we chuckled at our prompts Auntie Flo and younger lover. People were scandalized as I read aloud. … My Auntie Flora was a character, a dumb blond although her hair was dark. I remember she once telephoned my mother crying that she had done her income tax five times, and […]
About Old Vaccines Being Awful
seanessay.com The Straight Dope dug up memorable public service vaccine cartoons, … I like how folks back in my home town will say collar bone, and shoulder blade. Leave it to the aloof professionals to say clavicle and scapula. From boyhood, I remember well a public service television commercial, animated, with diseases personified, urging us […]