seanessay.com Headnote: On May 20 Belle of the Ranch made a sensible Youtube addressing my Footnote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBs0iKJlgaY No essay today, because I sent a letter to my member of parliament. Greetings, (Of course I haven’t bothered e-mailing anyone in the British Embassy or the Brit government, as that is above my pay grade) Regarding the […]
I Grew Up During the Dangerous Space Age
seanessay.com The term “moon shot,” back when most rocket engines exploded (seriously), was once a slang term for something as nearly impossible as completing a Hail Mary (Project) pass in football. As I write this, the Artemis II , far beyond the space station, is speeding around the moon with not “the usual three astronauts” […]
Trump Craziness Comes to Canada
seanessay.com We Canadians are normally plain and sensible, but sometimes a wind of madness blows in from south of the border. When the United States went crazy, during the Vietnam years, the editor of the local University of Calgary student newspaper did an editorial for Remembrance Day. He said our soldiers in the trenches in […]
Don’t Buy the Brooklyn Peace Bridge From the Kremlin
seanessay.comToday I will post a clip of a trumpet playing during Navalny’s funeral. This week we learned that Navalny, safely off in a penal colony, or so I thought, was killed by the Kremlin, using a toxin not found in Europe, never found there (because of diet) in any captive animal. We are talking of […]
What Secrets Are We Not Seeing?
seanessay.com I recently read how some cultures don’t have words for certain colours, and can’t perceive those colours. I guess it’s like how folks looking through microscopes at cells didn’t see that little dot of a nucleus, not until after someone wrote about it in a magazine. Even then, not everyone included the dot in […]
Romans Lost Their Republic As Virtue Fell to Vice
My dad’s 1930’s schoolboy history books dwelt on Rome. My childhood memory of the texts might be wrong, but… Seeing US politics, I am remembering an ancient Roman governor of Sicily, Gaius Verrus, a most despicable man. I would invite you to think of Fred Flintstone’s world, for the Romans had a world like Fred’s, […]