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 University of Calgary student newspaper did an editorial for Remembrance Day. He said our soldiers in the trenches in WWI […]
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, […]
Poisonous Fruits of an -Ism
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 […]
Whining About Trump is for Wimps
seanessay.com My favourite Republican is “The Governator,” the former state governor of California. On a web sound bite recently, I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger say with emphasis, “Don’t whine!” Perhaps he thought whiners are without hope. Ya, but Arnie himself has spoken on YouTube, in fact once I linked to his words about Ukraine. You may […]