seanessay.com My main interest is ethics—what does little old me know about cluster bombs? This week many groups and governments, including Canada, have spoken out against the US giving them to Ukraine. I know that many nations—but not Russia, US and Ukraine—have banned them. Because cluster bombs break into a cluster of smaller bombs that […]
Exciting Government Book
seanessay.com I found an exciting book, The Fifth Risk, about the U.S. federal government, by the same guy who wrote Moneyball (now a movie with Brad Pitt) The Blind Side (Sandra Bullock) The Big Short, exposing the 2008 Wall Street global meltdown (Brad Pitt again) and The Flashboys. (movie rights acquired) This one exposed how […]
Being Judged at the Imperial War Museum
seanessay.com …Fear of the very existence of honest Ukraine impelled violence, for a dictator’s lies always require violence to exist, just as violence always requires lies to exist…From ideas of Solzhenitsyn (Sean Crawford ) A young man asked me, “Do you work here?” (My rucksack and tourist hat were in a locker) I answered “No, but try […]
Russians glum but Joking
seanessay.com Preface In my university not-so-stuffy Latin class, one day, as students entered, I was chuckling to the serious lady next to me. Such fun words in our Latin textbook, such as lycanthrope (werewolf) and one of today’s words, defenestrate. She said earnestly, “I saw that word last night, and I didn’t understand.” Of course […]
Russian says Adults will Wriggle like Eels
seanessay.com Reminder: The Kremlin said the troops were massing for peaceful purposes and would never cross the Ukraine border. In the first weeks of the “special military operation” Russian civilians refused to believe their own relatives who told them Russia was shelling their buildings, and soon the Kremlin said the Ukrainians were shelling themselves. Remember? […]
Passing Milestone 150 amidst Orcs and social media
seanessay.com I’ve driven well past my 150 milestone of blog posts, a white stone that was supposed to signal a “checkpoint time” to see how I was doing. My new goal has been to reduce my number of posts so as to focus on writing fiction instead— as I told my writer’s support group. That […]