seanessay.com Recently I watched Fox News so you won’t have to. Why? Because I was stuck in a Comfort Inn that had 57 cable channels but no sci fi channel. Where? In Canada’s most red neck province, Alberta, with an oil production like Texas (See Wikipedia) and a landscape the same (see True Grit). Specifically, […]
To Act and React on Right Principles, not like Trump
seanessay.com I wasn’t prepared for what I saw on February 24, three years plus two days after after one man, Putin, launched his “special military operation” in Ukraine, which in reality is a war, although, by law, Russians can get 15 years in prison if they say, “war.” To set the stage: The great educator […]
A Farm Wife, a Banshee, and a Powerful Old Man
Yesterday is relevant again… My favourite Canadian National Film Board movie is a story only six or seven minutes long, in black and white—and it stabbed. Not a story for me to see at bed time, not unless I have a stiff drink at hand, not unless I want to stagger up out of a […]
How Extremist Liberals Make Me Gnash My Teeth
seanessay.com I imagine an “Extremist Liberal” (not you or I) thinking the reason for the old 12-mile limit, for territorial waters, was that countries had calmly, from a sense of fairness, agreed on what would be a proper limit for lobster traps, fishing stocks and so forth—Nonsense! The range of a shore defence cannon was […]
Shock Jock Meets the President
seanessay.com Infamous long haired radio “shock jock” Howard Stern put on a suit for the first time since his daughter’s wedding to interview the president of the United States. I thought both men were sincere. They took about an hour. I am holding back my scheduled post, one that my peers at the C-space building […]
Turning to See By Metaphor
seanessay.com “If the Russians do atomic testing above ground people stay silent, if we do so in a cavern they protest!” an idealist in Camelot, circa 1960 (from memory) … Using fiction and Metaphors of the past one may strive to discern the today of the Near East and Ukraine. Discern, yes, because writers of […]