Christie’s Bridgegate scandal is beginning to look like “The Maltese Falcon.”
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Is Bridget Kelly a Femme Fatale?
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Bridgegate, Bridget Kelly, Chris Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Maltese Falcon Comments closed
The Opening of Eyes Long Closed
A Salman Rushdie short story and a David Whyte poem lead to insights into the story of Jesus and the blind man.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Christianity, Islam, Jesus and the blind man, New Testament, Prophet's Hair, Salman Rushdie, Spirituality Comments closed
Bat Waits for Ball to Mate
The start of the baseball season calls for this fine May Swenson poem.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Analysis of Baseball", Baseball, May Swenson, opening day, Sports Comments closed
Rumsfeld through the Looking Glass
Interviewing Donald Rumsfeld is like entering Alice’s looking glass world.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Lewis Carroll, war rhetoric Comments closed
Whither Flight MH370? Shangri-La?
The disappearance of MH370 momentarily led me to fantasize that the passengers had ended up in Shangri La.
Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships
Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "All that Rises Must Converge", "Daddy", "Letter to a Dead Father", Aeschylus, Brothers Karamazov, D. H. Lawrence, Euripides, Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hamlet, King Lear, Medea, Midsummer Night's Dream, Oedipus, Oresteia, parents and children, Phillip K. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Richard Shelton, Romeo and Juliet, Sons and Lovers, Sophocles, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)
A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Mother to Son", Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Francis Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Golden Bowl, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Huckleberry Finn, Langston Hughes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Mark Twain, Parent-child relationships, Silas Marner, Tempest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Female Freedom Drives Right Crazy
Euripides “The Bacchae” well describes rightwing legislators obsessed with abortion.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Abortion, Bacchae, Euripides, reproductive rights, right to life Comments closed
Chaucer’s Riff on the Woman at the Well
Seen in the light of the Samaritan woman at the well, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is one of Christ’s messengers.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Geoffrey Chaucer, Jesus, New Testament, Wife of Bath's Tale, Woman at the well Comments closed
