A post associating a T.S. Eliot quotation, a Tolkien passage, and a Gaiman episode from “American Gods” with ICE’s withdrawal from Minnesota.
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T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Gaiman, and ICE
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged American Gods, Bad Bunny, ICE, Lord of the Rings, Macbeth, Neil Gaiman, T.S. Eliot, Waste Land, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Bad Bunny’s Trees, Olympic Athletes
Two items: Bad Bunny’s trees compared to the Tolkien’s Ents and an Olympic skier compared to Icarus.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Conor Ryan, Donald Trump, Ents, Icarus, Lord of the Rings, Oscar Wilde Comments closed
Standing Up to Trump’s Nazgul
Battling Trump feels eerily like the hobbits battling Sauron.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, ICE deportations, Lord of the Rings Comments closed
Peter Thiel, Palantir, and Sauron
In May, 2025 former Palantir employees warned that the company was becoming a Sauron-esque force for evil—in essence, resembling the crystal stone after which it was named.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Lord of the Rings, Palantir, Peter Thiel, power corrupts, Terry Pratchett Comments closed
Oct. 18, No Kings Day: Arise, Now, Arise
White House advisor and resident fascist Stephen Miller has been playing Wormtongue to old and demented Trump.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, Fascism, Lord of the Rings, Stephen Miller Comments closed
Childhood Confusion: Reading to the Rescue
Continuing on with my “A Life in Literature,” I look at some of the works that impacted me when I was 8-12. These include authors Lewis, Tolkien, Burnett and Shakespeare.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged C. S. Lewis, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Hobbit, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Lord of the Rings, memoir, Narnia, Silver Chair, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Pratchett on the Excitement of Invention
Pratchett’s “Raising Steam” highlights the vibrancy of invention and also the importance of a multicultural society in making new inventions work.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged inventors and inventions, Lord of the Rings, multiculturalism, Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett Comments closed
Trump-Musk, Sauron-Saruman
Think of Trump as Sauron and Musk as Saruman in their recent tiff.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged corruption, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion Comments closed
A Partial Defense of Ayn Rand
In this Bulwark article, a writer says that Silicon Valley tech bros, while they admire Ayn Rand’s heroes, resemble more her villains.
Posted in Ayn Rand Also tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk, Fountainhead, Lord of the Rings, Marc Andreesen, Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley tech bros Comments closed