REVOLUTION. A Martin J. Ryan VIEWPOINT. Remember this one? Read John Adams, regarding his Thoughts on Government in 1776: Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, […]
Globalization: The New World Order. A Martin J. Ryan VIEWPOINT. What lies beyond the thrust of this Free Trade article is the inevitable growth of robotic automation replacing human labor in the not too distant future, which may result in an escalation in social upheaval. The phrase I […]
A MARTIN J. RYAN VIEWPOINT: Oh empathy, empathy, where art thou? Help me, Adam Smith, for Business Has No Flag. Recently I’ve noticed a particular conservative response to complaints regarding the lack of empathy for today’s inequality and the resultant gap between the rich and the rest: middle […]
A Martin J. Ryan VIEWPOINT. QUID PRO QUO Clintons, Obama, Bilderbergers Not your friends and neighbors. Preface: (Since the names Obama & Clinton appear so frequently in the following text, the fault lies not with me, but with them. Having had to suppress whatever liberal tendencies they may […]
The Middle East The Natural Order– ISIS– A MARTIN J. RYAN VIEWPOINT: From Rome, Alexander, Jesus, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire, T. E. Laurence and the Arabs in WWl; to Bush/Cheney and ISIS. My interpretation: The natural order of things is unfeeling calculation. It is a lion’s cost […]
A MARTIN J. RYAN VIEWPOINT: We are alone in that whatever happens to our planet is our responsibility, whether we choose to accept this or not. In order to put this in perspective, imagine a superior intelligence from a remote star system making observations about us and our […]
A MARTIN J. RYAN VIEWPOINT: (And later, check MOMS DEMAND ACTION: http://www.momsdemandaction.org/) THE 2nd AMENDMENT SCAM Guns Are Made For Shooting And Killing. Think about it. While target practice might be fun, it is for shooting more accurately. In the end, killing more accurately. I am angry. If […]
Big Brother– Snooping— Last night I had this really nutsy dream that I just gotta tell you about. I know this is exceedingly difficult to imagine, but in my dream the digital world did not exist. Nuts, huh? Anyway, there was this Federal Security Bureau, aka the FSB. […]
A BIO STORY — Tess. The Bronx. 1934 A love story. The dialogue is reconstructed, but this bio excerpt is true. Earlier, in more prosperous times, my grandmother had a governess named Tess, who in turn became my mother’s governess. But then there was the Great Depression: Six […]
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