Category Archives: peace

Klaatu Barada Nikto

March 3, 2021 – 7:38 pm

Isaac Asimov wrote the three laws of robotics in I ROBOT. 1.) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2.) A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3.) […]

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Kill For The Sake Of Cali

November 10, 2020 – 3:07 pm

GUNGA DIN was one of my favorite movies as a child. The cinematic version of Rudyard Kipling’s poem about an untouchable bisthi or water carrier had elephants, fakirs, religious fanatics, comedy, thrills, and the horror of the Thuggees, who killed the innocent for their multi-armed goddess, Cali.

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Misty Ghosts by Frank Stewart

May 21, 2020 – 7:26 pm

The ghosts behind a mist-drenched window. Who? None need to leave their names. Only the blur of their lives.

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Kent State 1970

May 4, 2020 – 5:55 am

Fifty years ago John Filo snapped an iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot dead by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. I was 17. Richard Nixon had been elected President in 1968 by promising to end the […]

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The War Is Not Over

November 4, 2019 – 2:59 am

President Eisenhower had prevented the USA from becoming involved in the Vietnamese civil war. He was a military man who understood that the military-industrial complex was only interested in profits as well as the logistic strain of transporting troops and weapons halfway around the world to fight support the despised Diem dictatorship. Unfortunately after the […]

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