“Paradise is a place of contentment, a land of luxury and fulfillment containing ever-lasting bliss. Paradise is often described as a "higher place", the holiest place, in contrast to this world, or underworlds such as Hell.” DEI stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. What DEI really means is an alliance between rebellious, oppressed white women and minority SAMMY GLICKS, against the toxic masculinity of white males; those white males who were not only Nazis and Communists but those males who defeated the Nazis and the Soviets. DEI  not only gives the present of a Western  society to this alliance, but also the future of the society to this alliance. DEI Paradise not only gives the present and future to this alliance but also the past to this alliance. Josie Rourke, the female British film Director, directed the historical drama, MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS; she filled the 16th Century Royal Scottish Court of Mary, Queen of Scots with Black actors; even though none of the Lor

  This Blogger has an emotional and familial connection to Columbia University, in New York City. As Readers of this Blog know; this Blogger is a very late child. When he was born, he had two brothers, a generation older than he. One fought  the Nazis in Italy and Southern France; one fought the Imperial Japanese on Saipan. In fact the inside family joke was that this Blogger was conceived; in case one of his brothers did not come back from the  war. Very Sparta. The Saipan brother came home, and used his G.I. Bill to obtain his Bachelors and Masters from Columbia University. One of his proudest memorabilia was his diplomas, signed by the then President of the university, General Dwight David Eisenhower. In was through my brother’s good graces, that this Blogger got to meet Kerensky, the  revolutionary head of the democratic Provisional government of pre-Bolshevik  Russia; who had Lenin in his power and yet did not execute him, dooming millions to horrific fates. Kerensky was very Joe

  In May, 2024, there is much talk that America's democracy is in a fraught and perilous position. Perhaps. But not as fraught or as perilous as in May, 1863; when the Union General, the Commander of the Army of the Potomac, "Fighting Joe" Hooker, declared that; after he defeated the Confederates, he would assume the role of Napoleon, and march on Washington D.C. to overthrow the government and declare himself a military dictator. Hooker had a plan.  In May, 1863, one of the most significant battles in American history, was fought; the Battle of Chancellorsville, in which the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E Lee, defeated the Union Army of the Potomac under General Joseph “Fighting Joe” Hooker. 1-The battle is significant on a purely military level for it was an astonishingly stunning victory by Robert E. Lee, against all odds, an American Agincourt, a victory of the  few over the many. If you consider Robert E. Lee an American General, (and h

    May 6th is Orson Welles' birthday.   His life is one of the great and insightful case studies in the psychology of God. To this Blogger, God is the original inspiration for the film, the INVISIBLE MAN. God is the invisible entity; we cannot see him in our lives, but just like the people in the film, we can see God’s tracks in the snow, in the lives of men. The trick is to discern which tracks are manmade and which are His. The key to our understanding of the universe is that He does leave tracks. The following case study helps us define the nomenclature of the Invisible God leaving visible tracks in the snow: the fall of Orson Welles. ORSON WELLES. This Blogger suggests one read the Orson Welles biography written by Simon Callow (the actor who was the subject of the Funeral in FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL). It seems Welles was unbelievably lucky until a certain point in his life, almost anointed. His upbeat fate included the stage success of the Mercury Theater, the radio phenom