O.J. Simpson has died; legendary footbll star, cum celebrity Simpson, was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and a young man, ( possibly her lover). His murder trial was the trial of the 20th Century, above the Nuremberg Trials or the Leopold/Loeb Trial. When this Blogger was growing up, men and women lived lives of quiet desperation, leading to many suicides. Quiet suicides, such as sticking one's head in an oven, with the gas on. In 2024, men and women live lives of noisy desperation, leading to unsuccessful suicides, or successful murders, mainly femicides. Alas, this Blogger prefers the era of quiet desperation. The Simpson Saga was  t he bridge between the lingering Eisenhower Era of quiet desperation, and the modern, noisy NETFLIX desperation, with many failed suicides and a lot of murders of former lovers, mainly women.. This Blogger's ancient mother, had survived World War I, the Great Influenza, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression,  World War II, the Korean Wa

  America in 2024 is a strange, thread bare society;  which believes, that because you have an opinion or skill in one field, you are omniscient in all fields. Because this Blogger believes William Tecumseh Sherman, fresh from an insane asylum,  was the best General of the American Civil War, Readers have asked him to suggest which films to watch on Valentine’s Day. And since this Blogger is a 2024 American; he cannot limit his opinions to General Sherman. Here Goes- 1-     RANDOM HARVEST- THE BEST ROMANCE FILM EVER- a 1942 Black and white film, starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson. The plot is totally BONKERS…..and yet, it uplifts the power of devotion in love. 2-     PERSUASION- This Blogger once knew a bona fide natural born killer. He was a tunnel rat during the Vietnam War. His favorite all time novelist was Jane Austen. Why? In his words  “ She is the greatest novelist who has ever lived who believes in happy endings; therefore, by default, she is the greatest novelist ever.”

  It becomes clearer every day; the real problem with the Republic ,is that the Ruling Liberal Elite is incapable of foresight or timely insight.  Their  epiphanies are always late; their epiphanies are always when; the obvious is past obvious. This week, two mainstays of the Liberal Ruling Elite, had untimely epiphanies  about Joe Biden and Mass Migration. How untimely? Gerry Maxey published the same epiphanies  in a December, 2020 Blog.   David Ignatius is a Ruling Elite Whisperer; if one wishes to know what truth, the Ruling Elite has finally stumbled on; he is your man. He is also a columnist for the WASHINGTON POST.   This week, he had an epiphany, about Joe Biden, which shook the Liberal Media to its befuddled and  sycophantic  core;  he published the following:  “ Biden has never been good at saying no.  He should have resisted the choice of Harris, who was a colleague of his beloved son Beau  when they were both  state attorneys general. He should have blocked then-House Speake