TIME MAGAZINE has named TAYLOR SWIFT as PERSON OF THE YEAR, 2023. Taylor Swift not Jonathan Swift. This Blogger understands that Taylor Swift has a very important impact on the culture;  in the firmament of Thighs , as the Great White Hope in White Women Thighs; with the goal being to dethrone  Beyonce’s Black Thighs as the thighs non-pariel in American culture. Ms. Swift is a singer, an entertainer, an actor who was notable in that notable failure of a film, CATS. Ms. Swift has been an economic powerhouse and has inspired  America's  wandering and rootless  young people to register to vote. But she has not won a Nobel Prize for Literature, like  Bob Dylan; nor does her political power match the political or social power of  the singer/actor Metrobius, who held sway over Rome; because he held sway over Sulla. Her selection as the  2023 PERSON OF THE YEAR stunningly reflects the bankruptcy of achievement, endemic in Joe Biden’s 2023 America. In 2023, there are two ruinous wars being

  Back in 2009, this Blogger published a Blog which theorized that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be best understood, within the context of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. Interminable war, events foretold, magic realism turned deadly.   The event foretold, in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, was told to this Blogger, by a Christian Palestinian, over drinks, during the Gulf War, in 1991, in Cairo. This Blogger happened to be in Cairo, on vacation, during that war.   The Palestinian, who was an activist, revealed the Grand Strategy of the Palestinian collective purpose; to wait out the acknowledged brilliant leadership of the Israeli Founding Fathers; then strike when Israel self indulged in stupid leadership.   His theory was that all empires, nations, states, monarchies, autocracies, military juntas, regimes  and peoples, even companies, even artistic disciplines, throw up brilliant clusters of leadership, in a specific period of time. And then, inevitably, stupidity arises t

  As this Blog is being written, the Israel/HAMAS War has been placed on PAUSE; so selected Israel hostages, taken in the HAMAS October 7 th    Murder Raid can be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, held in Israeli jails. Since the October 7 th  HAMAS Murder Raid, the world has learned a few things about HAMAS. First, it is the most ruthless terrorist organization, since the Khmer Rouge and that includes the Taliban and ISIS. Secondly, it is the cleverest, canniest terrorist organization since the heyday of the Irish Republican Army. In geopolitical, geostrategic terms and in public opinion, HAMAS may have already won the war. It has galvanized worldwide opinion against Israel; even though HAMAS slaughtered Israeli elders,  raped Israeli women, butchered Israeli men and mothers and  beheaded Israeli babies in its Murder Raid. In response, all across the globe, masses of protestors want Israel to accept violation, forcing the world to lament the deaths of  Gazan civilians but not the d