This Blogger grew up in Brooklyn,during the  twilight years of the Brooklyn Dodgers; with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the series, he has received tons of emails from the old  Brooklyn gang, waxing Proustian on the Golden Years. Readers, one must remember Nostalgia in America was invented by boys who grew up rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers; there was no nostalgia before us…who wanted to remember the Great Depression? or World War II? Brooklyn had its own newspaper, THE BROOKLYN EAGLE, and its own professional baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers. This Blogger is writing this lineup without notes, from pure memory. He can still remember the lineup of te Brooklyn Dodgers during their twilight years. 1B-Gil  Hodges silent, powerful, Indiana boy who came to Brooklyn, married a sweet Italian girl and could be seen shopping at the local A&P….but just wave, don’t bother him. 2B-Junior Gilliam- good enough to have replaced Jackie Robinson at second base. SS...

Imperial Russia, in 1917, was using the Julian calender; therefore this is the 100th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.  Under the Gregorian Calendar, the 100th anniversary is on November 7th. When a Revolution of the 99% comes, because of the Greed of the 1%, we know from history what happens to the 1% . Members of princely/noble houses, the 1%, killed during the Russian Revolution, Alexander Freiherr von Troskow  born on 30 September 1895 and died in Russia 1917/20. Michael Freiherr von Troskow  born on 11 December 1900 and died in Russia 1917/20. Georg Freiherr von Troskow  born on 27 June 1903 and died in Russia 1917/20. Prince Otar Geogievich Amilakhvari , executed by the Bolsheviks in 1924. Prince Nikolai Teimurazovich Amilakhvari , executed by the Bolsheviks in 1923. Prince Aleksander Simonovich Andronikov , executed by the VChka in 1923. Prince Geogrii Mikhailovich Agiashvili , died in 1937 during a reprisal. HSH Prince Adam Jan Kasimierz S...

2017 is the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s Death; in commemoration,every intellectual magazine or/and review, every pseudo-intellectual rag, every faux intellectual blog is commenting on her. She was a recluse; she was as nuts as Emily Dickinson; she was a feminist; she was proto-feminist; she was anti-woman; she was a mouthpiece for the oppressive gentry; she was secretly married; she was poisoned. Jane Austen endures for one reason and one reason only; she is THE GREATEST WRITER in recorded history who believes in HAPPY ENDINGS. This Blogger is a big fan of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, with the caveat that if DARCY were not so phenomenally rich, ELIZABETH BENNET would not give him a second look. This Blogger’s favorite Austen novel is PERSUASION; who among us has not wanted to go back and revisit the true love they have rejected, waiting for something better, or despoiled, that true love waiting for something better? As long as Mankind needs to believe in HAPPY ENDINGS and SECO...

The two most interesting recent theologians  have to be Billy Graham, who found God the old fashion way, in the desert around Joshua Tree, California, and  Father  Teilhard de Chardin. Teilhard de Chardin was a  French Jesuit priest, who was trained as a paleontologist and geologist.  In Science, he helped discover the the ancient Peking man. In theology, he developed the concept of OMEGA POINT, the maximum level of complexity and consciousness which he believed the universe was evolving. The Jesuit believed that the Universe was evolving toward a complete understand of God. He developed the concept of noosphere,  “ a postulated sphere or stage of evolutionary development dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships . "   Billy Graham offered and offers the fun, the joy, the Amazing Grace  of believing in God, the fun which comes from spirituality.  The French Jesuit’s basic tenet was that the true purpose of s...

Abba Eban,  the brilliant Israeli diplomat, once offered up this devastating insight into   the Arab mind set: “ The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity". Except perhaps now-“…… Palestinians in east Jerusalem are applying for Israeli citizenship in hopes of swapping their vulnerable status as mere city residents for the rights and ease of travel that come with an Israeli passport. The citizenship debate reflects the unsettled status of Jerusalem’s 330,000 Palestinians who make up 37% of the city’s population 50 years after Israel captured and annexed the eastern sector……asking for an Israeli passport still carries the stigma of implied acceptance of Israeli control, and only about 15,000 Palestinians have requested one since 2003; of those, fewer than 6,000 were reportedly approved……Israel’s 1967 annexation of east Jerusalem opposed by most of the world did not come with an offer of automatic citizenship for the tens of thousands of Palestinia...