This Blog is being written on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2023; the day commemorates the SIX (6) million Jews killed by the Nazis, during World War II, the Holocaust. The date was chosen because it marks the date the concentration camp Auschwitz, was liberated from the Nazis by Soviet troops during World War II.   What is shocking, nay appalling, is the rise of anti-Semitism among Americans in 2023; what is shocking is how the righteous Ruling Elite in America intends, to combat this rising anti-Semitism, with platitudes and bromides and with worn out sophomoric appeals to America’s better angels.   Doesn’t the Ruling Elite have any clue about the American character?   Winston Churchill, whose mother was from Brooklyn, knew more about the angels in America than any current American thought leader.   It was Churchill who pegged the American character:  “ You  can  always count on the  Americans to do the right  thing  after they have tried everything else. ”   Americans in 20

This Blogger has an abiding and perhaps defining admiration for American films of the 1940s, 50s,60s, especially film noir and Classical Westerns produced during those years.   Why?   The first reason, perhaps the main reason, is that they were written, in the majority, by men who had seen combat, or participated in war, or had friends and/or relatives in war.   They seemed determined to grapple with the major issues of    Life; such as, when    one bent over to tie one's shoe lace and the bullet meant for him, killed his best friend. Is that personal luck? Random luck?   O r Pre-ordination? If it is pre-ordination, does that mean you must live a life justifying the escape from certain death?   Since most grievously wounded men whine for their mommies, they never produced art like I AM GLAD MY MOM DIED.   They strove to reveal enduring verities, enduring vanities, enduring flaws, and enduring absurdities in the human condition.   Even in the formulaic films; there was always BIG qu