Month: September 2025

[INTRODUCTION: Salvatore (“Sal”) Hepatica, a 40-year-old bachelor and computer engineer, peered at the mirror in his two-room apartment and smiled. It was the day before Christmas, and Sal had volunteered to play Santa Claus at his nephew’s school. He had spent hours putting on the rented bright red Santa costume, hat, robe, large white beard, and black boots. He chortled at the new appearance of his face; rouged, bearded, overtopped with the stereotopic Santa Bonnet. He had also been required to stuff two pillows into the jacket to mimic Santa’s iconic corpulence. He laughed out loud as he barely recognized himself.

It was early, so Sal decided to pay a surprise visit to his great-aunt Elvira, Epicac, who lived on the route to the holiday event, snickering to himself at the anticipated shock and surprise of the singular appearance of “Santa Claus.” He was nonplussed, however, when he arrived at his aunt’s door, and she immediately said, “Hi, Sal.”

There is merit and fairness in recognizing others for their personal singularity, as contrasted with a possible reductionist perception as stereotypical members of a subjectively perceived categorial group., It is neither empirically accurate nor fair to reductively attribute populist stereotypical characteristics to lawyers, doctors, accountants, and other functionaries, on the facile assumption that they evince certain stereotypical characteristics. John Smith, Esq., is not systemically or intrinsically a lawyer; he is an individual named John Smith, who practices the profession of law.

Indeed, it is unjust reductionist assumptions about other members of human society that have historically catalyzed the virulent and shameful toxicity of racial and ethnic prejudice. Reductionist ideologies of ubiquitous populations of humanity have eternally resulted in misery, tragedy, and shame, Rev.. Martin Luther King sagely advised, “looking to man’s content of character, rather than the color of his skin.” It is an empirical verity that reductive ignorance fuels prejudice of every toxic category.

It is inarguable that the term “immigrant” simply refers to a person from another country intending to reside in our Nation. It does not connote nor encapsulate any conceivable characteristic, positive or negative. Nevertheless, the American Nation has unfortunately been witness to ubiquitous bias regarding Native American, Black, Hispanic, Jewish, and most notably, Mexican and Central American immigrants.

We presume that we have adequately written of our President, the Chief Executive of a Nation, principally populated by immigrants and their progeny, whose repeated public defamation of the entire class of Hispanic immigrants, whom he has never met, is pernicious xenophobia, inhumanely exacerbated by his appointment of a Gestapo-style masked army to arrest, imprison, and banish to foreign torture prisons, immigrants from Mexico and Central America (inclusive of long-term residential families) without a modicum of due process.

Xenophobia, as is the case with other phobias such as claustrophobia, agrophobia, and acrophobia, is appropriately referable to psychiatric attention and should be so pursued, in the interest of the salubrious health of the body politic.

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Our thematic circus has come to Foggy Bottom. All are now welcome to enjoy the ubiquitous talent and amusements on accessible display.

The prem in ent performance, taking place under the Big Top, is the Senate Inquiry relative to the policies of Joseph Kennedy, Jr., the unconventional Trump-appointed Secretary of Health and Welfare.

The spectators seated in the big top were witnesses to an acrimonious Senate hearing on the performance record of JFK, Jr., as National Health Secretary, which warrants the analogous rapt attention and excitement of a tourist at a Mexican bullfight. The event saw a bipartisan excoriation of the outre Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy. Senators from both parties remonstrated angrily with the stone-faced, gravely toned, aggressive Trump appointee, regarding his errant and dangerous policy of banning vaccinations and dogmatic firing of CDC professionals, who favor vaccination. Kennedy appeared defensively arrogant and argumentative in his vain attempt to justify his outre, dogmatic rejection of the subject’s consistently effective history of vaccination as a successful prophylaxis against disease. Kennedy appeared nonplussed about the empirical increase in measles (previously considered to have been eliminated) and other diseases, plainly inconsistent with his atavistic policy relative to vaccination.

The circus patron no doubt will contextually recall the million Americans who died unnecessarily during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the solicitous assistance of President Donald J, Trump, who recommended the ingestion of laundry detergent and the clinical use of a popular horse-wormer as a panacea.

Kennedy, the Nation’s Health Secretary, was unable to testify to the number of Americans killed by COVID-19; yet another revelation of his abject ignorance as to the relevant information. The bipartisan panel critically questioned the Secretary about the resignations and dogmatic firings of highly qualified, experienced officials of the CDC due to their support of vaccination policies and the danger of the Secretary’s outrageous and atavistic policies. We were indeed impressed with the candid expressions of irate criticism from the Senators, both Republican and Democrat.

At another of the numerous circus exhibitions, one can observe a complete list of the Trump tariffs, ignorantly (and illegally) imposed by the President with the sophomoric intention to lower prices, but which rationally and predictably raise the cost to sellers of imported goods and ultimately consumer prices.

Another entertaining exhibition is dedicated to honoring the many exotic, masked hoodlums hired by the Presidential Administration, tasked with the responsibility of slandering and eliminating peaceful Hispanic Americans.

In the course of our struggle to arrive at a conceivably rational explanation for Trump’s bizarre appointment of the incapable and argumentative Secretary of Health, we were reminded of his many other untenable appointments, all of which are grotesquely inappropriate and pragmatically dangerous; as described in some detail in earlier writings.

After stopping at the circus midway for a soft drink and cotton candy, one may elect to visit the circus freak show, featuring a Secretary of Homeland Security who has proven her sanity and competence by shooting her young puppy in the face and tossing him into a pit, an alcoholic Secretary of the Armed Forces whose body tattoos evince his ardent support of the Nation’s perverse White, Christian Militias, a security chief who is an intimate friends with the Nation’s sworn enemies, an Attorney General who despite articulated assurances of the absence of enemies list,” and her office dedicated to the reprentation of the Nation, nevertheless, utilizes her Department of Justice to compliantly prosecute political opponents of the President.

We anxiously await the striking of the contextual circus tent and the appropriate removal of the MAGA circus from the Potomac premises.

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Were there any conceivable possibility that Donald J. Trump, honored for serial mendacity and “snake oil” demagogery, possessed a modicum of suitability to be the Nation’s Chief Executive, it was thoroughly dispelled today.

After the gut-wrenching testimony of a host of former victims of the horrific, juvenile sex ring, the enterprise of Jeffrey Epstein and his malevolent procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump arrogantly declared the ubiquitous heartrending and accusatory testimony “a hoax.’ This startling response warrants an obvious charge of defensiveness, given that Epstein was Trump’s known confederate. In our view, the reflexive defensive response may tend to beneficially demonstrate to, at least, some of the MAGA viewers the gross, tactical, and delusional malignity of Donald Trump. Notable MAGA cultists, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, who held hands with democratic Congressman Ro Kahana, indicated ardent support for the victims.

One cannot know if such enthusiastic support of the victims evinced by Margerie Taylor Green and Lauren Bo9ebert was revealatory of a previously unmanifested feeling of moral empathy, or, alternatively, a further display of their mutual neurotic penchant for conspiratorial ideation; nevertheles, it is is our hope that more MAGA adherents will now be enabled to confess that Donald Trump is a devious snake -oil demagogue, a systemic villain and, himself, a despicable hoax. Like Trump’s infamous reference to the hundreds of dead young soldiers, buried at Arlington Military Cemetery, as”losers and suckers,” his knee-jerk defensive response, “Hoax,” may redound to the revelation of his systemically self-interested, immoral, and inhumane persona.

Significantly, the sexual abuse of several hundred sexually abused victims were enticed and ensnared in Epstein’s obscene web by Ghislaine Maxwell when they were of an innocent young age. Epstein’s procurement was international as well as National, and sophisticated methods of banking finance were established on a sub-rosa basis, internationally and domestically. A thorough investigation of his nefarious and despicably wide web of corruption and highly profitable enterprise would, doubtless. ensnare countless enablers as well as reveal the covert list of names of prominent consumers of Epstein’s nefarious service. The latter consideration makes relevant the possibility that Epstein, confined to a prison cell, did not die by suicide; an enticing proposition for conspiracy mavins, many of whom are MAGA cultists.

The public revelation of the myriad of contextual sex offenses against young girls, by a confidant of Donald Trump (apparently, also a loyal customer, as revealed by publicly shown video footage) would impair Trump’s political reputation, as it would other well-known personalities. It is the latter consideration that cogently suggests the empirical suggestion of such a homocidal event, as an empirical alternative to the media-reported “suicide,” and doubtlessly titillates the imagination of the “all-knowing” ideations of MAGA conspiracy wonks.

In the interestof our Democratic Republic, we would celebrate the justified removal of the inappropriate, autocraticly unprincipled Donald J. Trump from the American Presidency, However, we cannot help but look askance at the nature of a public that is ultimately moved to outrage by charges of sexual and homicidal nature regardless of responsible contempt at Trump’s multifarious constitutional abuse, heartless denial of institutional relief to the needy, domestic and international, autocratic attack upon our Republican Democracy, ubiquitous immorality, inclusive of multiple criminal felonies, his Gestapo-style prosecution of peaceful and productive Hispanics, his purloining of top-secret documents, criminal interference with the National vote, authorian motivatred attacks on American Universities and the National Media, violation of the “Emolument Clause by magnifi self-inrichment, elimination of the Nation’s Health Research Services, serial mendacity and complete lack of moral compass, all, in aggravation of a woeful state of empiricaslly demonstrated incapacity.

To quote a popular aphorism: “Any port in a storm.”

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In the immediately preceding writing, we expressed our optimistic belief that, analogous to Sir Isaac Newton’s declaration that “For every action, there is an equal corresponding action,” the existing dystopia of the Trump Administration would be met by an equal return force (of citizens) restoring the traditional character of our Democratic Republic. We noted the current advent of instances evincing such dynamic reaction that have already manifested themselves.

In this writing, we are concerned with a more enduring, universal problem related to the future of Mankind’s developmental progress, or his atavistic regression, a subject of universal concern, historically predating the dystopian Trump Presidency and certain to persist long afterward.

In recent years, we have learned from conversations with academics who teach at universities and from startling essays of expert educators appearing in “The Atlantic” and “The American Scholar,” that the intellectual quality of today’s college students have degraded; that the desire for higher education for the sake of personal enlightenment and the development of a mature perception has waned in favor of securing a college degree as requisite to the acquisition of a good job. It has been revealed that the capability and inclination to read books and write essays are limited; that the salutary quality of intellectual curiosity is anachronistic. We regard this all-pervasive tragedy as shocking and extremely worrisome.

It has been the principal theme of this blogspace that enlightenment, particularly through the study of the humanities, leads to a mature understanding of oneself and the ambient World and makes for a fulfilled life experience. Under all of our 1,300 writings, the respective themes, expressly or impliedly, are founded in the desire to encourage personal growth and the attainment of a sense of fulfillment through reading and learning, on a personal and institutional basis. The aspiration for true success is attained by the result of the individual’s development of understanding and a mature perspective.

The subject is also one relating to the success and endurance of the Nation, as a correlating benefit. The existential importance of a sophisticated and knowledgeable population was again demonstrated by our World War 2 enemy, Germany. This small to medium-sized country came close to conquering the World, by reason of its educated and easily mobilized population. In our view, Germany’s power was in its human resources, far more than its natural resources and horrific armaments. It seems to be proven by history that the most cogent and effective National resource is its people.

In the search for personal growth and, more universally, National character, the enlightened citizen has not only provided for himself the opportunity for a fulfilling life, but, additionally, in the National context, an existentially vital citizen. The populist, unfulfilling preference for video games, rather than reading good literature, smartphones, in place of natural and satisfying personal interaction, has empirically and destructively, led to a generally dumbed-down, solitary, and insecure population of little utility to themselves and minimal utility to the Nation; they do not swim forward, their propensity and singular persona is handicapped and limited to the minimal dynamics of treading water in place. Relevantly, Thomas Jefferson presciently admonished that for a democracy to be successful, it requires an educated and well-informed population.

Conceivably, the Nation might convene a comprehensive program of study and recommendations of knowledgeable educators and psychologists to ascertain a utilitarian route to a more enlightened and knowledge-seeking student population. For starters, the holiday gifting of good literature to children rather than video games might be a cogent starting place,

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American citizens, presently thrashing about in a tsunami of despondency caused by the currently foundering state of our Democratic Republic, can beneficially rely on the classic philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton, for his timely service as a doctrinal lifeguard. While we have expressed the essence of the present theme in past writing, nevertheless, we find ourselves unable to resist its needed reprise and, once more, express our expectation regarding the positive recuperation from the Nation’s present and metastasizing undemocratic trend, etiologically founded in an unprecedented and dystopic Trump-MAGA malignancy.

Newton’s universally accepted and proven theory, popularly referred to as “The Theory of Action and Reaction,” declares that for any action an object exerts upon another, there is an opposite and equal reaction.” It is the theme of this writing that such a universally immutable dynamic is analogously applicable in ubiquitous contexts, including those related to the Nation’s extant political dystopia.

Traditional American citizens have winced in pain contemporaneously with each of the myriad assaults on their Constitutional and inherently private rights and the pernicious, Trump-Maga forced march to autocracy; and its unjust immorality of rule by political influence, rather than by the Nation’s Constitution and laws.

It ominously appears that the current Presidential team has erected a huge crane, from which depends and impactfully swings, a heavy and pernicious wrecking ball, smashing citizen rights and indiscriminately destroying the Democratic Republic, to rebuild an edifice in the vile nature of an autocracy, where Executive power is unlimited to the detriment of liberty and citizen rights. The wrecking ball has attacked the democratic vote to install rule by political or financial influence, denigrated of the fundamental existence of free speech, the Nation’s media, education, notably, higher education, eliminated the utilitarian federal civil service, inclusive of the agencies which dedicatedly resesarch and fight illness, curtailed programs of capitalistic compassion such as Social Security and Medicaire, health and safety regulations and assistance to the needy, domestic and international, interfered with the democratic vote, installed tax policies that favor the very wealthy to the detriment of the middle and lower economic classes, destroyed the legal and constitutional limitations on Presidential rule, such as posse comitatus, in the use of a masked Gestsapo-like army to wreak mortal havoc on Hispanic residents, illegally send National Guard troops to politically selected States, purportedly to fight crime, promoted fossil fuels (“drill, baby drill”) favoring sociopathic polluting industry over human and planetary health (“Global Warming”), committed outrageous violations of the constiutional “Emolument Clause,” illegally and immorally enriched himself and family, and perhaps most societally retrogressive and societally metaphysical, derogation of factual truth in favor of subjectively utilitarian “Alternate Facts.”

The awaited return to National health resulting from the immutable dynamics of the Newtonian return of the pendulum’s wreaking ball (i.e,” action and. reaction”) is now happily discernible. Republican (MAGA) town hall meetings are replete with irate complaints by voters to Congressional Representatives, Federal District Courts are restraining the runaway illegality of ICE, Democratic Governors are resisting the Presidential Orders that illegally send National Guard troops to selected cities. litigation has been ubiquitously commenced to block Trump’s outrageous exercise of egoistic-monarchical lust, huge public demonstrations are taking place in opposition to attempts to transmogrify our Democratic Republic into an authoritarian state, consumers are protesting Trump’s snake oil promises of lower prices, citizens are resisting attempts at book censorship, universities are appropriately beginning to resist Trump’s attempts to control their curricula, heralth experts are disputing the Administration’s perversion of propohylactic vaccinne and other salutory medical procedures and an active program of voter protection is observable.

The direction of the wrecking ball is now moving in reverse and in full swing. It is empirically predictable that the Newtonian reverse swing, with the further impetus of Ginsberg-Marshallgate, will beneficially redirect the present trend to autocracy and restore the Nation to its traditionally defining democracy and its concomitant societal liberty and moral humanism

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