Rating: ❤❤❤❤ I’m Timothy What’s His Name. – “The Seven Tongues of God” Guinea Pigs in Outer Space In my early teens I became fascinated by musician/vocalist Syd Barrett, in and beyond Pink Floyd. His shamelessly wacky lyrics and his erratic nature impressed me, helping me to develop my lifelong iconoclasm and taste for the …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ He used to say, over and over, every day he would put on his cemetery clothes. – Cornel West, Black Prophetic Power When MLK was assassinated in 1968, young journalist Joseph Rosenbloom decided to eventually investigate and tell “what happened in Memphis leading to the violent finale to King’s life.” Fifty years later …
According to the late dictator Fidel Castro, the Revolución Cubana’s legacy was almost blameless, constructive, justifiably defiant and positively epochal rather than dystopian and fated for failure. However, besides ever-intrusive government, the quest for mass social justice requires drastic actions, so it’s easy to find Fidel’s denials of civil-rights abuses, executions and intolerance incredible. On …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Team Friedman Though the genius Alan Turing deserves pity for the ultimately fatal persecution he suffered for his homosexuality, at least he’s since been admired and embedded deep in well-known history for his extraordinary mind and accomplishments. There’s no shortage of writing and talk about him and his life, and his very name has …
