A RUSSIAN SYMPHONY
Russia is part of Europe. Yet Russia and the Russians seem to have come from a different planet.
Category: Literature
“LA CI DAREM LA MANO…” (THERE, WE WILL HOLD HANDS…)
An incursion in the life and work of the great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The title is inspired by the beginning words of “Don Giovanni”, an opera in which themes like morality and providence are discussed.
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Sep 01, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
THE ECONOMIC RIP TIDE – THE PAPER BUBBLE
Chapter Three As a doctor in the Emergency Department I occasionally saw patients with strange complaints. The complaints generally concerned pain in different parts of the body. The patient, almost always, was a male. Since, I was very experienced, I could tell after a few minutes of conversation and a visual inspection of the patient’s [...]
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Aug 01, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
THE “BAG LADY” IN THE E.R.
To some degree, we all have the “Bag Lady” mentality. It is simply the thought that the future might be mean and we had better keep something that we would normally throw away in case “We might need it someday.” Women, because they must care for children, have this thought more frequently than men. In [...]
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May 12, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
ECONOMIC RIP TIDE — CHAPTER ONE
The first chapter of “Economic Rip Tide”, by Sanford Pinna.
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MARCH 8TH, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
March 8th International Women’s Day Original article written by Alex, Socialism Survivor Note: Alex is the Nom de Plume of a former USSR citizen who now resides in the U.S. For those who know little about “Gulags” some research into Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous novel, “The Gulag Archipelago” is in order. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in [...]
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Mar 09, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
BELLADONNA
“BELLADONNA” is one of the most widely used medicines in the entire world. The name “Belladonna” means “Beautiful Woman” in Italian. For some unknown reason Italian men are fascinated by women’s eyes. Their interest is so specific and so strong that Italian women took advantage of this interest by eating parts of a plant that [...]
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Feb 18, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
