“A Misguided Preacher with No Faith in His Own Sermons”
By Mark Mondalek
The last few years of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s life, he took to repeating a saying over and over again, not silently to himself in prayer, but right out loud for anyone to hear.
“People like me,” he’d tell his compatriots, “do not live long.”
Coming Up: A New Look, A New Podcast Show & A Few Bold and Daring Objectives
As always I am way behind in providing my promised quarterly update report for Boiling Frogs Post. And I don’t even know where to begin since so much has been happening during the last four months. I think I am going to apply one of my ‘make things more doable and less of a scary mammoth task’ principles here by breaking the information into small chunks, and presenting them one at a time. Usually this works for me, so let’s see how I do as I go forward.
Our Collective Duty is Very Simple: We Must Never Forget
By Mark Mondalek
Helen Thomas was a patriot.
“You have to believe in something,” she once told me, “Believe in democracy.”
Patriotism is, of course, a relative thing. Shamefully, it has almost become a dirty word these days, increasingly harbored by those who take the word of the government as though it were scripture; those who behave permissive of the Washington war machine; don’t doubt, don’t ask why.