Kill The Heretic!

Another episode of that nagging little voice telling me we’re on a slippery slope to a new witchhunt-Red Scare-age of conformity where the ones who stand out from the crowd will be forced to comply, and if they don’t, shunned, banished, persecuted and eventually slain to rid the world of …

At The Apocalypse Cinema

Watching (and rewatching) an inordinate number of films since Covid-19 proved the pin to burst the latest economic bubble. First, the most recent releases: Knives Out ~ Starts out as an intriguing whodunnit chock-a-block with twists, false leads, side plots and a rogue’s gallery of characters with plenty of motive …

Their Fight Too

In recent years, I’m drawn to stories of self-sacrifice and grace under pressure (as the author whose name inspired this site defined courage), most markedly when revealed in time of war. The military nurses whose story is now preserved for the ages in We Band of Angels by Elizabeth Norman …