John Presnall

Typically messed up people and messed up middle class lives make an interesting story when there is no revenge for which one needs to make retribution, or when there is no obvious injustice to which human dignity requires courageous defiance in defense what is right. Without bloody revenge or . . . . Continue Reading »

So this post tries to make a typical pop song important to one’s own (your own) reality. What is that big idea she had? To this day, you must still ask yourself. You may think that surely it had something to do with freedom and equality, but what that left for each of you was a bunch of deep . . . . Continue Reading »

This piece by George Will on why it should be neither Mitt nor Newt got me thinking of the future four years from now. John Hunstman must be a genius on the long play. He comes out as the conservative who is willing to rattle rhetorically the conservative bones. He makes outrageous statements about . . . . Continue Reading »

So this post presents a personal case. I attended a funeral today of a man who was important in my life. A friend of my parents from before I was born, he and his family were a presence in my life throughout my formative years. It is a sad thing that such a good man is no longer with us, but as the . . . . Continue Reading »

In recent debates both Cain and Gingrich have brought up the “Galveston Plan” as the proper manner to deal with public pensions obligations. Apparently what a second rate town populated with people fleeing their own pasts who are smart enough to hold out for themselves in their own . . . . Continue Reading »

So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of . . . . Continue Reading »

There is de facto multiculturalism and there is ideological multiculturalism. Ideological multiculturalism is not okay by me. This is the kind of multiculturalism where it says, “you can’t say” whatever is to be said regarding cultural differences, and that if one already know where . . . . Continue Reading »

Whether I speak in terms of what is considered to be important in terms of sexuality (or pretentiously called eros), or whether I present it in terms of a Brian De Palma movie about fate, apparently I must present it terms of the Republicans seeking the nomination in order to be take seriously. But . . . . Continue Reading »

Brian De Palma’s film Carlito’s Way tells the story of a man chased by furies—a chase in which he attempts to flee from his fate, but from which he cannot escape. He cannot run away. Despite Carlito’s ingenuity and skill, and despite his rules that make his way—rules which . . . . Continue Reading »

So I was listening to some “wholesome”  music that is worthwhile in its description of the ennui of modern eros, and this story came to mind (pardon the initial commercial on the video). Who wouldn’t like a pretty girl to call your own? Most young men wish to meet that sweet . . . . Continue Reading »