“The Stranger” was a 1946 post-war film noir vehicle about a Nazi SS mass murderer who had escaped to America, and of course, the War Crimes Commission was looking for him. Orson Welles directed it, and played the Nazi, who…
Category: Bratlings
“16 Candles” and the Age of Consent
Note the dates: “16 Candles” was a celebration song about coming-of-age in the 50s, when teenagers were taking over the music market with their 45rpm record changers. My sister got one her 16th birthday in ’58, two years before she…
Assassins and America’s Coming Mental Breakdown
(A Teaching) Bet you didn’t know that the title term assassins comes from the Arab word, hashish, which was a very potent drug known all the way back to the Middle Ages and the Crusades? Some say they came from…
“Sex”- Innocence is Worth Protecting
Why I oppose sex ed for children. Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who helped Jews hide from the Holocaust during the Nazi era. She and her older sister, and two brothers and her father, a watch-maker, were arrested,…
The Scarlet Limp (w/William Shatner filmclip)
(Just edited with a 2008 ad with William Shatner proving the point I’m making here. Scroll down, watch the 1 minute film, then read the lesson.) First, you need to read this “Justified Bloody Nose” piece from 2016. It’s about…