TABLE OF ESSAYS

ESSAYS

5/30/2023 Welcome to Maureen Dowd's Congratulations for Earning her English Literature Masters of Art Degree from the Harvard English Department

5/29/2023 US Ex-President Donald John Trump vs. Charles Malcolm Fraser

5/15/2023 Welcome To Damage Control Monday

5/10/2023 No Surprise Idiots Prefer History Books Closed

4/25/2023 Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) Deserves Prestigious Retirement

4/11/2023 King Charles, Everyone Deserves A Favor

4/7/2023 No Surprise Idiots Prefer History Books Closed

3/21 - wrote, 3/20/2023 The Only "RIOT" Is My Peace Declaration

3/20/2023 My Thank You Sir Paul McCartney Moment

3/12/2023 Letters Section (Print Edition) March 12, 2023, The New York Times Book Review

3/10/2023 O Come All Historians, Redeem Our Icon History

3/9/2023 Plan On Tourism Whose Ideal Is History Disappeared 

2/24/2023 The Colonial Rule of President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

2/20/2023 Jimmy Carter's Mistakes Are an Assortment of Variables' Scapegoats

2022

1/1/2022 Handling This Dark Era of The Advanced Ages  

2021

March 22, 2021 Contemporary Recap, Ex-Presidency 

2020

2020 Essay Witch Hunts' Relevance 

Readressed Essays 

New under Old May 8, 2012 - January 15, 2019

Testing History’s Repetitive Rhyme

August 24, 2012 - China - Rule By The Numbers Minus People?

+  December 9 - January 15, 2019  - The Waning Days of Impeachment Proceedings ...

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August 17, 2012 - Why Would Anyone In Line To Be Emperor Have Clothes?

+  Nov. 11 - Dec. 31, 2019 - Britain Leads World Hiding From America's Same Embarrassments

August 21, 2012 - Cuban Capitalism On Track To Protect Next Elite

+  September 26 - December 3, 2019  - Truth-like

August 20, 2012 - Augusta National Noteworthily Accepts Women  

+  July 24 - September 25, 2019 - Privilege On Trial

August 17, 2012 - Two Year Sentence For Stunt Honoring Integrity In Church

+  June 20 - July 23, 2019  - Well. How Should I Say This?

August 18, 2012 - Little Surprise Julian Assange Knew To Pick: Ecuador

+  April 8 - July 9, 2019 - Quite The Spies, Aren't We?

August 15, 2012 - Legal Physicians Heal Thyselves?

+  January 31, - February 20, 2019 - The Modern Day Maginot Line

August 14, 2012 - Despite Claims Has Political Process Ever Cared How We Might Vote?

+  1/21 - 2/11/2019 - When Ethically Challenged Brazenly Let Their Trade's Minutiae Catch Them Up Too

August 13, 2012 - Occupy Evicted From Public Bank Pedestrian Cement Park

+ January 1st - 31st, 2019 - The Provocatively Tabloidial Presidency (1/9/2019)

August 10, 2012 - Politics Make A Difference, When?

+  December 17, 2018 - January 15, 2019 - An Address The Nation Speech (1/8/2019)

August 9, 2012 - The Political Myth Of The Modern Mind

+  November 17 - December 19, 2018 - What's So Funny About Heartless Ruthless Fakery

August 8, 2012 - Supposed KREMLIN Foe Literally Invites EVERYONE To Have Liberated Fun

+  November 1 - December 11, 2018 - November 6, 2018 An All-Out Soapbox Rant

August 7, 2012 - Oh Dear, Doctors Put Profit Ahead Of Patient Care?

+  October 4 - November 7, 2018 - Our Nobles, Best and Brightest Compromised

August 6, 2012 - Editorialist Weighs Value Of Open Secrecy

+ September 18, 2018 - September 12, 2019

Freedom of The Press, Yes THE MURPHY BROWN ESSAYS

7/30/ 2012 - Individual Cop Blamed For Dept. Fostering OUR Social Referees' Subcultural Intolerance

+ Sep. 5 - Oct. 7, 2018 - Blinded By The Light’s One Thing, But Mesmerized By Gold’s Quite Another

July 30, 2012 - Political Advice from The Comedy Writers At Reuters 

+  August 21 - September 8, 2018 - Uh Oh. Another Example Of "The At It Again Media?"

July 30, 2012 - Sadly Russia’s Political Trajectory Emulates Entire World’s Exclusionary Elitism

+  August 1 - 31, 2018 - IDOLIZED ELITISM: Power Corrupting Absolutely Isn't A Maybe?

July 30, 2012 - Prepared For Better War?

+ June 22 - July 31, 2018 - A Not So Wonderful, Photo-opped, Cliqued, Life

July 27, 2012 - China Indicts Ousted Official's Wife In Unravelling Financial Scheme Death

+ May 31 - July 16, 2018 - Verse 1

7/25/2012 - Jailed Former Billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky Sentence Review By Russian Supreme Court

+ May 8 - May 28, 2018 - Dear Mr. President, 

July 24, 2012 - Hurtling Towards World-Wide-War On Drugs Destruction

+ April 20 - May 8, 2018 - Pep Rally America?

July 23, 2012 - FREE SPEECH: Tough Nugget For KREMLIN To Absorb

+ March 27 - May 1, 2018 - Logical Threads

July 20, 2012 - Brighter Days Ahead For North Korea?

+ March 5 - April 2, 2018 - LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

July 19, 2012 - Retirement Not Attention Addicted Larry King's Thing

+ February 12 - March 21, 2018 - Scapegoating Larry's Celebrity Infatuation's Out?

July 18, 2012 - No Respite From Game Of Molded Public Opinion 

1995 Vitriolic Email from Provocative Mega-Celebrity, ____ _______.

+ January 5 - February 23, 2018 Where Has The Time Gone? Conversing Clichés

July 17, 2012 - Pulling Rug From Under Small Entrepreneur, Cuban Capitalism Pretends Protectionism

+ December 27, 2017- January 18, 2018 - WHAT THE?

July 16, 2012  - New York City's Lea Neal Pulls Herself To Next Plateau

+ 11/10 - 12/.27/2017 - What I'd Ask Lia Neal: Have You Swam In East River or Hudson?

July 13, 2012 - Ethiopian Free Speech Imprisoned

+ August 18 - November 16, 2017 - FACING THE LEGACY

July 12, 2012 - Crime Still Refuge For Those Actual Labor Is Beneath

+ July 19, August 8 - 21, 2017 - Life's Being Knocked Around

July 11, 2012 - Censorship Question Russian Duma's Answer To Protection From Free Speech

+ July 7 - 27, 2017  - Original Essay Ended Off-Topic

July 10, 2012 - Can Electoral Outrageousness Be Blamed On The Constitution Too?

+ June 13 - July 8, 2017 - attention's manipulated

July 6, 2012 - Adultery Execution Moves Afghanistan's President Karzai

+ 5/30 - 6/21/2017 Women’s plight is what their leverage earned, is admittedly conspiracy.

7/6/2012 - Europe’s Missile Shield Conundrum Brings Together Russian & German Foreign Ministers

+ May 4 - 31, 2017 - A Grand Parade of Pyrotechnics

July 6, 2012 - Intrigue Infiltrates Yasser Arafat Estate

+ April 11 - May 3, 2017 - TIME MARCHES ON

July 3, 2012 - Andy Griffith Made A Mark

+ March 27 - April 13, 2017 Politically Correct's Bent Twist

June 29, 2012 - The Fine Society's Debtors Prisons

+ March 14 - 29, 2017 - For Racism Denial , Bob Herbert's Excellent Documentary.

June 29, 2012 - ABC Newsworthily Names Kirk Douglas Person of Week

+ February 13 - March 21, 2017 - Maybe It's Not Me Carried Away By The Subject Matter

June 28, 2012 - It's The New Kathie Lee and Regis Show

+ January 30 - February 13, 2017 - What a Business. Insiders clowning around.

June 27, 2012 - The Queen Visits Ireland

+ January 17 - 31, 2017 - YOUR MAJESTY?

June 26, 2012 - Committee Approves University Football Playoffs

+ December 2, 2016 - January 23, 2017 - American Football Is A Look At Ourselves?

June 25, 2012 - Doctor Who Assisted in Bin Laden Execution Still In Pakistani Prison

+ November 9 - 30, 2016 - The Same Old Sold New Again

June 22, 2012 - When Nothing Is Done Is A Beautiful Democratic Achievement

+ October 12 - November 8, 2016 - Passing This Way Again

June 20, 2012 - Does A Mexican Trip And Invitation To Moscow Make A Difference Surrounded By Handlers, ALL THE TIME Putin and Obama

+ September 29 - October 11, 2016 - Uh huh

June 17, 2012 - A Fine Day For A Ceremonial Announcement In The White House Rose Garden

+ September 8 - 27, 2016  - WAKE UP?

June 14, 2012 - United States Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON Hopes KIM JONG-UN Charts Different Course For His People

+ August 15, 16 & 30 - September 6, 2016 - Some Coincidence?

June 13, 2012 - Boston Criminal Boss James (Whitey) Bulger's Common-Law Spouse, Catherine E. Greig, Sentenced To Eight Years

+ July 27, 29 - August 12, 2016 - Of Course Criminal Intent's Bad

June 12, 2012 - What A Difference A RUSSIA DAY Makes

+ July 13, 19 - 28, 2016 - How Blazingly Bright's The Contemporary Dark Future

June 11, 2012 - Too-Big-To-Fail KREMLIN Intolerantly Turns Up Heat On Eve Of PEACEFUL PROTEST

+ June 27 - July 18, 2016 - Escalatingly Rhetorical

June 8, 2012 - Who Knows What Our Medical Industrial Complex Costs?

+ June 21 - ..., 2016 - Escalating Rhetoric

6/7/2012 - Labeled Lavishly Leveraged, 19.2% Oklahoma City Thunder Minority-Stake Owner, Aubrey McClendon & Orlando

+ June 13 - 20, 2016 - Follow The Money Isn't Ethically Following?

June 6, 2012

Politics Rules Litigious Society Is Women's Fault Probably Since Receiving Right To Vote

+ June 6 - 13, 2016 - June 6 - 13, 2016

June 6, 2012 - President Mubarak Exonerated Of Direct Involvement In Egyptian Arab Spring Uprising Deaths

+ May 19 - June 6, 2016 - My Embarrassing John Cleese Moment

June 1, 2012 - PRESIDENT PUTIN PUBLICLY COVETS PAWN

+ April 20 - May 18, 2016 - MOVE

May 31, 2012 - The Saga Of Argentina Nationalizing YPF Oil Continues …

+ April 12 - 20, 2016 - Right? Money Went That Away

May 30, 2012 - Talking Heads Star Heralds Children's Toy As Transportation Staple

+ March 23 - 25, 2016 - I WAS WRONG

May 25, 2012 - Franchise Owner's Commercial Play For Film Posterity - ON THE ROAD

+ March 15 - 23, 2016 - Sisyphus Isn't A Myth

May 24, 2012 - Russian Parliament To Economically Control Public Displays Of Dissatisfaction, President Putin Advises

+ February 16 - March 15, 2016 - Assassination of Putin Critic Remembered in Moscow

May 23, 2012 - Absolutely Tragic Trayvon Martin Case

+ January 12 - February 12, 2016 - Happy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

May 22, 2012 - Major Television Contributor Clicks Off

May 21, 2012 - Putin Cabinet Pick From Associates That Ruled Russia All Along

+ January 11, 2016 - Yeah right. President Putin's picking up his pace attending to the roots of Russia's inequalities.

May 18, 2012 - Could FACEBOOK Be Any More Wholesome, Or Cold Tomorrow

+ January 4 - 8, 2016 - TO MY REMORSE, Not Advocating A Particular Candidate For President

May 7, 2012 - First OCCUPY WALL STREET Related Trial Defendant 

Acquitted of Blocking STREET

+ December 28 - 31, 2015 - December 28 - 31, 2015

May 16, 2012 - Top Executive, Of Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, Charged in British Hacking Case

+ December 21 - 27, 2015 - George W. Bush Should Please Apologize

May 15, 2012 - Ex-New York State Senator Guilty of Skimming From His Own Nonprofit

+ December 9 - 18, 2015 - The Roots of Corruption

May 14, 2012 - Conscience Quest Nosedives As NBC Cancels Older Folks’ HARRY’S LAW

+ November 24 - December 8, 2015 - The Politics of Sunday Morning Television

May 10, 2012 - Russian Opposition Leaders Jailing Assumed To Be Crackdown

+ November 17 - 23, 2015 - Oh, So Same Ole New Show?

May 9, 2012 - Tis The Political Season Of “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE"

+ November 2 - 16, 2015 - Propaganda For Everyone! 

No. 1, May 8, 2012

Shark Tank on ABC Teaches A Proverbial Lesson: The Big Fish Eat The Small Fry + If The Rich Aren’t Getting Richer We’re In Real Trouble

+ October 30, 2015 - Lame Readdressing, Should Follow Up 

daily essays + Otherwise

2015

10/16, CONTEMPORARY HISTORY COURSE PROPOSAL

8/19, Passage Removed Belongs Back In The Declaration of Independence

6/30, INVESTIGATIONS IN PROGRESS

5/8, SMOOTH MOVE SHERLOCK?

3/20, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way?

3/2, JUDGEMENT DAY: The Hollywood Ending?

2/5, ONE BIG CAVITY

2014

12/16, Sycophantism's Grand Parade?

11/13, WHAT'S REALLY EXPECTED?

9/24, Globalization's Carpetbaggers?

8/20, Why Hasn't a Foundation of Peaceful Generations Replaced This Hateful One?

7/18, Transition Who Can't Afford?

6/27, PATRIOTISM FOR EVERYONE

6/13, The Patronage System?

5/20, Political Momentum

4/1, Fix The Sidewalks Party

1/16, Moral Totems Should Be Risen To, Not Fallen From?

2013

12/27, Everyone Has Real Choices? Fictionalized Autobiography

12/13, Here's To The Ukraine In All of Us

11/27, Stop and Frisky?

11/7, America's Mayor? Or Power Of Façade

10/17, Street Etiquette?

10/5,  Would Healthcare Going Down Like Alcohol Prohibition Demonstrate As Much Guts?

9/27,  Are You Celebritized?

9/16, Good News For Modern Management?

8/29, Every Major Military Strike Has Advance Warning?

8/19, Incarceration Or Not To Be Is A Question?

8/9, What’s Worse Is The Claim Two Wrongs Make A Right?

7/28, To The Victor Goes Being Spoiled?

7/11, The Diminishing Art Of Enlivening The News?

6/27, COMRADE PUTIN CONQUERS CRIME?

6/18, PROGRESS DEVOURED THE NEWS? 

6/7, Power Is Tenuous?

5/30, To Be Advertising Or Not To Be Is A Question? The Tuli Kupferberg Play

5/22, Peace on Earth and Goodwill To Every Good Woman and Man?

5/14, How Gutlessly Oblivious To Feigned Integrity Can Selling Culture Be?

5/3, Why The Problems Are In The Details That Aren't The Solution? 

4/25, What Is There To Possibly Hope For In The Show Trial of Aleksei Navalny?

4/18,  Mad Enough To Hurt Innocent People? - BOSTON

4/12, What Appears to be Politics is, after all, Just The Politics Of Appearance? 

4/1, What's To Be Done With Your Legacy? President Putin?

3/26, Endlessly Negotiated Middle East Peace?

3/18, Miracle of Miracles, Finally, A Huger Argentinian Celebrity Than Maradona? 

3/10, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela Succumbed to Cancer

3/1, SERGEI LEONIDOVICH MAGNITSKY'S Martyrdom To Ruthlessness

2/27, Are There Clearer Methods Than Self-Interest Available To World Leaders?

2/11, Argentina Is As Nice A Place To Be As Anywhere In The World Right Now

2/5, Dominoes Fall As Humanity Is In Utter Awe Of Inflation Deflating Economics 

2/1, The Clock Is Ticking On The Dead End Of The Illegal Gun Debate?

1/29, Is It Important Governments Pretend To Have Real Relationships?

1/25, It Is Truly Difficult Facing The Truly Crucial Issues Of Our Minds?

1/21, This Is The Martin Luther King Jr. Day January 6

1/16, Jingoism Isn't Just An Ordinary Eight Letter Word?

1/11, Who's Not Curious About North Korea? 

1/9, Are The Big Issues Only Faced When The Repercussions Are?

1/7, THE POLITICS OF LEVERAGE RULE

1/4, So There Are More Women In Congress Now Than Ever Before in The History of the USA?

1/3, When News From The Far Flung Corners Of The World Is Upbeat?

1/2, Despite Politics, This Has The Makings Of Another Grandest Year 

2012

12/28, Whose Very Merry New Year Is This?

12/27, Swing The Gavel. Bang The Gong. Commercial Freedom Will Relieve Us?

12/21, Politics Is A Wonderful Life?

12/20, Often News Is Not New To You, Who Are About To Enter THE TWILIGHT ZONE

12/19, Is Law Such A Tough Order To Fill?

12/17, If Only Litigation Wasn’t The Only Thing Between The People And Powers That Be?

12/13, Being Clear Is Often Not Even Halfway To Full Disclosure 

12/12, Fashionable Rulers Should Understand What Facing Shame Doesn't Mean?

12/11, Life Isn't This Expensive?

12/7, News Is Not More Tragic Than Ever?

12/5, Beautiful! Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill Still Dutifully Supports Absurdity That Russia's Intelligentsia Bothers To Malign Religion 

12/4, Trust Women Conference

12/3, Five States Will Begin Longer School Days For Some Students

11/30, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rockefeller Center Plaza Christmas Tree

11/28, Apparently There's An Apocalypse?

11/27, World Democracy's Lapse? Benevolent Compromise Is A Human Asset?

11/23, Middle East Peace

11/20, Why Branding News Is Best For Us, Is Not What's Best About Us

11/15, It's Scratch My Itch Now In The World's Unruly, Violent Middle East

11/14, Russia Draws The Same Line Again Between Themselves  

11/13, Celebrity Is Not A Phase, But What We're Doomed To Forevermore?

11/12, There's Nothing More Important Than Facing The Future

11/9, Home Grown Immorality

11/8, Russian Corruption? President Putin Fires Defense Minister

11/7, President Barack Obama Is Re-Elected

10/31, PR in Russian Prison

10/30, Hurricane's Aftermath

10/26, Theodore Roosevelt, Museum of Natural History

10/23, RUSSELL MEANS

10/19, Mid-East Violence

10/18, Righteous News

10/17, Mystery Money?

10/16, Capital Improvement

10/15, Capitalize N. Korea

10/12, China's Nobel Prize

10/11, Moses' Car Legacy

10/10, Lance Armstrong

10/9, Merkel In Greece

Soapbox View began May 8, 2012 on journalblock.com

& October 9, 2012 became soapboxview.com

10/2, PRISON REFORM

10/1, Maker Faire in Queens, NY

September 28, 2012 The Great Hall at Cooper Union

9/25, UN Justice/Revenge

9/22, Gessen & Putin

9/22, Vladimir's Mate

9/20, Corp. Energy Interest

9/13, Medvedev, Enough?

9/12, Christopher Steven

9/11, Texas Extreme Speed Limit

9/10, Russia Big Deal

9/31, Remember Bike Ban

9/30, Lindsay Lohan In NY

9/29, Cautious Safety First 

8/27, Even When Not News, President Putin Is The Story Every Day 

8/27, 2012 WOW! HOW MUCH FREE SPEECH HAS RUSSIA WON? 

8/24, 2012 PREMIUM RUSH: A Film About In A Hurry

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