Author Archives: johnrubens

Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2016 Issue at 149; The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure by Henry Petroski. Bloomsbury, 2016 336 pp. It’s time to take into consideration global warming and energy waste before, during and after the … Continue reading →

“You can call me Mr. President.  Has a nice ring to it don’t you think John?” JOHN: [sinking feeling, but too brief to be sad] TRUMP: What, John, you “#withher”? JOHN: Only in my dream. TRUMP: Dream? JOHN: A blonde, … Continue reading →

“Little ground ball to the right side.” @HunterPence: “Don’t diminish me!” @VinScullytweet[we might yet win this game.] @SportsNetLA https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/we-might-yet-win-this-game-vinscullytweets

Dear Ryan: I’m a suspended attorney in Los Angeles. I was having a bloody mary and thought the breaking of the mirror as performance art considering Operation Car Wash and you being at a service station. Hermann Hesse wrote his … Continue reading →

Africa–Dadaab, Kenya; Mogadishu, Somalia City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence. Picador, 2016 400pp. Foreign Affairs Review by Nicolas van de Walle, Sept/Oct 2016 at 188 Keep the pressure on the Clinton Foundation.  … Continue reading →

I enjoyed the article for its easy reading and general overview of American military posture since World War I.  I appreciated the tidbits like President Obama’s “Don’t do stupid stuff” doctrine at 38 and the author’s view the United States … Continue reading →

Peter Kafka Verified account ‏@pkafka John Lennon, 1965. Retweets 2 Likes 2 7:07 PM – 24 Aug 2016 2 retweets 2 likes @pkafka Inspector Clouseau? #PeterSellers had an impact eh? Saw @GregProops, comedian promo during @tcm‘s #BrigitteBardot night #SanCarlosHi https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/johnlennon-petersellers-brigittebardot-hughhefner-petermaxx

The way I feel, he could be right. What do I want to leave as a momento of my life? How will I inspire having no known children? Gail Eichenthal might tell me to “Be nice John!” It does take … Continue reading →

Re: Trump Immigration Relocations “What about white collar crime in high-rise office buildings Mr. Trump?” “They don’t wear white collars much anymore. You’ve got to give people a chance. You’ve got to give them a leg up sometimes.  How about … Continue reading →

“[T]he old ideal of devotion to the public good had been supplanted by rampant avarice; the love of country, by a love of luxury.” “Money, wrote James Warren bitterly, was all that mattered anymore. ‘Patriotism is ridiculed,’ he had warned … Continue reading →