Rome Mubarak’s twitter account, under the name The Mysterious Mr. Foley, describes him as a Film Director, Editor, Producer, Writer, Master’s Bike racer, Educator, Professor of Political Science, lover of truth and fighter of causes. And indeed he is all those things and more. He directed several short films including

A few weeks ago, I was fortunate to attend a seminar on decision-making and human behavior. The presenter discussed how when it comes to making decisions, we humans do not know what we are doing! He said we have limited attention spans and we use rules of thumb and herding (the

I don’t like to talk about religion with my friends. It always leads to problems and you are guaranteed to offend someone. This dislike comes from going to a Christian college where everyone had an opinion (and thought everyone else wanted to hear it) on whether or not we should drink,

This is the final part of my comparison between the French Revolution and events happening today. The killing and chaos that was caused by the ineptitude of the French monarch, the revolutionaries, the rise of the far left liberals and their Reign of Terror, and the murdering of any who

17,000 People. 17,000 men and women, brothers and sisters, wives and husbands, sons and daughters. That is how many people it is estimated the liberals murdered by guillotine during the Reign of Terror in the name of liberty, fraternity and equality. During this time, all you basically had to do

The real legacy of the French Revolution seems to me to have been radicalization leading to hysteria and death and bloodshed. Similar to 1984, in the novel by George Orwell and many historical revolutions, all it took to have someone sent for re-education or to be put in prison or

I have thinking a lot about the French Revolution of the late 1700s lately. I have also been thinking about other revolutions: the Russian Revolution, The Chinese Revolution, even our own. I have been thinking a lot about how the things that happened then are reflected in the events that

Now the car that I drive is a 2006 Nissan Sentra. A couple years ago I misjudged the distance while I was parking and broke off a piece of my front passenger side bumper. I have not had a chance or the money to get it fixed. So I have

John Horse was a Afro-Native American born in 1812. He was a member of the Black Seminoles in Central and Southern Florida. He grew up under an occupying army (the United States) and was treated by the Americans and by the Seminoles as something like a 2nd class citizen as

A few weeks ago, I pulled up my recommendations for Youtube.  I like to hear about the details about different movies and the stories behind them and in the list of recommendations was a video about Stanley Kubrick’s making of the Shining and some theories about the symbolism that he