From our Books, movies and music section: an informative and well-written collection of essays by Rebecca Solnit, on feminism, rape culture, toxic “masculinity” and related subjects…
Undoubtedly, you know one or more people in your life who should read this.
From out Books, movies and music section: Matt Damon and the Bourne movies, always good…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/14/the-bourne-identity-surprise-hit-changed-action-film-making?
From our Books, movies and music section: Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972), a powerful anti-war film from director Kinji Fukasaku, about a woman’s travails in seeking the truth about her Japanese soldier husband years after WWII has ended…
Well worth a watch. From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Flag_of_the_Rising_Sun
From our Books, movies & music section: Sapiens, a fascinating read on the history of mankind, how we got here (spoiler alert: nothing God-given) & how the future will probably not be what we think it will be…
A definitely recommended read, by Yuval Noah Harari.
From our History section: it’s the birthday of poet and Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, who said, “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them”…
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky
From our Books, movies and music section: Gary Cooper (High Noon, For Whom The Bell Tolls and other classics) was born on this date in Helena in 1901…
From History: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gary-cooper-born?
From our Books, movies and music section: on this date in 1941 a movie well worth watching, Citizen Kane, came out…
Almost everything Orson Welles did was worth a watch.
How to have less of an impact on the planet, while making your life pleasantly simpler, from the Zero-Waste-Chef…
From the Zero-Waste-Chef: https://zerowastechef.com/2022/04/13/buy-less-but-better-method/
Cancel culture and censorship are in overdrive, as right-wing extremists seek to ban books in schools…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/04/09/more-than-1500-books-have-been-banned-in-public-schools-and-a-u-s-house-panel-asks-why/?
Smokescreen: a new book explores wildfires, including why conventional logging and thinning can make things worse…
From The Revelator: https://therevelator.org/myths-wildfires-hanson/