by John Mancini | Dec 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Imagine our world without ‘wireless fidelity’, Wi-Fi for short. The cell phone, radio, radar, and broadcast television unite the globe using Nature – the very air we breathe – as the medium. Just as Cristoforo Colombo united mankind with that first courageous...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Dec 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
What does beautiful Millennium Park in Abuja, Nigeria have to do with Italy? The Internet can be a mind-numbing rabbit hole but sometimes it yields some genuine nuggets. It started with an old YouTube clip I saw of the Black conservative Thomas Sowell (still...
by John Mancini | Dec 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
“We are all brothers under the skin…” has been attributed to Russian Jewish libertarian Ayn Rand. The rest of that quote is not so altruistic: “…and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.” For the past few years, the ‘elite’ utopians in...
by John Mancini | Nov 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Rumor has it that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to cap her career by being the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. She would be a shoe-in with a Democratic Senate to confirm her if nominated by President Biden. At 82-years-old the posting to Rome would be a...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Nov 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
A family member recently lamented the current chaos of our times – the political, racial, and sexual polarization in the U.S.– with the following comment: “I’m glad I grew up in the 1950s. Kids were allowed to be kids. You didn’t see this gun...
by John Mancini | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
One day at college an African American dorm-mate snidely remarked that the Italian Army was a joke in World War II. Those were the days just before The Godfather – book and movies – so the main “embarrassment” Italian Americans had to deal with was Mussolini’s...
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