R.J. Cirillo

With apologies to Jay North, who played “Dennis the Menace” in the old TV show and died recently. This picture of him grabbed my attention when it came up on my phone. It seemed to illustrate the attitude of the current regime, pedaling full tilt into a dysfunctional authoritarian state. The opening quote is from […]

There is a short story written in 1841 by Edgar Allen Poe called “A Descent into the Maelstrom.” It tells the tale of a mariner at sea caught in a giant whirlpool. IMHO we ourselves are currently spiraling downward in a similar predicament. Hard to say when this malevolent spin of events began. Was it