The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Friday, October 31, 2025

Understanding

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Descartes Reading comprehension starts to be measured in grammar school. Of course, who knows what the dreaded future will hold! Forget AI! ...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

The Omnivorous Rodent

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  Say you want to eat the world. The problem is you've become a cockroach, genus Gregor Samsa and there is only so much space in your gu...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Is Democracy Dead?

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  I s this Dresden after the fire bombing? Politically democracy has been mortally wounded. One cannot turn back the socio-economic structur...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The Godfather Grandfathered

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J ust when you thought organized crime was relegated to film-- and picking up the trash, one discovers the Mafia is grandfathered into the c...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Make It New

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  Citroen 2CV "Make it new," said Ezra Pound. Perhaps he didn’t even know what that meant. Does "new" refer to a poetic ...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Pizza, Natural Selection, Regime Change and the East Wing Demolition

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East Wing Demolition (PBS) Prehistoric man didn't go down to Third Avenue for a slice. In fact pizza is a product of natural selection a...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Darling

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J ulie Christie, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey are the triangle at the heart of Darling  (1965) -- currently completing a run at Film For...
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Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). His collection of parables, The Kafka Studies Department with illustrations by Hallie Cohen will appear in September.
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