Wonders and Thanks

Wonders & Thanks

This week of Thanksgiving, let's be thankful for Gal Gadot, the Wonder Woman wonder, and "everyone" associated with the movie, for getting out from under producer Brett Ratner.  Ratner, whose company RatPack-Dune helped finance the first WW film has been accused of sexual harassment and assault. Gadot has her own story about him.

In an interview on the Today show, Gadot confirmed that Ratner would no longer be financing the Wonder Woman franchise, reported the staff writers of Women in the World (NYT)— though she ended  rumors that she had threatened to quit the film if Ratner stayed on as a player. Listen to what she said: “The truth is, there’s so many people involved in making this movie — it’s not just me — and they all echoed the same sentiments,” Gadot told staff writers of Women in the World (NYT). “So everyone knew what was the right thing to do.” 

We're thankful to "so many people" this year who spoke up, and who agreed on what was right: no more pussy-putdowns by men who just are not funny. Thanks too for WiW. 

So What Exactly Is Screwnomics* ???

Screwnomics* is the unspoken but widely applied economic theory that women should always work for less, or better, for free. 

And who thought he didn't have to talk openly about this, or stop taking us and our Mother Earth for granted?

EconoMan is my Screwnomics' name for the money guys in charge of how we live. Let's change his attitude, shall we?  

A Century of Big Brother in the US

This slideshow from Cato Institute probably won't help you feel better about Trump's Whitehouse, but it underlines the importance of Congressional investigation of the "intelligence community," (a weird phrase if ever there was one) and of General Flynn and Trump campaign phone calls to Russia. This picture is of  Jesse Wallace Hughan whose anti-enlistment organization was spied on in 1915. Cato left out Emma Goldman, deported for her WWI anti-draft message, pointing to collusion between government and big business. How long has the war on terror been breaking us taxpayers? A century?

Yes, it would be nice if we could "get along" with Russia (and North Korea and China and Iran), but let's start with seeing all parts of our government and taking seriously its charge for the common welfare.  A CSPAN guest talked about this hundred-year history, well worth viewing. 

www.cato.org/american-big-brother