(Akiit.com) “The poor will always be with us,” say the cynics. No doubt, some will always be wealthier than others. We wouldn’t want to live in a society that forced all to be equal. But poverty isn’t inevitable. The 30 million people in America who lived in poverty even before ...
(Akiit.com) TIFF has always been a haven for black films and artists. And now, in this year of BLM, it has stepped up its game showing a particular reverence for African diaspora films. In 2020, film festivals are finding creative ways to present movies to a vast audience as safely as ...
(Akiit.com) “Chaos.” “Painful.” “Dispiriting.” “The worst presidential debate in American history.” “The lowest point in American political culture in my lifetime.” You get the idea. These are responses, from Donald Trump supporters and Donald Trump opponents, to the first 2020 presidential debate Tuesday night. I detect a note of shell ...
(Akiit.com) Consider this mind experiment. It is September 2016. Democrats control the United States Senate, 54-44, with two independents who caucus with the Democrats. In the upcoming election, 24 Democratic seats are in play, versus 10 Republican seats. Therefore, the Democrats’ continued control over the Senate is anything but a ...
(Akiit.com) Albert Einstein is attributed with saying, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” I am uncertain as to what circumstances led him to this conclusion, but I am certain that as humanity progresses, we humans often “become too big for our britches.” History provides a litany ...
(Akiit.com) When the title of a film is more vibrant than anything you’ll see on the screen, it’s an issue. The source material for this meandering and overly sentimental coming-of-age drama is the bestselling novel of the same name by Norwegian author Per Petterson. The focus is on a 67-year-old man named Trond (Stellan Skarsgård, Chernobyl) who relocates ...
(Akiit.com) It’s so easy to blame somebody else. Donald Trump blames everything on somebody else while he takes responsibility for nothing. Everything has to satisfy his ego or in his mind, it’s fake news. So, he lies to keep the American people from panicking! He fails at that because no ...
(Akiit.com) While we are all familiar with the symbol of Lady Justice that appears inside courthouses and courtrooms all around America, a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales in one hand and a sword in the other. Lady Justice is a sight we are all familiar with. She is ...
(Akiit.com) On the Friday before Labor Day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly report, The Employment Situation. It reported good news – the unemployment rate dropped to 8..4 percent, higher than in February before the pandemic hit. We added 1.4 million jobs last month, the highest gain since ...
(Akiit.com) Warner Bros delayed the release of Tenet during the pandemic until it could open it in theaters. It was a wise decision. The film belongs on a big screen. In fact, for maximum effect, viewers should consider experiencing the movie in an IMAX theater. Director/writer Christopher Nolan is nearly unequaled when it comes to giving ...
(Akiit.com) US history is filled with examples of protests that have gone well. Many events like this end without a single bit of violence or crime, with everyone leaving having had the chance to have their voices heard. Over 2020, though, BLM protests across America have been sullied by acts ...
(Akiit.com) To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes. Certainly, they were a novelty. As novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “We’ve never before responded to a contagion by closing down whole countries.” As I noted in May, the 1957-58 Asian flu killed between 70,000 and 116,000 Americans, between ...