(Akiit.com) (***) If the job of an act/thr/hor is to scare the daylights out of you, Beast gets the job done. The success of this film’s eye-catching, ear-grabbing hocus pocus can be traced back to smart direction, near seamless visual/sound effects, tight editing and the supremely talented Idris Elba. “Cujo as a lion” was the goal. Screenwriter Ryan ...
(Akiit.com) It is often said that the measure of character is not in how a person handles triumph, rather it is measured by how a person handles adversity. Often the requirement for a loss is a concession. Like others, I have experienced having to offer a concession speech when things ...
(Akiit.com) “No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”—Theodore Roosevelt If you chanted “Lock her up!” in 2016 ...
(Akiit.com) When Charles Diggs, Jr., won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at least one Black member of Congress. That’s likely to change this year. Because of redistricting, Detroit no longer has majority-Black congressional districts. And in the ...
(Akiit.com) “‘The trouble with almost all environmental problems,’ says Paul R. Ehrlich, the population biologist, ‘is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. … We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 ...
(Akiit.com) I remember a scene from the movie Apocalypse Now when Martin Sheen’s character disembarks the Navy riverine boat at a bridge near the frontlines. He goes down into a bunker and asks, “who is in charge?” A young Black soldier turns to him and says, “ain’t you!” This came ...
(Akiit.com) Every action has a reaction. This election cycle, Democrats are learning the hard way that the same is true in politics. For nearly two years, Joe Biden and Democrats have run the country into the ground with a set of left-wing priorities and radical policies. Now, voters from coast ...
(Akiit.com) French psychologist Gustave Le Bon, illustrating “the mental state of crowds,” wrote about the extent to which the manager of a popular theater of his day used off-stage theatrics to make it almost impossible for his audience to distinguish the “real” from the “unreal.” “[The manager] in consequence of ...
(Akiit.com) The absurdity of this week can’t be overstated. A senile President overseeing a feckless Attorney General ordering a raid on the house of a former President all while they scream about what a “threat to democracy” the mere existence of the former President is. If you’d written it as ...
(Akiit.com) This week, the FBI raided the Florida home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. They based their raid on the purported rationale that they suspected Trump of having mishandled classified information, taking home materials meant for the National Archives: According to The New York Times, the search “appeared ...
(Akiit.com) The case for Joe Biden‘s presidency has always turned on two things: experience and character. Experience in politics has, in recent elections, been a mixed blessing. Unlike in things that really matter, like picking a plumber and electrician or someone to color your hair, all of them choices made ...
(Akiit.com) I have a basic question that I ask related to policy making and leadership, and that basic question is, is it good for the children? Is it good for the children? If it’s not good for the children, we ought not be doing it.” Barbara Sabol has been asking ...