Posts by Nathan Graziano
On Friday afternoon, both of New Hampshire’s senators joined the gutless minority leader Chuck Schumer and seven other Democratic traitors in voting to pass the GOP House’s obscene Trump-backed spending bill to avert the shutdown of the federal government as our federal government continues to shutdown decency and democracy, laying off millions of American workers.
I never fathomed that I would teach George Orwell’s novel “1984” in a media course. Published in 1949, the novel certainly has its merits as a deeply imaginative work of dystopian fiction, but what could it possibly teach about our contemporary media landscape?
O P I N I O N NOT THAT PROFOUND By Nathan Graziano Here is a personal secret: I have
What I truly admired about these Romantic poets, however, was the fact that it didn’t seem like any of these dudes had to work real jobs. While Keats did train to be a surgeon, he died before he could practice medicine, and guys like Lord Byron didn’t have to put aside “Don Juan” to scrub dishes.
When I was 12 years old, my cousin and I were racing our bikes on the street in front of my aunt and uncle’s house. We were gliding, neck and neck, toward the finish line at the end of the curb, when my cousin pulled ahead, and my front tire clipped my cousin’s back tire, launching me over the handlebars, face first, onto the cement.
It took a glorified carnival barker and his billionaire buddies, led by one of the most soulless and reprehensible people on Planet Earth, putting our democracy in grave peril for me to realize that, other than voting and writing a few op-eds along the way, I have not given much to a democracy that has given me everything, mainly my freedoms.
Aside from being one of the most viewed annual sporting events worldwide, the Super Bowl is primarily a celebration of everything American—gluttony, debauchery, consumerism, violence.
The team, which had dwindled to only three wrestlers during the pandemic, now has more than 30 grapplers taking to the mats for practices and meets on weekdays, while competing in tournaments on weekends.
O P I N I O N NOT THAT PROFOUND By Nathan Graziano Last week, one of my lesson plans
While journalists were seldom recognized at restaurants, the literary landscape had also changed. With the smartphone assuming its role as the slavemaster for most Americans, fewer and fewer people now had the attention span necessary to sit down and read an actual book.