If you can’t spot the mark, then you’re the mark. — Isn’t it funny that difficult economic times bring armies of success gurus and “self-help” experts out of the woodwork who claim that if you just buy their programs you’ll be able to fix your life? After a really bad year for the stock market that wrecked many people’s retirement accounts…

Like most writers, I enjoy reading the works of fellow writers. One article stood out because it described an incident that I immediately recognized as a throwback to the era of ‘Head and Master’ laws in the US. Ah yes, the good old ‘Head and Master laws.’ I remember those…

Britain is fast surpassing the US as an example of social collapse among wealthy developed western nations—largely due to its politically hard-right turn, following the American example. Economically, Britain is poised to become the most far-Right country in the world and the damage has already been done in terms of…

I read an article the other day on Medium that touched on a subject most people still struggle to understand: the horrific, bloody Balkan wars of the 1990s. — Revisiting the death of Yugoslavia — a crime by any other name The destruction and disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, culminating in the 78-day air waged by NATO against…johnwight1.medium.com In 1984, I was 17 years old. It was the year that the winter Olympics were held in Sarajevo, a cosmopolitan Yugoslavian city which was known as “the ‘Jerusalem’ of Eastern Europe.” Yugoslavia was one country with two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, and six republics surrounded by…

Another writer on Medium was shocked at the callous responses he got from conservatives regarding the arrests of 10 year old sex trafficking victims in the US—as a survivor myself, I‘m not surprised. — I Thought I Couldn’t Be Any More Disgusted by Conservative Behavior, Then I Wrote an Article on… The responses gave me a new understanding of right-wing misogynyaninjusticemag.com Hold my beer. As a 55 year old survivor of generational poverty and child sex trafficking, I usually don’t engage with economically privileged non-survivors who write about prostitution debating whether or not it should be legal. But that article wasn’t the usual privilege-on-parade clickbait piece. The writer is disgusted that…

My favorite treat as a four-year-old was an oldie but goodie—Franco-American MacaroniOs — Ask any Gen-Xer born between 1965 and 1972 about foods we remember from our earliest childhood years, and almost all will include Franco-American SpaghettiOs and Franco-American Macaroni and Cheese in their list. …