May 24, 2015
MK Punky hosts and performs in “Revolutionary Words” at Elderberries Café, in Hollywood
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- A Chinese Man with a Latin Name and Many Dangerous Ideas
May 19, 2019His Chinese title was Mang-tze: Mang the Master. Just as European scholars changed his philosophical predecessor K’ung-fu-tze into “Confucius,” Latin-trained historians of the West called him “Mencius.”
He spent most of his adult life (378-289 B.C.) counseling princes and kings, teaching them to rule like philosophers instead of barbarians. In his final years, he composed — or provided the inspiration for the composition of — one of the most widely read and beloved books of classical Chinese…
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- Knock Down the House
Orginally posted on May 07, 2019The award-winning documentary Knock Down the House by director Rachel Lears, covers four working-class, “regular” women — a registered nurse, a bartender, a coal miner’s daughter — running for Congress during the 2018 mid-term elections, including the sensationally charismatic, eloquent and inspiring Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who, most of us now know, shocked the world by defeating an entrenched...
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