Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 6, 2025 in Blog |
MY PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT (LONG POST)
Forgive the self-indulgence which follows. I need to address a few things and announce a few changes.
I’ve taken a break recently from my usual public activism. Admittedly, right now is the wrong time to NOT engage in advocacy and current affairs. Call this pause a serious abdication of citizen responsibility. Common decency demands more of us–all of us. Decent people must speak out. The dangers we face are real. The consequences of silence and indifference are self-evident, and likely about to worsen.
During my sabbatical, I resisted the daily urge to post on Facebook. Moreover, I ceased meaningful social media exchanges. I also suspended my own personal writings at my website and sidelined my contributions to online content sites that regularly publish my work which gives much wider attention to my ideas . I also limited my own social engagements–aside from usual home life. This inactivity wasn’t born out of any resentment or to make a protest. It wasn’t even planned. It just happened.
What created this diaspora of detachment?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 5, 2025 in Blog |
THE END OF PBS AND THE RISE OF MASS MAGA PROPAGANDA
What kind of sick sycophantic stooges *celebrate* the looming mass cancellations of longtime-running popular television programs like Sesame Street and Nova?
Seriously! Look at what this sick and demented society has become. These MAGA Trumpsters are some really twisted and perverted fucks. Openly cheering the cancellation of science and children’s educational programming? Really??? Hell, they drool at taking food out of the mouths of hungry schoolchildren (school lunches being slashed) and apparently don’t give a rat’s ass that Trump and his rich friends have doodled hundreds and perhaps thousands of teenagers (Epstein/Trump Files) ——- so what’s the big freakin’ deal about losing a kid’s TV show? So typical of MAGA depravity.
There are no words. But, I’l try to sling a few choice comments here and now.
READ: CPB says it is shutting down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on May 14, 2025 in Blog |
TURNING POINT: THE VIETNAM WAR (NETFLIX SERIES–REVIEW)
“You will kill 10 of us, we will kill one of you. But in the end you will tire first.” — Ho Chi Minh
“We’re killing these people at a ratio of 10 to 1.” — Army Gen. William Westmoreland, U.S. supreme commander in Vietnam
“Westy, the American people don’t care about the 10, they care about the one.” — Sen. Fritz Hollings, a decorated World War II veteran from Westmoreland’s home state of South Carolina
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago. The recent anniversary date (April 30, 1975) prompted several retrospectives–old and new. As is the case with many historical events, the passage of time does provides a broader, deeper, and clearer perspective of what really happened. Much like a forest and the trees, some distance away from the subject often provides the best vantage point.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on May 13, 2025 in Blog |
THE PHONE AND TEXT STING:
Here’s a phone scam someone tried to pull on me last Sunday, on Mother’s Day. I’m sharing this here and now because readers out there could also be vulnerable and fall for it, and therefore should be warned. The scam came perilously close to success, which could have cost me thousands of dollars. Read carefully, and look, and listen, for red flags.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on May 13, 2025 in Blog |
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS (1997)
Today, in the year 2025, it’s 90° outside and the wind is blowing like crazy. Which reminds me of the same date 28 years ago on this day in near identical conditions when the world championship of poker finale was played outdoors.
What? Poker? Outside?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on May 6, 2025 in Blog |
MY THOUGHTS ON USA-CANADA RELATIONS
Why is Canada’s Mark Carney meeting today with someone who continues to lie out of his ass, hurls repeated insults, and spews idiotic delusions of grandeur about seizing control of a sovereign nation with a long history and proud people with the second-largest land mass in the world?
Meeting with Trump today at the White House isn’t just a blundering badly-timed mistake for Canada’s newly-elected Prime Minister. It’s madness. It’s like negotiating for your own lunch money with the 5th grade bully, on his playground.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on May 5, 2025 in Blog |
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA (1989)
I love this picture. Such fond memories of great people. That’s George and Betty, who were assigned with me to the American Embassy in Bucharest.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on May 4, 2025 in Blog |
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
GOLD STRIKE CASINO (TUNICA, MISSISSIPPI) — 2000
Note: As I mentioned in yesterday’s posts, I found another box tucked away inside my garage. It’s packed with hundreds of old photographs I haven’t looked at in years. Before I toss most of them away, in the coming weeks and months ahead, I’ll be sharing many of the most interesting images in this historical treasure trove and also tell the stories behind them, that is, if there’s something of value to share.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on May 4, 2025 in Blog |
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
YANKEE STADIUM (NEW YORK, NY) — 1979
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on May 4, 2025 in Blog |
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
LAS VEGAS (1986)
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