Tag: Current Events

He wasn’t sure, Stanley Pivot, that is he, whether the burning pilot in an iron cage was guilty enough to warrant death by fire. Bomb those who are ISIS favoured? I think not.

The following sentences are memorial of the death of Berkin Elvan a 15 year old Turkish boy who was struck by a teargas canister shot by police who were sent to disperse protesters of the building of a mall in Gezi Park. Berkin was on his way to the store to buy bread for his family. […]

There aren’t but a few citizens in North America, if not the world, who don’t know the craziness of American gun laws, at the State and Federal level. For example the Stand and Deliver rule in Florida or the Right to Carry law in any number of states. 

Robben Island, South Africa’s Alcatraz, had not suffered a loss for 27 years, until the S.A. government released its most notorious tenant according to what it had decreed. Life imprisonment was the unexpected verdict, but twenty-seven years was all that was served, the rest of the world deeming finally that the penalty was too harsh […]

Recently Stanley Pivot had been listening to an AM radio station that plays clips of well known stand-up comic’s and the longer he listened the more he disliked what he heard. The laughter from the audience which was apparently there before the comic began to seem to Stanley to be nothing more than a laugh track stuck in behind […]

He Said: “The more I read the cables [720,000 of them] the more I came to the conclusion that this type of information should become public • • . I thought that these cables were a prime example of the need for more open diplomacy” 

I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely a second Second Coming is at hand. For somewhere in the sands of the desert a shape with lion body and head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun Is moving its slow thighs, […]

Dear Reader, He was asking Stanley Pivot how what he wrote about was decided upon. He answered “What needed to be said, wasn’t being said.” And so he risked stating these thoughts at the chance that they might not be printed. The world as Stanley perceived it was much more primitive than it used to […]

“We will find you. We will hold you accountable.”  Barack Obama Stanley was reading the front page headlines of the Toronto Globe and Mail, Friday April 19, 2013, a few days after the pressure cooker bombs went off disrupting a premier American cultural event, the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators/participants. 

Stanley Pivot didn’t know what to think. What prompted the lengthy message in Turkish? Where did it come from? Who sent it? Was it a warning from a disgruntled reader of his Book-format of his website? Were there pieces there which the reader didn’t agree with, and had threatened reprisal in the Turkish Stanley didn’t understand? Why was it […]