T J Martin
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We Are Drowning In Messaging, but There Is Less Conversation Than Ever
By T J Martin The Magic Words, Please and … Some people are notoriously difficult to shop for! Lest I be taken for an Ebenezer, though, I submit to the yearly ritual of second-guessing sizes, tastes, needs, wants, and frivolities of family members—usually at the last possible moment. Any post-Christmas reprieve is short, however, given…
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Is ‘Diversity’ Being Used Ironically to Cancel Beliefs and Ideas?
By T J Martin Although I have known many as friends, neighbours, teachers, even beloved family members, I am not a Catholic—either by training or faith. I have attended Catholic services, both in small churches and venerable cathedrals such as New York’s Saint Patrick’s where I marvelled at the beauty and reverence of Christmas Mass.…
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Got Drugs?
By T.J. Martin I believe in the rule of law. From its lofty concepts such as equal representation and presumption of innocence to its more mundane applications, the rule of law provides a sturdy, time-tested foundation for how we conduct our lives. I respect the law and those, like peace officers, whose job it is…
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Anthony Submitted to an Injection He neither Wanted nor Needed
By T J Martin In Good Faith: Anthony Sanchelli, One Man’s Experience Perhaps now, after almost three years, memories of those dark, fear-filled days have begun to fade. It has become easier to dismiss the isolation. The contagion. The lockdowns. Schools and businesses shuttered. Travel and mobility restricted or forbidden. But have we forgotten the…
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Were They Jabbed?
By T J Martin Truth: The Ultimate Condolence Forget religion. Forget politics. There’s a new unmentionable these days. A new elephant occupies the room—ungainly, bulky, but largely silent. Most people, out of respect and decorum, will not ask. But the shocking spate of unexplained and untimely deaths begs the unvoiced questions: “Was he jabbed?” “Did…
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Orwell’s Dystopian Novel ‘1984’ Compared to Today
By T J Martin “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Winston Smith [main protagonist] is an anachronism, first entering the public consciousness in 1949 with the publication by George Orwell of his seminal work 1984.1 Poor, sad Winston embodied Orwell’s fictional glimpse into a dark dystopia, then…