agmoore (@agmoore)
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Remembering Gloria Steinem: What Is a Feminist?
I am a feminist. I realize, when I use that word it means different things to different people. So I ask my readers to wipe their minds clean of all the changes that have taken place to the concept...
[Movie] Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: The Final Days of Rhodesia
>! [Spoiler] hidden text https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoDuyG6jLyA Sometimes we watch movies to distract ourselves, and sometimes we watch them because we want to experience a kind of truth. The ...
A Brief Absence
I see by checking my activities that the last time I commented or voted on Hive was two days ago. I don't use automatic voting, so there has been radio silence on my end for two days. Fortunately, ...
Treating an Adrenal Tumor With Microwave Ablation: After Procedure Report
On July 11 of this year I wrote a blog about a friend who had cancer. My 'friend' was about to undergo a procedure that was intended to kill a tumor on his adrenal gland. As some readers might have...
A Review of Make Room! Make Room!
Imagine: 35,000,000 people living in New York City. Imagine: water is so scarce in the city that it is rationed, and needs to be collected and carried home in containers. Imagine a home that may be...
Advice I Wish I Never Gave
The woman was quite elderly. She walked with difficulty, kind of a side to side tilt as though lifting each foot took concentration. Overall, she did not look well. I had never seen her before at t...
Abdul El-Sayed and 'The Establishment'
There is a restlessness in the U. S. electorate these days, a general air of discontent. While a minority of the population strongly supports the direction in which the nation is heading (30% belie...
[Movie] The Power of the Dog: My Take
The Power of the Dog is a love story. That’s probably not how most people would describe the film, but love is the driving force of the four main characters. However, as Shakespeare showed us in Ot...
We Call Him Mr. Cat
Shall I tell you about Mr. Cat? That's not what my daughter calls him, and he is her cat after all. But the name Mr. Cat seems to give him the stature he deserves. Mr. Cat is not docile. He definit...
Review of A Quiet Place: Day One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPY7J-flzE8 I loved this movie. It is one of four movies in the Quiet Place series. The other movies are A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part II and A Quiet Place Part ...
Hiking in Eastern Maryland
My daughter went to Annapolis, Maryland last month. At first she tried to reserve a spot in a camp ground, but they were all booked in her target area, so she instead rented an Airbnb. She was trav...
The Mute Swan, Beautiful and "Prohibited" in New York
My daughter goes to the beach just about any day a thunderstorm doesn't prevent that recreation. Rain is not a disincentive, as long as there are no booming clouds overhead. A couple of weeks ago s...
They Cloned Tyrone: A Review
Spoiler Alert Spoiler Alert I don't consider what I write in this review to be spoilers, because I don't reveal how the film ends. However, I do discuss many plot elements. https://www.youtube.com/...
Are We 21st Century Pirates?
Piracy along the Barbary Coast once challenged the very survival of the United States. The fees for safe passage extracted by the pirates were so great that they represented a large portion of the ...
Oligometastatic Cancer: An Opportunity for Treatment
Hope Credit:George Frederik Watts (1817-1904). 1855 Public domain.jpg) Oligometastatic cancer. Quite a mouthful, but one that offers solace in the midst of an unwelcome diagnosis. Most of us have u...