Pet

Pet is a love story between two people who experience love in totally different ways. Holly experiences love as a bolt of lightening …that only strikes the other person. What it brings her is relief from feeling alone and 'unlovable', which is how she has felt most of her life. But the relief is short-term. It only lasts until they breakup or the other person does something to betray her …like cheat. For Holly, love isn’t what she gives …it’s what she gets …like self-worth. Seth experiences love as something he feels and has  available to give to another. It's not a bolt of lightening that happens all at once but something that develops slowly over time. Love is  work and  requires sacrifice.   When you think about it, they're the ideal couple. However, one of them is a homicidal psychopath while the other appears somewhere on the autistic spectrum. One couldn’t hurt a fly while one has the other locked in a cage against their will.

Weapons Delivery

Unforeseen Consquences

American political leaders call for military action because it seems like a decisive and strong thing to do. But restraint often takes greater resolve. Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu once wrote: “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance by clever means ...before fighting. If you know neither your enemy nor yourself, you will be defeated in every battle." By repeatedly engaging in interventions without a proper understanding of our enemy ...and without a better understanding of the consequences of our own actions (stabilizing the region !?) ...we have weakened our nation security, not bolstered it. Terrorism perpetuates terrorism ...and right now in the eyes of the Middle East we are the terrorists. The law of unforeseen consequences does not reward recklessness.

Graffiti artist

Trump is a tagger. He uses Twitter like graffiti to shout-out opinions, reactions and rants. One hundred and forty characters hardy describe complex events. It does not seem like a feasible way to bypass traditional news media unless you consider slogans, clichés and name-calling news. Twitter is a narrow channel of communication. So I think it’s more like graffiti. Gangs use graffiti to mark territory and insult rival gangs. Perhaps Trump represents a wider cross-section of the population than I give him credit for.