WHAT THE PHILOSOPHER/POET AND THE WHISTLEBLOWER HAVE IN COMMON   Posting as ‘TheTrueHOOHA’   By Bjarne Rostaing Edward Snowden and Henry David Thoreau have little in common other than WASPdom. Snowden is from a respectable middle class family, many of whose members worked for the government, and he happens to have a gift […]

      WHAT THE TRUMP & SANDERS FOLKS HAVE IN COMMON:  RAW ENERGY The Donald knows a good deal from a screwing FOLLOWING THE MONEY; HILLARY ABOVE THE LAW   By Bjarne Rostaing   Where did Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump come from? Their populist armies exploded from nowhere and made them national figures […]

  A VOICE of BALTIMORE BOOK REVIEW Journalist/author Bjarne Rostaing reviews two books by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joby Warrick exclusively for VoB 2 REMARKABLE, REVEALING BOOKS FOCUSING ON THE BEGINNING OF THE ISLAMIC STATE (ISIS/ISIL) BY A REMARKABLE WRITER By Bjarne Rostaing Do we really want to know what happened in Iraq and the Middle […]

        COULD THE DNC’S FORMER NO. 2 EMERGE AS CANDIDATE SANDERS’ FEMALE VP RUNNING MATE? Hawaiian Representative’s gutsy trajectory MANY WOMEN DON’T LIKE CLINTON   By Bjarne Rostaing   A while ago I suggested in Voice of Baltimore that while Elizabeth Warren’s conspicuous absence was critical to Bernie Sanders’ primary election loss […]

        CREATURE DOUBLE-FEATURES AND TALES FROM THE CRYPT SET STAGE FOR 2016 DEBATES Nuclear fear of 1950s/’60s spawned movie madness featuring monsters, ghouls and aliens from outer space ALSO FILM AND TV CHARACTERS WITH MANNERISMS REMINISCENT OF TODAY’S TOP OFFICE SEEKERS POD PEOPLE IN POTUS PROFILE?   By David Maril and Alan […]