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The new Frida Kahlo. Are Appearances Deceiving?

September 21, 2023 By Karl Leave a Comment

New Frida Kahlo

  If my prior post showed skepticism about the latest self-reinvention of Paris Hilton, then this post is different.  I invite you to learn about the private life of well-respected Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. After you learn some of the against-type characteristics of the artist's personal life, reflect on whether Kahlo’s unconventional life seems more real and honest than Hilton’s. BTW, search my website for other posts about "appearances being deceiving,"  like my … [Read more...]

Appearances can be deceiving – President Kennedy’s health

March 14, 2021 By Karl 3 Comments

JFK's Appearances

As a '60s liberal, I swallowed whole  the  storyline about our new president, John F. Kennedy. If appearances could be trusted, he was young, vigorous, and courageous (rescuing a fellow sailor in WWII.) Just the man to usher  in the so-called Camelot years. I was a high school junior with a surgically repaired cleft-lip-and palate, finally able to talk without tell-tale nasality. But I'd been restricted from PE thru middle-school and from competitive sports  during high school. Thus, I … [Read more...]

How to be a CLEFT HEART book booster and reap rewards.

December 9, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Book cover of Cleft Heart: Chasing Normal

Thought some of you Cleft Heart book fans might get a kick out of seeing a photo (top right of the collage below) of politicians Pelosi and Schumer under an umbrella in D.C, back in the day. Actually, it's my sister Barbara and me in front of the U.S. Capitol after my dad mustered out of the military as a journalist in Washington, D.C. for the Navy's All Hands magazine. My loving sis  wrote last year about growing up with a brother with clefts here and here. She wanted to add to the book I'd … [Read more...]

Peyton Manning: Special treatment re sex scandal?

September 23, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

3/4 shots of Manning w football juxtaposed with & Naughright in black dress. Preferential treatment?

Today's blog begins to transition from the main prior focus of the website (clefts, disabled heroes, etc.). It embraces a newly added focus, loosely called 'discrimination' which includes special treatment of males, superstars, etc. by society. This blog features a compelling combination of both the former focus and the current focus of my website. The key phrase is "Peyton Manning cleft palate special treatment." Peyton Manning cleft palate special treatment. A little known fact about Peyton … [Read more...]

My brother’s clefts: When birth defects aren’t defects-Compete & Cooperate

August 3, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Welcoming baby Steven—w/o birth defects.

A Disability, or Not? By Barbara Schonborn I didn’t think my brother Karl had birth defects. Nor did I think his cleft lip and cleft palate were disabilities. When we were children, Karl was just my competitor or my buddy. Brother with no birth defects completes the family. Steven, my second brother, was born when our family lived next door to our grandparents Schonborn in a rural neighborhood of Puyallup, Washington. Steven had no birth defects. His nose and mouth were normal, and he … [Read more...]

My brother’s clefts: When birth defects aren’t defects – Infancy to surgery.

July 27, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Barbara & Karl, ready to face the world in Wash,DC

I didn’t think of my brother Karl’s cleft lip and cleft palate as birth defects or disabilities.   These birth defects a disability, or not? Guest blog by Barbara Schonborn** Part One: From Infancy to early surgeries. A Princess Usurped. Until I was almost two years old, my life was idyllic. My mother read to me often—I sitting in her lap, a book in mine. She sewed clothes for me, cooked for my father and me, and took me to the Sunday nursery at our church in Boise, Idaho. I knew how … [Read more...]

Cocaine, mental illness, trauma: What killed Carrie Fisher?

July 1, 2017 By Karl 6 Comments

The Fishers with Carrie...and Cocaine

      I'm working on a memoir tentatively titled Four Murders and a Funeral.  In one of the murders, powdered cocaine plays a role. At least that's what the defendant and his attorney would like us to believe. Whether  the drug was to blame for the murder and whether addiction was involved is part of the story I tell. Cocaine  Carrie Fisher's use of cocaine never became much of a criminal justice issue. Some feel celebs get a pass for behavior that lands others of us  in … [Read more...]

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New Frida Kahlo

The new Frida Kahlo. Are Appearances Deceiving?

  If my prior post showed skepticism about the latest self-reinvention of Paris Hilton, then this post is different.  I invite you to learn about the private life of well-respected Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. After you learn some of the against-type characteristics of the … [Read More...]

Appearances can be deceiving -Paris H

The new Paris Hilton. Are Appearances Deceiving?

  One of the themes in this website is "Appearances can be deceiving." In one blog  I wrote about the deceptive appearance of President John F. Kennedy. In my last blog  I tried to show (and explain to a degree), Paris Hilton's "Barbie" doll phase. We'll look at a number of statements … [Read More...]

Appearances can be deceiving -Paris H

Paris Hilton – the First Human Barbie?

It's no surprise that Margot Robbie is playing the first human Barbie in her new movie. Her looks and stature make her a natural to portray Mattel's doll introduced in 1959.  But Paris Hilton, too, can resemble the most famous toy of all. And so Paris may've beaten Margot to the punch as the first … [Read More...]

Report shows Minneapolis Police Bias

    Attorney General Merrick Garland unveiled the Minneapolis police bias report 10 days ago. It confirmed what hundreds of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters suspected:The Minneapolis police has a problem with explicit and implicit bias. I've written many blogs on these … [Read More...]

Voskerichian, among Berkowitz's murder victims. He faked insanity.

Insanity in the courtroom: detecting Fakery – Part II

This blog is a continuation of last month's blog about insanity in court cases.A number of years ago, a New York courtroom tried  Pedro Hernandez for the murder of Etan Patz who was one of the first missing children to be featured on a milk carton.  The defendant said at one point that he put Etan … [Read More...]

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