Dr Joseph Borreggine

Let me be me and them be them

Revisado: 04-12-25

A good self help book that certainly was eye opening, but not earth shattering in its precepts. My attitude as of late has been “appease to please” (go along to get along) or “accept to reject” (refuse the lie and believe the truth). The book reinforces these attitudes.

Mel Robbin’s has a story just like we all do. She figured it sooner than later and got it together in a nice toddy neat package to sell to the public and that she did with this book and others she has written along with her syndicated talk show, pod cast, blah blah blah. She is a self proclaimed self-help guru named “Robbin’s”. No relations any way to Tony, but along the same lines of preaching self empowerment.

I was excited to read (or listen) to this book after I had heard about the “Let Them Theory” and how it could possibly fulfill a need to help me move forward with certain personal crises that I was facing at the time and to see how I had been possibly living my life the wrong way.

Yes, this book helped somewhat. But, only with the first two chapters and after that most of the book was not meant for me and my stage in life. I had been there done that and was not going back. I am sure it will help many who need it.

This book certainly has a “Polly Anna” outlook as far as I am concerned, because Mel Robbin’s has it all together or so it seems. She has weathered the storms of her life without much loss and came out the other side unscathed with wealth and popularity.

I am sure she did not do this on her own. She had help and gleamed from those experiences the things that mattered most to be a success and mentally sound person. She then took those bits and pieces of knowledge and called them her own. Good for her! And good for all of us that found this book.

So let them be them and I will let me live my life with a little wider vision rather than having my eyes wide shut. This book does that.

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The Truth shall set you free

Revisado: 03-31-25

A great literary work that unravels the act of the crime and how the punishment is not the prison of steel bars, but rather the will of the mind. How the act of crime is created by thought which turns one to do it, then it is completed. Then, the backlash of the penalty lingers and the punishment looms. How the act of the crime can be rationalized, ignored, or finally is admitted. The latter of which rarely occurs with the prior ideal of rationality muddling up the of being guilty with condition. So, the criminal or the person committing the wanton crime with with forethought or possibly deranged mental state of a person committing a crime for an unexplainable reason are both guilty. However, the malice of one versus confused state of another ultimately plays into the sentencing post conviction. Whatever, the cause crime does not pay anything more than punishment of the person and ultimately the soul.

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These were the best of times…

Revisado: 03-03-25

This book was hard to listen to, I’m sure let alone read…a series of stories about England and France during late 18th century including the parallel of class and society. The French Revolution was abound. England was in disarray after the loss of the American colonies…and a relationship of a couple weaved itself through the storyline. Mr Dickens does it again. A great text of history fictionalized…the best of times the worst of times

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A government for the people and by the people

Revisado: 02-15-25

Executive branch usurpation is a new category concept for me, but not for every POTUS in the last 160 years. This is a power created by the pen. The Executive Order is well known over the last administration and now with Trump’s second term, but it goes far beyond that. This book gives the reader the historical perspective of how the US Constitution gave very little legislative power or involvement to the POTUS, but as history waned and time progress so did executive privilege, power, and usurpation.

Nine POTUS were cited in this book who “screwed up” America. The cover of the book reveals who they are. There are a few that I was shocked to see and others who I knew were progressive Marxists. These POTUS set a precedent that could never be reversed. The fact is they all participated in creating unconstitutional bureaucracies which formed the “4th branch” of government. Because if this evolution of government our federal deficit ballooned into what it is today all with causing the underpinnings of the Constitution to be battered and weakened.

The are four other POTUS that the author mentioned who tried “to save” America. They were four POTUS who truly abided by their presidential oath of office by abiding by the original intent of the Constitution. They were originalists. They did nothing to overstep their power or privilege as POTUS. Unfortunately, even with their combination of years in office they could not change or dismantle the huge leviathan that is known as the federal bureaucracy and all its unelected personnel who control Washington DC.

This is a timely book indeed. With the new Trump administration taking the helm and using DOGE to uncovered all the wasteful confiscatory spending of taxpayer dollars. To expose the corruption that has been long deep routed in an organization created by executive order by JFK in 1961 called USAID that has spent trillions to support many useless causes domestically and internationally. Unabated in responsibility of how these funds were used is the main reason the financial situation of the federal deficit is the way it is. This has been happening in all the other bureaucracies as well. This is all because of executive branch usurpation period end of story.

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She’s got more than you babe

Revisado: 02-04-25

This book was generally a story about a woman who truly was brought up in a household that left her pretty scarred. She has become quite famous through no fault of our own lots of lucky breaks, and having everybody around her that could support her and provide her what she needed financially. I believe she’s nothing more than an operator and an opportunistic person. She happen to be at the right place at the right time every time. Always somebody there to save her This is part one of the biography which brings us from the year 1946 to 1980. Lots of detail, not anything more than we don’t know already nice to have it narrated partially by Cher but other than that it’s a pretty standard fair when it comes to biography not much new under the sun.

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What’s love got to do with it?

Revisado: 01-20-25

A classic novel that has reached through the ages since it was written back in 1818 by a woman. How was that even possible? A woman who was certainly educated. Which was certainly possible and yet I cannot think of famous women who were written back then. I am sure there were a few. But Ms. Shelly, I am sure has to battle quite precipitously to get this book published. And that, she did. She did indeed.

A story of creation of sorts. Bring the power of God into a man’s hand. The result was not a new race of being, but rather a tormented creature ugly in feature and scorn by all who laid eyes upon him. His soul sought love and yet he could not receive it as he had pondered and wished. Through his frustration and wanton need for acceptance he began to toil not only because he was not able to be loved and accepted, but ultimately he was alone. A fear that never would be quench; loneliness.

For this became the fuel to want to leave the Earth, but that did not come to fruition as he had summarily assumed. He had to eliminate the cause of his loneliness first. Just a God had created a woman for man so that he would not be lonely, the creature wanted that too. And has God had created an equal partner for man, so the creature wanted the same. Not only to quench the loneliness, but to ultimately fulfill his desire to be loved.

Confronting his creator this wretched soul had his request initially rejected to have a life partner. With his tearful begging it was still refuted and, then a threat of violence was used toward his creator and all that he loved to bolster his request, and that still did not change his mind. However, after some time of solitude on what was being asked, the creator moved hence forth, but would he do it?

Read on you will see. This book certainly is not the story that Hollywood bastardized on the screen. A much better story than that in all its version. A book truly for the ages indeed.

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Who shot JFK?

Revisado: 01-10-25

Oliver Stone and Roger Stone are two different people and the story is the same. Who killed JFK? Nobody really knows…this entire book is based on “facts” that have been continually rehashed time and time again. And in the great words of RFK, “What does it really matter he’s dead!” The Warren commission is the only real report that most people are going to accept and everything else is based on conspiracy. I’ve had the opportunity to visit Daley Plaza in Dallas and there is a national museum at the book depository and then there’s a conspiracy museum, whichever you decide to agree with or not is up to you and this book may or may not change your mind.

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Say hello to my little friend

Revisado: 12-31-24

A book about the famous and well known movie actor; his autobiography, Al Pacino. The story opens with his upbringing and then meticulously delves into his acting career along with the intermingled life and relationships. Nothing really new here with respect to who we know. We’ve seen about 80% of it in movies and the other was on stage. He is an actor period. But, it’s what we don’t know that keeps us turning the page. We want more!! He’s better at acting than living life which unfortunately is attributed to his upbringing and background. Alcohol and drugs kept him upright for a time. Lots of baggage in his overhead compartment. He is a character in real life as well as in screen and stage, but his real life character is all over the place. He truly needs a 500 pound gorilla to get him back on track most of the time (just like his best friend, Cliff would tell him). Pacino made it along time on his eccentric attitude and he made the right choices for that moment in time. Whether the result was what he expected was something he found out sometimes way too late. But, that is Al…always trying to figure it out…just when he thought he was out they pull back in. A life, a career, and the future “That’s Al folks”

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Nothing new regarding “Here’s Johnny”!

Revisado: 12-02-24

Really nothing new under the sun when it comes to this book. There’s been multiple books written about the life of Johnny Carson and the Tonight Show. This book in particular provide a lot of insight to many of the periodical and newspaper articles filled with factoids about Johnny and the Tonight Show. Henry Bushkin book was probably better than this one. That was the last one that I read and probably will stick to that book as the main stay of anything about Johnny. This was a very fair book and nothing more than that. Nothing new to define “Here’s Johnny”

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Giddy Up!

Revisado: 10-27-24

This book was very transparent, talking about his life in such a way that the reader ends up seeing how a comedian is a tragedy in shape of a smile very similar. How Michael Richards came to be on this planet; a byproduct of something tragic. It took many years for him to finally get the truth.

However, this truth left him without any real answers as to why he was who he was. He did not have a father at all. He had a mother that never wanted him and was raised by a grandmother who is schizophrenic, the way out of this tragic life was to become an actor and eventually a comedian.

The comedian that he became left a mark in the entertainment industry that will never be forgotten. How he provides how we got there is quite interesting indeed. His writing of this transcript was cathartic and therapeutic, bringing him to the point of understanding, how he got where he is today.

However, the underlying demon that lived deep inside him was suppressed by a character he created for the show called Seinfeld that character truly was his armor. He was uncomfortable with himself; an introvert. This is truly why a comedian is who they are. They always are making fun of themselves directly or indirectly to make people laugh at them. A punishment of sorts. They are control of the insult of laughter for their benefit or detriment.

However, the criticism of his self talk deep inside and buried truly left him very vulnerable. For nine years while playing the character of Kramer. he was hidden deep within himself. Kramer was his ultra ego. The fantasy became his reality and left him without an identity.

Michael is quite the intelligent intellectual who honed his craft for years whether by going to best acting schools, being an actor as a result, then doing out of the ordinary standup. All in the name wearing a mask to disguise his true self.

Even though he was recognized for his talent by his peers and by many in public eye fortified by winning awards and many obtaining many accolades for portraying this character, he was never comfortable in his own skin. But once the show ended, his was left with the great words of Elliot Gould, “Enjoy it while it lasts”. That enjoyment of entertaining the public validated his persona in such a way that he did not know what to do after it was over. The enjoyment turned into malaise.

He knew his success had changed his life, but did it. He still never knew who the real Michael Richard was. When he did finally find out, then his life came crashing down around him. Even though he was eating healthy, exercising, and living without resorting to addictions such as alcohol or drugs, he still never could grapple with his true self.

He tried to hide from himself by disappearing into the massesare going into a solitude to try to identify where he had gone wrong. He had made many mistakes driven by fear and anger which were closely connected. His comedy was his therapy as it was for all who saw him.

This book opens up many doors, not only in the writers life but the reader as well who can identify, the tragedies of their own life. We as human beings are flawed and there’s nothing we can do about it or can we? This memoir truly was his masterpiece just as this person we know as Michael Richards a.k.a. Kramer who provided us laughter, smiles, and a balm that was a soothing ointment to our soul to quell whatever was going on to escape from ourselves. We tuned in every week to laugh and to forget about our woes.

This book provides a truth, not only about the character that he portrayed, but the person he had become. The truth and the light set him free. Giddy up!!

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