About Brian Wright

Hello, I'm Brian Wright, the proprietor and chief content provider to this Web opinion and review site. The Coffee Coaster (thecoffeecoaster.com) has been around since late 2006, and in early 2012 I finally decided to give the site a major makeover with this Wordpress implementation. My views are 'wholistic libertarian,' meaning focused on the spiritual--I like to use the word: essentual--evolution we will need, individually, in order to reach the New Paradigm of peace, freedom, and abundance. Let's help one another in the process.

Movie Review: The Company Men (2010)

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Brian Wright

Home companion to Inside Job ____ 7.5/10

Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper): My life ended and nobody noticed.

It seems to me this film makes the perfect companion to another film I reviewed recently, Inside Job, an investigation of the so-called Bailout of 2008. It simply seems that if one knows who raided—and continues to raid—the Great American Cookie Jar, one has a fair notion of fundamental causes of economic malaise… the kind that causes credit contraction, widespread business failures, and massive layoffs such as the one that afflicts the lead character in The Company Men: Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck). Continue reading →

Guest Column: The Feds vs. the Fourth

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Brian Wright

Future of Freedom perspective
by Jacob Hornburger

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: The Jesus Catharsis, Part 1

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Brian Wright

Life, death, and love among the gentiles*
by Brian Wright

FLOW Never in my life have I felt the alignment of celestial forces as I do today. The proximate causes are “my twins'” viscerally negative reaction to Mother’s Stone and the ceremony celebrating the passage of a good friend of mine back into the realm of the Great Spirit. The combination of insights of these two watershed events, along with my persistence in wanting to identify the spiritual solution that will free humankind—not to mention yours truly—from the unfriendly intentions of the Cabal, moves me along to a release or catharsis that can help virtually everyone.[1] Continue reading →

Book Review: Nonaggression Faith: SNaP Module #7

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Brian Wright

Turning the SNaP into a winning spiritual practice
by Brian Wright

This review represents the final module in my so-called Liberation Technology User’s Guide series (of seven): Nonaggression Faith. In this short book I lay down the foundations in creed, doctrine, and general requirements for a ‘religion’ and ‘church.’ Note the quotation marks around the two terms, necessitated by so many negative reactions to the unbracketed words. By religion I mean:

… an integrated system of belief in, reverence for, and practice of a supreme universal principle or idea, intended to bring spiritual fulfillment. Continue reading →

Movie Review: City Slickers (1991)

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Brian Wright

A little deeper than many of us recall ___ 7.5/10

Mitch Robbins: “Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you’re a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, “What happened to my twenties?” Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Studies Show ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ are More Sane…

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Brian Wright

New studies show conspiracy theorists tend to be sane,
while government dupes are crazy, hostile
by Top Information Post

Referred to me by Jack Shimek in the solid and persistent Facebook Group, Merrimack Valley 9/11 Truth. Studies have been done, peer-reviewed. Not surprisingly to those of us in the Core Truth movement, men and women who question the official stories of major public crimes or attacks are generally more open-minded and rational than those who blindly obey whatever the government authority structure tells them. Duh! But a welcom addition to the arsenal, more science amassed on the side of the good guys. Continue reading →

Book Reviews: The Farrah Chronicles (2011)

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Brian Wright

Ninety minutes in the life of a very shaky girl
by Christine Mahoney

For those who feel the recently emerging author-directed alternative publishing technology tends to produce mundane work, The Farrah Chronicles will challenge your presumptions. This small story of a young woman’s journey through stylish neighborhoods of broken dreams and borderline sanity is a sparkling diamond of imagination. Written in first person via flashback, we’re first introduced to Farrah (29) as she’s being retrieved by her parents—and into their court-directed care—from an ‘institution.’ She finds it a little more than ironic that the state is placing her safekeeping ‘in the questionable hands of the very people who endangered it. Indefinitely.’ The next nine months provide the context of her reminiscences, as Farrah chronicles through her ninety-minute psychotherapy sessions (with the highly credentialed and determined Genie) what has brought her to this stage. As Farrah puts it: Continue reading →