Monthly Archives: December 2007

Wicked – Novella – Chapter 1

December 19, 2007 – 12:58 pm

WICKED – A novella by PETER NOLAN SMITH CHAPTER 1 An early summer breeze rustled through the narrow meadow to a burned circle. The charred grass had been trampled by countless feet. None had worn shoes in their orbit around the crudely-cut pole topped by an animal skull. The bone gleamed white in the afternoon [...]

By Peter | Posted in Fiction | Comments (0)

When the punishment fits the crime

December 17, 2007 – 11:44 am

MONTREAL (AFP) – After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get “Guitar Hero III” video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars. The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard.

By Peter | Posted in Crime | Comments (0)

CCTV SOI 6

December 16, 2007 – 10:53 pm

The other night I was out with the boys on Soi 6. Nick was drinking vodkas. Sammie was searching for Ms Perfect, and young Marton was wrestling with an undersized bargirl on the sofa for what seemed to be about an hour. He weighs in at 85 kilos and she couldn’t have been more than [...]

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No Nukes in Iran, but……

December 15, 2007 – 11:30 pm

When Alan Greenspan said that the main reason for the Iraq War was Oil, I responded with a classic American epithat, “BULLSHIT.” The Neo-Cons under the idiotoship of Donald Fieth and Paul Wolfowitz pursued a forward aggressive stance in the Middle East in order to satisfy the religious right’s belief that such a conflict could [...]

By Peter | Posted in War | Comments (0)

Doomsday Compromise in Bali

December 15, 2007 – 11:17 pm

Two weeks of bitter talks in Bali ended with the US compromising on a plan to start decreasing carbon emissions by 2009 in order to deal with worldwide rising temperatures. Only problem is that we may be too late, despite U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declaring, “This is the beginning, not the end.” The jungles of [...]

By Peter | Posted in Environment | Comments (0)