Category Archives: evil

The Fairy Village of MackWorth Island

May 14, 2012 – 1:41 pm

Last weekend I traveled north to Maine with my sister and her husband. On Sunday he and I installed the dock in Watchic Pond. The air temperature was 70 and the water was a cool 60. The entire operation lasted an hour and neither of us complained about the cold. We even celebrated the completion [...]

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Miss Khmer Rouge

May 4, 2012 – 6:56 pm

The Khmer Rouge believed was the only way to reincarnate the pureness of Cambodian society was to that wiping the slate clean in Year Zero. In order to achieve this tabla rasa the new regime exiled the people from the old colonial cities to re-education camps in the rice fields and jungles. The cadre shut [...]

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ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION By Peter Nolan Smith

April 4, 2012 – 5:13 pm

John Guare in his play SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION contended that everyone in the world was connected to everyone in the world by six people. Sometimes even less. My sister-in-law had worked at the CIA for George Bush, whose father met Hitler, so I’m connected to Der Fuhrer by four degrees of separation. The distance [...]

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One Dead Clown

March 26, 2012 – 7:57 pm

GW Bush’s Vice President got a heart transplant this weekend. The old one had suffered through five coronary failures and Dick Cheney opted to wait over two years for a replacement, since there are too few hearts for too many chests. His doctor says that the new organ should increase the 71 year-old’s survival rate, [...]

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Bomb Them To The Stone Age

March 22, 2012 – 2:43 pm

On March 18, 1969 President Richard Nixon ordered American B-52s to bomb Cambodia, thus kicking off a deadly air campaign supposedly directed against North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge targets. 540,000 tons of high-ordinance bombs resulted in the deaths of anywhere from 150,000 to 500,000 civilians and countless wounded in the agrarian populace. Operation Menu lasted [...]

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