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With My Bare Hands – Anthony Bourdain

December 3, 2023 – 11:13 am

I have always admired Anthony Bourdain, but never more than when he wrote in A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that […]

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Bomb Them To The Stone Age

December 1, 2023 – 2:43 pm

Written Mar 22, 2012 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 […]

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Times of Nothing – BET ON CRAZY

November 5, 2023 – 11:08 am

Thanks to Daylight Savings Time sunset will come an hour earlier this evening. I hate the winter shift of an hour. Several years ago I was working at a diamond store off 5th Avenue. A good address. Not 47th Street. Dusk was always a little scary from November to March and one afternoon I received […]

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Damn Daylight Savings Time

November 5, 2023 – 11:01 am

“Time is part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects. Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently […]

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Guilty As Charged

May 12, 2023 – 10:44 am

Two days ago a New York City jury of six men and three women found Donald Trump guilty of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll as well as publicly defaming her character. He was absolved of rape and assault by the jury. The GOP 2024 presidential candidate was not assigned any jail time, as this was […]

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