Category Archives: evil

No Silent Night

December 25, 2023 – 9:02 pm

Yesterday the IDF pounded Gaza with bombs and artillery, killing scores of civilians and wounding hundreds. Their national holocaust soul demands retribution for Hamas’ October 7 attack and their revenge has not be an eye for an eye. Not on Yom Kippur. Not on Hannukah. Not on Christmas. Extermination of the Palestiniand has been the […]

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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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KILLING THE RICH

November 27, 2023 – 11:54 am

The Vent de Sol was booked solid. The clientele hailed from the upper echelons of New York’s1%. Table # 4 sitting six people was dominated by Richard Belden. No one in the Madison Avenue bistro had earned more than the 54 year-old investment

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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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