Category Archives: law

NO SWIMMING ALLOWED

September 7, 2011 – 10:34 am

Ten years ago September 9 posted a sultry warm day for a lingering summer. My friend Alia had her Porsche Boxer waiting at the Newark Customs. The convertible had just made a trans-Atlantic voyage. She asked for company to pick up the two-seater and I agreed on the stipulation that we drove north along the [...]

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The 6th Commandment in Pattaya

August 5, 2011 – 11:40 pm

The religious right in America have sought to increase the influence of God on the government by trying to place the 10 Commandments in various courthouses and legislature. While I am not a follower of the bearded Jehovah in the flowing muumuu, I have nothing against erection of the twin tablets of NO this and [...]

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Death Song Thailand

July 22, 2011 – 11:21 am

Norman Mailer wrote his 1979 Pulitzer-winning EXECUTIONER’S SONG about Gary Gilmore’s 1977 execution by the State of Utah. His crime. A 1976 murder spreed. Method of death; shooting squad or noose. He opted for the shooting squad rather than the noose. Gilmore refused any reprieve from his fate. “Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure [...]

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Where’s Whitey?

May 28, 2011 – 12:39 pm

The World’s Top Ten Wanted Fugitives took two hits this past month. # 1 Osama Bin laden was erased by an executive order from President Barack Hussein Obama. Two bullets to the head and a burial at sea. Secondly the Balkan War criminal Gen. Ratko Mladic was arrested by black-clad security forces in a small [...]

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7 Million and Counting

October 9, 2010 – 11:11 pm

Charles Manson has been incarcerated in the California penal system since 1969 for the murders at the Sharon Tate home along with several other mass murder punctuating the end of the Summer of Love. The ex-convict was never proved to have shot any of the victims, yet the LA DA was able to convince a [...]

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