Tag Archives: kill the rich

Penang Gone

Sumatra was a lost world in 1990. Tigers prowled the western jungles of Indonesia’s largest island, active volcanoes glowed in the night, and I drank Bintang beer with the ancestors of headhunters on the shore of Lake Toba 1500 meters above the sea and the night air was chilly after months along the equator . […]

KILL THE RICH CHAPTER 2 By Peter Nolan Smith

Two NYPD homicide detectives stood in front of the Vent du Sol. Uniformed officers kept the curious behind the yellow tape. Dead men attract spectators. The rubberneckers weren’t looking for the victim to come back to life, but waited to see if anything else out of the ordinary happened on this quiet Upper East Side […]

KILL THE RICH CHAPTER 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

The Vent de Sol was booked solid. The clientele hailed from the upper echelons of New York’s .0001%. Table # 4 sitting eight people was dominated by a 54 year-old man in an impeccably British tailored suit. No one in the Upper East Side bistro had earned more than the wily investment banker. No one […]

$1 Billion For The Common Man

Karl Marx co-authored THE COMMUNNIST MANIFESTO with the son of capitalist owning a large English Textile factory owner. Frederich Engels was the funnier of the two and once said, “Money is the only thing that can make a beautiful woman think a bald man isn’t bald.” The co-father of Communism was speaking about the rich. […]

Palm Beach Wake

Several years ago friend was invited to the funeral of her ex-husband’s brother. Alice had spent 18 years with her ex. After contemplating the various scenarios, she deigned to send flowers as her representative at the wake. Here’s her email After Bad Bob’s description of the insane weekend with my former husband and in laws, […]