Monthly Archives: September 2008

Same Old Faces

September 21, 2008 – 5:31 pm

I arrived in Paris in 1982. My job was physionomiste at the Bains-Douches. I knew no one in Paris. None of the stars. None of the trandy people. No one. The patron said it didn’t matter.”You have an eye for people. Who is fun and who is not.” That eye didn’t prevent me from refusing […]

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The Panic of 2008

September 21, 2008 – 5:30 pm

A good leader has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others. This past week the New York Stock exchange gave investors the frights with a free-fall of 500 points on Monday. President GW Bush responded to the closure of two of America’s largest investment firms with an admission to the press […]

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MAYBE TOMORROW Chapter 6 by Peter Nolan Smith

September 21, 2008 – 9:06 am

VI Johnny picked the letter up from the sidewalk. He read the four lines in less than two seconds. Cheri’s words snuffed out any probability of a rekindled romance and the guitarist stuffed the terse dismissal into his pocket. He trailed the hippie down the street at a distance. Plenty of men had shambled from […]

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3-Pointers from Obama

September 21, 2008 – 9:01 am

I’m in Upstate New York. 120 miles from the Canadian border. The population is 100% white. This is not Manhattan and I ask the people at stores, gas stations, and bars, if they’re voting for Obama. Most men glared at me, as if I had shit in their beer. They are most certainly voting for […]

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Corporate Fascism In America

September 21, 2008 – 8:52 am

For years my good friend Ty Spaulding has been moaning about corporate welfare; subsidies to agriculture giants, tax credits for oil companies, budget packages for defense contractors. He’s a fiscal libertarian and thinks these companies should fly under their own strength or crash beneath the weight of their failures. “This is supposed to be a […]

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