Monthly Archives: October 2008

No More Manny

October 2, 2008 – 1:34 pm

Manny Ramirez is happy in LA. My friends in New York cannot understand how the Red Sox let the future Hall of Famer go. It was those nasty long hairs in the shower room. Go Bosox.

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Sex Tycoon for Governor

October 2, 2008 – 1:33 pm

Elliot Spitzer was ousted from his elected position as NY State governor upon the disclosure that the ex-DA had been cavorting with $4000/night hookers. He had campaigned on being Mr. Clean, going so far as to prosecute Wall St. executives for visiting brothels. No one bothered to save this hypocrite. Conversely Chuwit Kamolvisit Bangkok’s one-time […]

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Bangkok Gay Club Collapse

October 2, 2008 – 1:32 pm

In 1985 I worked at La Nouvelle Reve off the Grand Boulevard in Paris. The interior was tres kitsch with red tables lit by royalist dioramas. Our clientele hailed from the well-heeled 16th arrondisement. Most of our guests aspired to nobility, but regicide had died out in France with the decapitation of Louis XVII. Terrorists […]

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Map of Misery USA

October 1, 2008 – 11:08 am

CLICK TO ENLARGE When I was driving through Florida, I was astounded by the number of ‘for sale’ signs throughout the state. Very few in Palm Beach though. However the real winner for real estate disaster is California with Salinas winning thanks to over 40% of re-financed mortgages. Opps. I was speaking to my real […]

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Gimme Gimme

October 1, 2008 – 10:35 am

My good friend Keith Raywood sent this letter from Progressive Review (www.prorev.com) Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need […]

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