Monthly Archives: November 2011

Fuck Off Mr. Bloomberg

November 4, 2011 – 8:55 am

The mayor of New York was born several months after Pearl Harbor. He is ten years older than me. His net worth is around $19 billion dollars making him the 30th wealthiest man in the world. It’s amazing what a difference those ten years make for one’s fortune. Wikipedia has listed Bloomberg as a business […]

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Fried Rat A La Ban Nok

November 4, 2011 – 5:02 am

Last January I returned to Thailand to celebrate my daughter’s birthday. Ban-nok was cold that time of year and one night my ex-wife’s brother-in-law, his friends, and I drank rice whiskey around a blazing bonfire. Halfway through the second bottle of lao-khao a young man entered the circle of light. A long small-bore rifle rested […]

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Man’s Best Friend

November 3, 2011 – 10:46 am

Why Some Men Have Dogs And Not Wives: 1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you. 2. Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s name. 3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor. 4. A dog’s parents never visit. 5. […]

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Robot Rules Of Love

November 2, 2011 – 10:47 am

The Laws of Robotics were written by science fiction author Isaac Asimov in his story I ROBOT. 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict […]

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The Drug Of The Right

November 2, 2011 – 9:59 am

When I was in high school in the late-60s, I steadfastly refused marijuana on the grounds that it was illegal by law. A good friend was working in a drug store. We did reds, whites, and Ludes. They were FDA-approved drugs. My mindset was not much different from the present population of America addicted to […]

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