Monthly Archives: May 2012

Maybe If I Was More Barry Than Barack

May 9, 2012 – 9:15 pm

In 1860 three weeks before the presidential election an eleven year old girl wrote this letter to the Republican candidate from Illinois. Hon A B Lincoln Oct. 15, 1860 Dear Sir My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin’s. I am a little girl only eleven years […]

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Anyone But The N……

May 9, 2012 – 8:50 pm

According to the BBC the campaign of President Obama received a jolt from the result of the West Virginia democratic primary with a surprising 41% of the vote going to a Texas convict serving a sentence for extortion. The president has never been popular in border state, which he lost to Hillary Clinton in the […]

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Buff Naked At Black’s Beach

May 9, 2012 – 7:28 pm

In the summer of 1974 I visited Black’s Beach in San Diego, which was the most popular nude beach in the United States. While nudity remains against the law in the city of San Diego, the Torrey Pines State Park has allowed ‘clothing optional’ for sun-worshippers from the Torrey Pines Gliderport north to the steel […]

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BLACK ROSES by Clear Light 1967

May 9, 2012 – 4:17 pm
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BLACK’S BEACH BLUFF by Peter Nolan Smith

May 9, 2012 – 4:03 pm

The next morning I was awoken by the drifting whiff of brewing coffee. I wiggled out of my sleeping bag to pull the bathrobe around my body. The floor of the porch was chilled my bare feet. The summer days started out cold in Southern California. The flower fields around the bungalow were obscured by […]

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