Monthly Archives: July 2012

LOOKALIKE by Peter Nolan Smith

July 19, 2012 – 10:52 am

A four-lane bridge spanned the flooded Mississippi and the Torino sped past heavily loaded semi-trailers creeping up a steep bluff. Davenport, Iowa wasn’t a big city, but it had been even smaller in 1947, when Jack Kerouac had been dropped in the middle of the prairie by a trucker. The sun had set without his […]

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Deep Purple Doing Smoke On The Water LIVE

July 18, 2012 – 3:33 am

Sing Along People

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Jon Lord Deep Purple RIP

July 18, 2012 – 3:04 am

Deep Purple’s Jon Lord passed out of the Here-Now to join friends, family, and fans in the Here-Before, but his music with the premiere heavy metal band in history shall survive in the Here-Beyond for as long as young boys sing the four note motif of SMOKE ON THE WATER. The classically trained pianist was […]

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Good News For Some

July 16, 2012 – 10:07 pm

FDA officials in the US have greenlighted an HIV prevention drug. Studies on Truvada show that the once-a-day pill can reduce the risk of infection by up to 73% if used with common sense and condoms. Medical experts caution against considering this drug to end the scourge of AIDS, citing concerns about creating a drug-resistant […]

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The Amazing Shrinking Palestine

July 16, 2012 – 9:34 pm

Last week an octogenarian Wall Street retiree financed an ad campaign on New York suburban train platforms showing the shrinkage of Palestine. According to the official British Survey of Mandate Palestine, issued in 1945, private ownership of land by non-Jewish Palestinians encompassed 24 million dunams (approximately 90% of Mandate Palestine), while Jewish land ownership was […]

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