Monthly Archives: December 2023

Hunting Pine Trees 1958

Fir trees lined the sidewalk On Vanderbilt Avenue Clinton Hill Brooklyn. Spruce pines Chopped Up north from New England forests. My homeland. Trees For families and friends To celebrate Christmas Breathing the fragrance of evergreens, As The tree elves Elysaah, Ruth, and Bobby Hock trees and wreaths Working hard Whilst I laze On My yuletide […]

Bomb Them To The Stone Age

Written Mar 22, 2012 On March 18, 1969 President Richard Nixon ordered American B-52s to bomb Cambodia, thus kicking off a deadly air campaign supposedly directed against North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge targets. 540,000 tons of high-ordinance bombs resulted in the deaths of anywhere from 150,000 to 500,000 civilians and countless wounded in the agrarian […]

War Criminal # 1

Written Sep 28, 2016 When I first visited Cambodia in 1998, I arrived at Phnom Penh airport on a comfortable Bangkok Air flight from Bangkok. The previous year the Khmer Rouge had ceased their guerilla war against the government forces and the country was deemed safe for tourism. After landing the plane rolled across the […]

Jill St. John

Written Sep 28, 2016 Jill St. John went out with Henry Kissinger. A short Jewish man with a paunch. A war criminal responsible for the deaths of millions in South East Asia. She must have seen something else in Kissinger, who once said, “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” And someone as evil as Kissinger would […]

Hillary With Her Friends

Written May 13, 2016 Barry Goldwater 1995. She had campaigned for him in 1964. With the war criminal Henry Kissinger. Her old buddy GW. At Donald Trump’s wedding. ps check out bill hand on Mrs. Trump’s hip.