Category Archives: 2010s

GB in Palestine

August 24, 2011 – 8:26 am

“There are no second acts in American lives.” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fatalistic quote on success has been excoriated by critics. They did not have to live through the gauntlet of abusive expectation suffered by the writer after the triumph of THE GREAT GATSBY, considered by many scholars as the most perfect novel in American literature. […]

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30 Seconds to Fame

August 18, 2011 – 6:56 am

The spread of communism terrorized America in the 50s. Joe McCarthy announced that he had a list of government employees working for the Russians. People were ruined by is witch hunt. The infiltrators were few. They worked for both sides. By the 60s our teachers instructed their students to be aware of the conspiratorial tactics […]

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And They’re Off

August 14, 2011 – 9:32 am

Milt Romney, Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Herb Cain flocked to America’s Heartland to compete in the Ames Straw Poll. Iowa has hosted the GOP event since 1979 and the winner has received the party’s presidential nomination 3 out of 5 times. The Hawkeye State […]

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Plastic Plastic Everywhere

August 12, 2011 – 7:27 pm

30 years ago Jomtien Beach was a hidden paradise. The drive from Bangkok took 4-6 hours depending on the tides. The road was flooded twice daily by the coming and going of the sea. The Old Roué of the Orient tells on swimming at dawn with a lovely Thai girl. “Fish leapt from the water. […]

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The Unforgiving

August 6, 2011 – 10:30 pm

The pizza boy and babysitter are icons of pornography with good reason. A well-hung teenage boy with a pizza fits most American women’s fantasy of a cheap fuck, while a sexual encounter with the neighbor’s young daughter is the dream of most suburban men. I had a thing for my babysitter. Addy Manzi was the […]

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