Category Archives: Crime

THIEF OF TIME by Peter Nolan Smith

November 13, 2024 – 8:36 pm

Published on: Mar 23, 2011 My first watch was a Timex bought by my father for my fourteenth birthday. I wore that timepiece throughout high school and college. It disappeared in the mid-70s. Lost, but not stolen. I went without a watch for the reminder of the decade. Punks in the East Village had no […]

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A Long Memory

October 20, 2024 – 6:05 am

Published Dec 5, 2011 Degenerate Art had been denounced by the Nazis as un-German ie Jewish or Bolshevist. Josef Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda, organized an exhibition of Entartete Kunst in 1937. The SS acted as curators for the show by confiscating the works of modern artists from museums and private collections. The assembled […]

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Guilty Times 34 – Trump

June 6, 2024 – 10:17 am

Last week a New York jury found the Orange Messiah guilty, issuing thirty-four convictions stemming from Trump’s decision to not pay the agreed sum of $120000 to buy Stormy Daniels silence. At his July 12th sentencing he will appeal the verdicts. If sentenced as a first offender he will probably get community service. He will […]

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Myrtle and Broadway – Axis of Axis

May 9, 2024 – 9:22 am

Myrtle and Broadway under the elevated J and M trains ranked as the scivviest intersection in Brooklyn. During COVID the triangular corner had been colonized by a cult of Meth heads, K2 fiends, Oxy zombies devoted to a collective intoxication. A ragged woman set up shop selling drugs from her filthy encampment under the subway […]

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Duch Choi Cha’ kai Anh

April 11, 2024 – 6:29 am

Written on Jun 11, 2017 In 1975 the Khmer Rouge converted the Tuol Svay Prey High School on the outskirts of Phnom Penh into the murderous Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison. An estimated 17,000 prisoners had been subjected to the following code of behavior enforced by its administrator Comrade Duch or Kang Kek Iew and […]

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