Category Archives: Crime

Few Are Chosen, Many Are Taken

Paris Hilton recently double-hit the gossip headlines with stops for reefer in South Africa and Corsica. The former was on suspicion on marijuana possession during the Netherlands-Brazil World Cup. The hosts apologized for the incident. Someone else was smoking the weed. The blonde heiress was busted after French drug dogs sniffed out a gram of […]

Kill a Jew Day

Someone put ‘Kill a Jew Day’ on Facebook. People are outraged by promo KILL A JEW DAY Friday, July 9, 2010 12:00am – 11:30pm Everywhere Krystalnacht redux. The 2nd Coming? Indeed the rumors of Hitler’s escape from the Berlin bunker are legion. George Steiner wrote THE LAST PORTAGE OF AH about an Israeli intelligence squad […]

FIFA Blind Justice

The course of the 1982 World Cup detoured off the tracks for Team England when Diego Maradona scored Argentina’s first goal thanks to a blatant hand ball. The referee ‘missed’ the play and thereafter the score has been called ‘the Hand of God’. A winning player said, “In 1986, winning that game against England was […]

Martha Stewart to the Rescue

Uncle Carmine was born on the Lower East Side. His wife Jane hailed from Maine. She called Cumberland Falls the last place God created. It’s a good 10 hours drive from East 11th Street. Carmine’s death wish was to be buried overlooking Schoonic Bay on Columbus Day. Jane’s old man gave up the ghost in […]

TOUGH GUY by A L Harlow

I met Big Al in 2002 at Diamond A Go Go. An ex-air force tech said his friend was writing a book. Having written four unpublished novels I subscribe to the old Woody Allen adage. “Everyone has a book in them. Best everyone keep it in them too.” But I also agreed help his fiend, […]