Category Archives: Crime

Phillie Taser Tag

May 4, 2010 – 1:28 pm

The baseball movie FEVER PITCH reaches its climax with the heroine Drew Barrymore running across the field at Fenway Park to tell her Red Sox-obessed boyfriend that he should sell his season tickets. If she had attempted the same stunt in Phillie Stadium, her character might have suffered a worst fate than being hauled off […]

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GW Bush Rebound

May 4, 2010 – 12:42 pm

GW Bush has been out of office for over a year. We are still at war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan as well as several other mideastern countries. His ‘sound economy’ resulted in staggering federal deficits and this tax cut for the rich produced a chasmic gap of wealth between the classes. The environment suffered […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN – CHAPTER 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

May 2, 2010 – 10:52 am

ONE A scurry of claws scratched across the damp basement floor. The woman on the battered chair lifted her black stiletto heels in horror, but rats were the least of her problems. This afternoon her lover had suggested a rendezvous in Hamburg’s harbor district. She arrived in anticipation of a sordid indiscretion. Two men were […]

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F for Fake and Fucked

April 27, 2010 – 7:02 pm

Computers have created impassable hurdles for outlaws and this week Thai Immigration officials arrested a suspected 21-year-old British national on her departure at Suvarnabhumi Airport. Her travel document was awash with errors such as the misspelling of Suvarnabhumi and departures from said airport prior to its opening. Police have detained the young lady with a […]

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The Quiet Wall of Blue

March 12, 2010 – 10:30 pm

The police don’t have a good reputation anywhere in the world. The Brits call their bobbies ‘the filth’, the Thai police are known as ‘tam-luat’ or ‘make blood’, and Americans refer to the cops as ‘pigs, Man, or heat’. Expletives usually accompanied both the real and slang words for law enforcement officers. The police are […]

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