Category Archives: Crime

Norway Retirement Plan

March 7, 2010 – 8:15 pm

My kids are young. I have no pension, so I will be working until I’m at least 75. After that I’m going to Norway and robbing a bank. Several if necessary. As many as it takes before the police arrest me and the courts sentence me to life imprisonment in one of their IKEA-furnished cell. […]

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Karl Rove’s Infallibility

March 3, 2010 – 8:11 pm

History is written by the victors and for the greater part of the 21st Century the GOP claimed the 2003 invasion of Iraq to be a pivotal act to establishing modern rule in the Mideast, however that utopian vision seems to be metamorphorsizing into a mirage, for even the eminence gris of the last presidency […]

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What Price Justice – Thailand

February 27, 2010 – 1:10 pm

The Thai High Court has denied reports that the principal judges were offered a 5 billion baht bribe or sin bon to rule in favor of ex-PM Thaksin on whether his fortune should be confiscated by the Supreme Court. Who wants to be a billionaire? Five of the nine judges in the court denied accepting […]

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Soviet Emigre Is Found Slain 1983

February 23, 2010 – 7:30 pm

Last week a Russian producer contacted me to write a screenplay about New York nightlife in the late-70s and early-80s. He had read IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA my story about the Continental and thought I could incorporate the plot of Russian gangsters running an after-hour club in Chelsea. Crooked cops, Russian mobsters, FBI informers, my […]

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Pattaya GO-GO Deadline 2/18

February 13, 2010 – 8:10 pm

Diamonds sales were non-existent during the run-up to Valentine’s Day. At least by the masses. They were flat broke. Not everyone was that bad off. Most everyone, but the wealthy were splurging on big ticket items. 6-figure purchases of watches, diamonds, and jewelry. The good items were still rolling for Wall Street. None of these […]

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