Category Archives: evil

We Are Those Closest To Us

July 5, 2012 – 12:25 am

The other day my four year-old son and I were train-spotting on the bridge over the Siracha-Laem Chabang railway. A long freight train passed beneath us. After the caboose disappeared from sight I spit onto the tracks. Fenway followed my lead and spat a gob of drool into the air. He laughed with glee. Like […]

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Short Memories

July 1, 2012 – 10:01 pm

A few weeks ago Barack Obama was excoriated by the right wing press and Polish government for having called the Nazi extermination camps located in Poland ‘Polish death camps’. The president apologized for this gaffe, but few journalists recalled that back in 2008 the Polish foreign minister made the following joke. “Have you heard that […]

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15 Minutes For A Nobody

May 25, 2012 – 10:49 am

In 1968 Warhol wrote that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” for a catalogue of his work in Sweden. Eleven years later Warhol crowed the triumph of his prediction by saying, “My prediction from the sixties finally came true: In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” The statement […]

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One Dead Clown

March 26, 2012 – 7:57 pm

GW Bush’s Vice President got a heart transplant this weekend. The old one had suffered through five coronary failures and Dick Cheney opted to wait over two years for a replacement, since there are too few hearts for too many chests. His doctor says that the new organ should increase the 71 year-old’s survival rate, […]

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How Wicked It Is

February 25, 2012 – 6:20 pm

The nuns at Our Lady of the Foothills daily instructed our class on the dangers of Satan. Our souls were under constant threat from the seduction of Lucifer. The 60s were no time to be young for the pure of heart and GOP candidate Rick Santorum has introduced the suppression of the Devil as a […]

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