Category Archives: Florida

Swat Signs Of Paranoia

August 11, 2014 – 1:04 pm

My good friend from Palm Beach woke this morning to a military police invasion. “A convoy of fire trucks, police and EMTs came racing by my house and stopped by the beach access. A dozen or more heavily suited and oxygen equipped men trudged down the jungle path to a sweltering and empty beach. Thinking […]

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More Ludes

October 9, 2013 – 11:20 am

From a female friend in Palm Beach; I remember ‘ludes well. I have a story about thinking I had a brain tumor and/or an allergy to rum because I kept passing out after I had a couple of daiquiris on a boat that was in harbor and coincidentally had very good drugs. I’d wake up […]

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OFF SEASON by Peter Nolan Smith

September 29, 2013 – 6:24 pm

In late-April of 2008 I left Thailand after a ten-year stay. My family accompanied to the sprawling Bangkok airport. happy tourists were heading home from vacations. I kissed my children good-bye and hid the tears by burying my head in Mam’s neck. My dog howled, as I got on the airport bus. Mam’s belly was […]

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Dead Men Don’t Say Shit

July 14, 2013 – 10:01 am

Last year a Florida woman who fired warning shots against her allegedly abusive husband has been sentenced to 20 years in prison according to CBS News. The judge ignored her request for a Stand Your Ground defense, citing that 5’2″ Ms. Marissa Alexander had left the house to get her pistol and then returned to […]

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Innocence or Dead In Florida

July 14, 2013 – 9:01 am

Last night in Florida a six-person jury found George Zimmerman innocent of a murder charge, stemming from the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin of February 26, 2012. The 17 year-old black boy in a hoodie was walking back to the house of his father’s fiancee in a gated community after purchasing Skittles and an Ice […]

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