Category Archives: Rich

Victory For the Filthy Rich

August 1, 2011 – 11:10 pm

Hollywood movies love car chases in parking garages, gun ballets, Barbie and Ken love scenes, and ticking clock of doom. The suits in power can produce a film without them. They have no grasp on reality, but people sit in theaters to escape their lives and eat popcorn. Art tends to imitate life and vice […]

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The Love of a Cousin

June 1, 2011 – 4:28 pm

Friday night the Boston Bruins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning and my old hometown hockey team advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 20 years. The manager of Mullanes is from Plymouth. I was sitting with two Bruins fans. We toasted the memory of Bobby Orr. His team of 1972 was […]

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AMAZING STOPOVER

March 7, 2011 – 9:20 pm

Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has stressed to the the Tourism Authority of Thailand or TAT that the private investors should shift their investment from budget travelers from Europe and the USA to the 1st-class tourists from the upper-class of the wealthy class. Previous PMs have spoken the same words for the last 20 years […]

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Worth Avenue Past Midnight

February 19, 2011 – 8:30 am

Worth Avenue is the richest shopping street on the East Coast of Florida if not America. The thoroughfare runs between the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Worth. The litany of high-end stores along the four blocks west of South County Road read like a pantheon of luxury. Worshipers of wealth can shed their riches at Giorgio […]

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Surrender to the Rich

December 9, 2010 – 8:10 am

The chasm between the very rich and the poor in the USA was once separated by the middle class. The poor could rise to that status, but no one could become very rich, for the masses are mostly denied the three ways to get rich; birth, marriage, or theft. Birth is strictly a gene lottery. […]

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