Category Archives: world

Welcome to Palestine

An Israeli soldier has been suspended after video footage showed him hitting a foreign pro-Palestinian activist in the face with his gun during a bicycle rally in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military. This weekend at dinner in Montauk Richie Boy addressed my old lead about the one-state solution for Israel. “Israel […]

Lizards of Satan

Sadly Sara Palin never entered the GOP fray. Back in 2008 jokesters accused her of saying the following; “God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines, […]

Tough Israeli Backpackers

Israeli backpackers were the scourge of the Lonely Planet paths around the world. They argued with shopkeepers in Bali, crammed ten people into a room designed for two, chiseled prices for the cheapest bowl of rice, smoked hash with abandon, and denied any wrongdoing in Palestine. Other travelers avoided them in droves, but they were […]

Crises of Capitalism / David Harvey, economist

What’s Your Number?

The BBC News reported the birth of Baby # 7,000,000,000 in the Philippines. Later in the day they added a calculator to divine where readers should in the scheme of things. Having been born in May of 1952 I ended up the 2,620,399,874th person alive on Earth and the 75,870,745,158th person to have lived since […]